We're almost done. Over the past few weeks we've been able to maintain our weight within 2 pounds of our set weight....when we've gone over that 2 pound limit (Easter for example) we know exactly what to do to bring it down within the proper range too. We've started to reintroduce some foods that were an absolute no-no during this diet as of last Friday. So far we have found that flour tortillas (I had a wrap with ham, turkey, lettuce, onion, tomato) and hubby with steak fajita do not affect us at all for weight gain. One night I decided to try making some homemade doritos which called for corn tortillas...we both ended up gaining 1 pound the day after eating those and the rest of the meals we were careful to be very strict in the diet and the calories were where they needed to be for the whole day overall. So....corn tortillas are an issue we need to watch. The other item we tried was white potatoes in the form of hash browns (prepackaged and preshaped) with breakfast. Wow....only having one hash brown I literally felt like garbage the entire rest of the day. The potatoes sat heavy in the stomach for hours and did not play nice with the rest of the g.i. tract either. When we eat foods that at "better" for you...you can almost feel your body working to break it down and any feeling of being overfull disappears within a few minutes leaving you just satisfied. You don't feel bloated, you don't feel like you've horribly overeaten, you just feel full and satisfied. Potatoes in any form are not our friend anymore. We've both decided to kick them to the curb forever....which is a great thing because any cravings we had for potato chips just turns the stomach now. Tomorrow we'll be introducing pepperoni back into the diet as I'll be making homemade pizza using a cauliflower pizza crust and adding homemade pizza sauce, green pepper, red pepper, onions with the pepperoni. The only no-no food is the pepperoni as it has....you guessed it....dextrose (sugar) in it.
So many prepackaged foods have sugar it's absolutely horrible. They hide the name so it doesn't make you believe it's sugar but it's typically easy to spot now that we know what to look for. By avoiding as much pre-packaged, pre-made foods as possible we'll be able to limit that sugar and eat the calories and carbs that our bodies can easily breakdown and process. Next up....and something we are looking forward to.....the slow but steady weight loss to finish up losing the last of the weight we both want to lose by the end of the year doing it 0.5-1 pound a week and doing it day by day making sure we achieve our goal.
