Reverend Ken's Blog: Day 12, Post 159

Goal Weight: 188 pounds

Today's Weight: 201.4 lbs
Yesterday's Weight: 200.6 lbs
Net Loss/Gain: + 0.8 lbs

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Do not focus on weight. Do not focus on weight. Do not focus on weight...

Focus on: Tomorrow's carb-load meal, and the diet going forward.

Today is my last full day of induction. Tomorrow, I will eat an ordinary induction breakfast and lunch(es), and then at the last meal of the day, it is carb-load time. In the book whose plan I am following, carb-load meals are not the same as meals in anything-goes cheat days as in the Slow-Carb Diet, because they are high-carb, low-fat and low-protein.

I will see how this first one goes. I may make it a 2-meal-a-week total cheat, as opposed to low-fat, low-protein carb load meals. This has worked in the past.

Wednesday and Saturday nights are carb-load nights. The things I am considering are 'orthodox' carb load nights, full-on cheat nights, or a middle strategy between this diet and SCD, where instead of two carb-load nights I go back to one cheat day per week. Like I said, though, tomorrow night will be a 'standard' carb-load meal, with veggies, starch and dessert.

Beginning Sunday, I will be on the 'regular' plan, which is carb decadent when compared to induction. Up to 60 g (three times the induction limit) per day! Whee, doggies, Jethro!

I know I will dramatically increase my vegetable consumption. I will probably start the day with an coconut milk-egg-kale-blueberry smoothie, maybe with added chia or hemp seeds. I expect to continue my salads for lunch (the carbs in the salad greens don't even count), with my homemade vinaigrette dressings and/or mayonnaise. Nuts will typically stay in for late lunch/snacks, and dinner will be meat/fish/poultry/eggs and cooked vegetables. I might add a little quinoa - 1/2-C cooked, max - to dinners as well - quinoa is a seed, not a grain, and has an excellent nutrition profile. There are too many carbs for more than a little, definitely to many for induction, but there's room for a little with dinner, now and then.

Late snacks? The jury is still out, because two things occur to me: Cheese may not be a good option, except in very small quantities. I have had some odd results eating 'normal' or large quantities of cheese as a late-night snack. I am thinking more along the lines of nut butters - but they and cheese both have an 'addictive' quality that makes me over-indulge.

Right now, I'm just thinking about all the options. I probably won't make any conclusions for a while, and we will see how the 'orthodox' version of the plan with two cab-load nights works.At least, in the short term.

Food Log

Breakfast