Week 1

Week one is in the books. The week wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I'm the type that eats bread, potatoes, or some type of grain at every meal. Giving that up was not as hard as I thought it would be. I struggled for the first few days, but after that cruised along without any issues. I didn't slip up once and only ate Slow Carb Diet approved foods the entire week. I saw the scale drop as low as 192 before my cheat day.

Then came cheat day. I had planned all these foods that I wanted to eat. Got up had some cereal for breakfast, and then turned to the yogurt. I had been eating yogurt everyday before I started this diet. I started to eat it and didn't even make it through half before I couldn't eat it anymore. It wasn't that I was full, I just couldn't stomach it. I also noticed that I felt nauseated after drinking milk. This is something that I haven't really noticed before. But I do feel that way often. On this diet however, I did not feel that way once. Makes me wonder if I'm a bit lactose intolerant.

The food did get boring on the diet, but that's part of the idea. You start not to think about food, because you know what you are going to eat. Takes a bit of the thinking out, which is a good thing. Now the results:

                     Start             4/12
Waist              41                 40
Chest              42                 41
Arms              12                 12
Legs               22                 22
Hips               39                 38
Total              156               153
Weight           194.8            193.6

Now the results on the scale were disappointing at first. I had expected a three or four pound loss. But this is why you take the other measurements. I began to look at other results. Three total inches lost was great! But doesn't really tell you much. So I looked at body fat percentage. By using this I could calculate how much total fat was lost. I was down over 2%, this shows a total fat loss of over 4 pounds! That is more the result I was looking for. It doesn't show on the scale because some there were muscle gains.

Overall I am pleased with the first week's results. I am going to try some new things this week to see how much of an affect they have on  the measurements.