Losing my diet virginity, one cabbage-leaf at a time.

[pure_doxyk]

So, I’m on my very first ever actual calorie-restriction diet.  This is Day Two.

I’ve had more fun.

However, I probably also never have actually eaten this healthily, if health can be measured in quantities of raw vegetables.

Anybody could know why I did it, I imagine…three years of regular, increasingly athletic exercise, and I’m in the best shape

Comments

Re: food ideas

[pure_doxyk]

Well...I don't know what purpose the suffering itself has as far as weight-loss, unless it's to get through the other side of it so that you can maintain a lighter diet without suffering for it. (Much like going through days or weeks of sleep-dep so you can get used to a restricted sleeping schedule like Uberman.) One thing that kept me away from diets for so long WAS the fact that there seems to be an element, stated or just understood, in most diets that the dieter deserves to feel bad about needing to diet. And it's not that I don't; it's that I already blame myself and think about how I don't like my body *too much*; I don't need any program or shit adding onto that.

How long did they tell you to keep up 800 cal? I know usually you do the really extreme cut for a month or something, and then step back up to a reasonable level. Or sometimes they have you alternate; my mom-in-law lost 100lbs once on a diet that was something like 800 one day, 1200 the next, 1000 the next, or something (can't remember exactly, but I could ask).

My sister-in-law just cut down to about 1200, but with NO fudging, and it worked wonders -- 115 lbs down the drain. But she really was overweight from eating too much (as I suspect I might be), so that's all it took.