Day 20 - Plateau Broken

We did the steak plateau breaker yesterday.  No lunch and had a steak dinner with an organic apple. First of all, by the time dinner came around we were both ravenous.  That dry pasta in the pantry was looking mighty fine about 5:30 pm.  We did the right thing though and we ate dinner (about 6 pm). A beautiful med-rare steak and a perfectly ripened apple that was almost as sweet as candy. They tell you in the program outline that the plateau may not break for up to two days and you need to be patient if that happens....our plateaus though broke over night.  Both of us back on the scale this morning with both of us losing another 2 pounds. We're back on the scheduled food today.  That feeling of being discouraged at a plateau did not appear with this program.  Yes, we hit one but at least we were given the knowledge of how to break it without any struggle.

One of the things in this plan is that you really need to not drink alcohol.  Hubby is on the full blown plan with all the supplements and doctor visits and food.  I on the other hand am just doing the food. Not that we drink a ton anyway but we do go out on Wednesday nights typically and meet up with one of our friends and then usually we'll go out on Friday night to one of our local watering holes. He has not had any alcohol at all for the past twenty days....I on the other hand will still have a beer or if at my in-laws house will have that Manhattan or Gimlet before dinner.  One of the changes this diet has created that could be dangerous.....drinking one-third of a Manhattan will now get me tipsy (I used to have to be starting my 2nd one to make me feel like that before this diet) and also now just two beers will do the same. It's not that gradual march towards feeling it either. With a higher metabolism my body is processing the alcohol faster and it's a wham in your face, here you go scenario.  Hubby is wondering what it will be like for him as he will not have any alcohol for another two weeks until we travel up to Atlanta to the Hops in the Hangar event at the Delta Museum.  We both don't want to screw up the diet but we've had these tickets since well before even thinking about starting the Nutrimost program and we both love taste testing all the different craft beers.  At least hubby goes for the lighter beers, most often with some type of fruit (he loves a good Steigl Radler or Cigar City Florida Cracker any time) whereas I enjoy more of the porters, stouts, and ales.  It will be interesting to see exactly what will happen and if it knocks us off schedule for a day or two at least we now have a better understanding of the foods we need to eat to get it right back on track.