Your Future is So Bright- Ya Gotta Wear Shades

OK Here we are on the back side of week 2 and the good reports are starting to come in. Many of those who are following the plan are beginning to feel your body tell you how much it loves the green you are giving it. Several have reported that appetite suppression is now noticeable. Some have lost 2-3 lbs.

Well this is just the tip of the iceberg, there is so much more good news coming your way so you better get on your sunglasses.

If you are consistently following the plan and you haven't had less appetite yet, please just be patient. I would guesstimate by Sunday you are going to be ready to hit week 3 in militant fashion.

It is important that you are cutting carbs only when you can do so and not be hungry... I don't want you to feel like you have to starve yourself to make it happen. I also must make it very clear that I do NOT want you to skip breakfast to try to cut carbs. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day as it sets your metabolism. I also don't want you to be skipping your snacks either. It is important to try to keep a fairly level blood sugar through the day and your snacks play an important role in that. Its going to be those 2-3 carb meals that are going be golden for you. Ladies I want you to know that even if you are doing 4 carb meals, you are still going to loose weight. Men like wise @5.

We really have covered a lot of territory since the inception of the blog. You are learning how to eat for the rest of your life. We have established the Q.A. benchmarks and we are only on week 2!

Our goals for weeks 3 and 4 are going to be about making a journal of what you are eating for each of your meals and your snacks. Learning to be within your carb budget and learning how and when to break the budget to down side. We will be continuing to learn about carb cutting shortcuts that can easily put you in negative carb territory. We are also going to start to work implementing an exercise program if you are not already working out.

Next I would like to talk about the drinks part. This is another biggie!! Regular Pop is chalked full of sugar hence it is also chalk full of carbs, so we really want to work on reducing this food that doesn't do much to make you feel full, and makes your hips and waist swell like there is no tomorrow. Sports drinks like regular Gatorade are not very friendly to you either. A very good brain engaged strategy is to cut back on these foods, and here is how you do it... if you normally drink a 16-32 oz pop, drink 16 oz of H2O first then drink 2-4 oz of pop and be happy that you had a taste of it, but didn't tank up on it. Especially after you have worked out and you are soooooooo thirsty. Drink lot-so-water 1st then finish off with 1/3 of that Gatorade bottle. Your carb savings will help you to keep the advantage of that workout you invested in to its fullest.

I am also not too keen about you drinking a bunch of diet pop. I know its carb friendly but there has been research done that people who drink diet drinks tend to actually be more obese than the general population. They are not absolutely sure why, but speculation is that folks think they are doing so good by drinking diet that they just throw caution to wind when eating everything else because they deserve it for drinking diet. The other issue is that there is a lot of sucralose or splenda in these products and I would like you to reserve splenda for foods that you would like to sweeten a little bit.

That will about do it for the day. Tomorrow lets talk about meat.