If You Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail

It has been four weeks since I started seeing my nutritionist. I never thought I could cook so much, eat so much, and make as many freaking salads as I have in four weeks. I have to say...it has been an overhaul of the way I look at food.  Me, the lifetime Weight Watchers member and diet everything eater just found out everything I was doing...is well...completely wrong.  Case an point...a woman who is no taller than 5'1 has lost over 7 pounds in 4 weeks. UNHEARD OF! On previous diets it took be at least two months if not more to lose that kind of weight.

So here starts my real journey, of ups, downs, anger, and fulfillment. Hunger, full bellies, and way to much cooking. And I know you are all wondering...gluten free? Dairy free? Sugar free? Wheat free? What is this miracle diet?

Whole foods. No white flour. Little to no refined sugars. Portion control. No artificial anything and foods should have 5 ingredients or less in them.  In terms of my health, I have upped natural anti-inflammatory foods such as veggies, cinnamon, nuts, flaxseed, olive oil and green tea and eliminated inflammatory foods such as artificial sweeteners, preservatives, and white flour.

So wait...you eat REAL food and lose weight? Foods like nuts, grains, butter, oils, meats, and you lose weight? DUH!

Let me take  you through my first realization that what I have been doing was totally wrong compared to my new routine:

Sample Day Pre-Nutritionist with commentary of how terrible this is

Breakfast
Breakfast Shake (read the back of that bad boy...I can't pronounce anything but water!)
Banana
Medium Brown Sugar cinnamon Coffee with half and half and 1 splenda (over 350 calories of wrong plus some deadly chemicals on top)
Snack
Yoplech Greek Yogurt (read the labels of some of those, high fructose corn syrup should not be an ingredient)

Lunch
Turkey on Whole Wheat bread with munster cheese and mustard (ok, this is fine but you can get a better dairy somewhere else)
Salad with fat free Italian dressing (again, read the back...nothing but chemicals for miles)

Snack
apple
Whatever daycare is snacking on/small cup of jelly beans from my bosses office (aka tons of refined sugar, white flour, and unnecessary carbs)

Dinner
some sort of protein sautéed in a sauce that comes from a package with minute rice and microwaved veggies (the sauce...the source of evil here)

Snack
whatever carb I can shove into my mouth--specifically those evil pretzel crisps in crazy flavors.

ummm...Water?? what's water? I usually nursed my coffee well through 3:30pm.  Maybe 2-3 glasses of water at max.

And now...

Breakfast
Organic Steel Cut Oatmeal made stovetop with either fresh apples or all natural peanut butter
Green Tea

Snack
Greek Yogurt with ingredients I can pronounce
Banana
2 TBSP nuts

Lunch
Spinach Salad with Chic Peas, grilled Chicken, topped with balsamic vinegar and olive oil
Homemade veggie soup with tons of veggies

Snack
Apple
Carrots and hummus

Dinner
Grilled Chicken
Roasted veggies and potatoes

Snack
All natural coffee yogurt
Grapefruit

64oz of water at a minimum each day

I'm not going to lie here...I cook a lot, I prep a lot, and it takes a lot out of me.  Just last night I nearly had a meltdown (tom would probably say an actual meltdown) when I finally got home to cook and left my ingredients in the car...as I got to the top of the stairs. But...I've never felt better...the pain is a work in progress but nothing changes overnight. I'm dedicated to giving this lifestyle a fair trial.

So here it is people...I'm committing 6 months...6 months of no cheating, no stretching the truth or writing lies in my tracker, and realizing that if I don't put time and effort into what I'm putting into my body, the title of this blog will actually be true, I will be a grandma indefinitely.

Coming soon...recipes, after recipes, and some hip pain :)