Post 5. But Whenever Monday Comes....

Day 1 of the Naturally Slim Program!!! So I generally had the right idea when I was trying to eat tediously slow, but it's more than that. It's actually being all weird and making out with your food that  makes the most difference. (Okay, that's a weird way to put it, but it's a lot of making sure you take the TIME to taste your food.) 

So I was so anxious to get started with the program that the second that the materials arrived at my apartment, I ripped open the box like a kid on Christmas morning. OOOOOOOO, a pedometer!! A TAPE MEASURE!! THANKS, IT'S WHAT I'VE ALWAYS WANTED!! A FOOD JOURNAL?! Oh boy! All my most private (foods?) will go in here! Peanuts and Pringles?? They even feed us! Oh boy! 

So then, of course, I made sure to record my weight and measurements (not the EXACT same day, but within a few days) because I wanted to see progress. Awesome! 

I just made a table in Excel to make this a bit more plug-and-play than writing it (though I'm going to write it anyway, but for the purposes of this blog, I'll have an electronic copy to copy-pasta here. 

 So currently, it's not monumental. But I've only just begun, so it's alright to not have 20 pounds gone! Plus it's only been 6 days (though it feels like it's been foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr). I missed another day of working out, but as it said in the video, working out doesn't have to be rigorous, especially since it causes your body to want to hold onto fat/calories/yadayadayada.

I've never licked a chip quite like I did in the exercise within the video. It kind of made me analyze my chicken parm/mexican-dish-like-thingie a little differently.... I cut a small piece of chicken with each bite, and when I put it in my mouth, I let it linger on my tongue. It's crazy how things taste when you just allow yourself to taste them. Like... tasting the richness of the tomato sauce that I choose for the chicken dish was great... the little bit of tang that comes with tomato products... mmm. And I also started this clean-eating challenge today, too... so hopefully, I can couple the two into an effective lifestyle change. 

One of the (many) things that I learned about the method with the Naturally Slim program is that the "hunger savers" are not synonymous with "snacks" and... wait for it... "snacks" don't exist in the plan. Essentially, if you eat when you're not hungry, you create fat. So then... I guess "hunger savers" replace "snacks." They're for when you're at the appropriate level of hunger that you should eat a meal, but you can't because of something that prevents you from eating a meal... that might be that you've got dinner plans that don't coincide well with your natural hunger patterns. You eat either a smaller meal or a "hunger saver" when you would NORMALLY eat a meal to allow yourself to be hungry earlier. 

I think that this program has the right ideas. It's also key to drink this solution that is called "H2Orange" which is 1 part OJ to 7 parts water. Essentially, extremely watered-down OJ. Or, water with a splash of OJ (since watered-down has such a negative connotation.) It's supposed to work on blood sugar AND hydration, two of the reasons people feel falsely hungry. 

I talk like I'm an expert or something. But I'm not. I'm just trying to get this blog down so that I can look back on it and be reminded of the principles of each week. 

Meals for the day?
Breakfast: I drank a little bit of milk (which I learned this evening is a no-no of the program because of its natural sugars) and I had some coffee (with aforementioned milk, which is okay as an additive to coffee, but not as a standalone drink) and sugar (which I learned is another no-no for the first three weeks of the program, so I'll be switching to Stevia from here on out) but I didn't have anything really... food-like for breakfast. 

Lunch: I brought some leftover pot roast with carrots and potatoes from dinner last night. mmmmm... I ate it before I really watched the video for the NS program, so I tried to savor it, but now that I've watched the video, I know HOW to savor it. I finished it off with a yogurt (which I found out, due to its sugars, is another no-no of the program... as well as no DIET foods, which it was a diet food.... way to go Patricia!! All the no-nos today!)

Dinner: So I watched the video as I ate dinner. My dinner consisted of the peanuts I ate with the video exercise (as well as the Pringles) and then a lovely chicken breast smothered in Italian Sausage pasta sauce and some Mexican blend Taco-flavoured shredded cheese... only a little breast, it wasn't a lot of food. Tasty and tiny. Currently, I think that I need to get this tiny container of Pringles out of my face, or I'll snack (A-HA!) on them all! 

I think I'll finish watching this episode of Cops (guilty pleasure of my father's, and now of mine!! haha!!) and then attempt to crawl into bed with my love. Maybe with this program, I'll be able to commit to go to sleep when he does. 


xo


Mrs. Scurtu