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30 Day Healthy Meals Weight Loss Diet 1: Day 11

This 30 Day Healthy Meals Weight Loss Diet is teaching me a lot of valuable lessons, one of which is that my digestive system has a difficult time processing tossed salads and large amounts of boiled vegetables.

I enjoyed the absence of boiled vegetables and tossed salad from my meal so much last night that I decided to repeat the experience tonight.

I have found that it is still possible to fill up my plate despite the lack of a certain amount of roughage and volume from vegetables.

What I am quickly discovering about my own tastes and preferences is that I definitely prefer to have a plate consisting of a large variety of low calorie items rather than a plate that is sparsely populated with high calorie food items.  The removal of salted cashews from my diet gave me the biggest clue that I might be on to something.

Nuts are great to eat.  I love peanut butter and most kinds of nuts, but they are extremely high in calories and they limit the other foods you can include in your diet when you are following a set caloric intake each day.  I will most likely save the enjoyment of nuts for my free days from now on.

Since last night’s meal went down so well, I decided on having an identical meal tonight, with one small exception.  When I went to the store to pick up the Brunswick Boneless Herring Fillets that I bought, I ended up bringing home three different kinds so that I could enjoy a little variety.  Here is the meal I had tonight:

My meal from tonight consisted of 2 cups of Homemade Vegetable Soup with Knorr OXO Beef Bouillon, 3 Quaker Original Rice Cakes, 2 Hard-Boiled Eggs, 30 grams of Compliments Essentials Old Cheddar Cheese, one 85 gram can of Brunswick Boneless Herring Fillets, ¼ of a package of Lipton Parmesan Pesto Sidekicks Pasta, Cucumber, Mushrooms, Green Pepper, Cherry Tomatoes, Dill Pickles and Clementines.

The total calorie content associated with this meal is as follows:

• 2 cups of Homemade Vegetable Soup with Knorr OXO Beef Bouillon – zero calories because this soup consists solely of negative-calorie foods.
• 3 Quaker Original Rice Cakes – 105 calories
• 2 Hard-Boiled Eggs – 150 calories
• 30 grams of Compliments Essentials Old Cheddar Cheese – 120 calories
• One 85 gram can of Brunswick Boneless Herring Fillets – 140 calories
• ¼ of a package of Lipton Parmesan Pesto Sidekicks Pasta – 130 calories
• Cucumber, Mushrooms, Green Pepper, Cherry Tomatoes, Dill Pickles and Clemetines – zero calories because these are all negative-calorie foods.

The total calorie content associated with the meal pictured above is 645 calories.  The only real differences from last night’s meal are the Herring Fillets with Hot Sauce rather than plain (adding another 10 calories) and the exception of one hard-boiled egg (for a reduction of 75 calories).  This of course left room for a larger dessert than I was able to have last night.

In the interest of finding out whether or not my Scotsburn Hoofprints Ice Cream has been responsible for any of my recent weight gain, I had a ½ cup serving for my dessert tonight.  The label says that a ½ cup serving contains 150 calories, so by my count, I ate 795 calories today.

Given that I did not have any of the gas-causing boiled vegetables or tossed salads I have been complaining about lately, if my weight has moved up again tomorrow, I will feel confident in removing ice cream from my dessert options forever (with the exception of free days).  Perhaps there are some foods that just do not agree with me.

Here are my current stats:

Weight and Body Fat

There was not much of a change here today, but I still experienced a drop in weight that I will attribute to my reduced calorie intake.  My Salter body fat percentage scale showed my weight at 149.2 lbs this morning, so I weighed 0.2 lbs less than yesterday.  My body fat percentage reading remained unchanged, showing 19.9% for the second day in a row.  I expect to be lighter again tomorrow, unless my ice cream dessert from tonight ends up skewing the result I am anticipating.

Summary

The biggest difference I can report between the 30 Day Healthy Meals Weight Loss Diet I am currently immersed in versus the 30 Day Chef Boyardee Weight Loss Diet I chose to conduct in January of this year is that I am not getting bored of my food this time around.

By day eleven of the 30 Day Chef Boyardee Weight Loss Diet, my enthusiasm had begun to wane and I had begun to question why I made the decision to complete the diet in the first place.  The variety of choices I have at my disposal now is keeping me interested in this particular diet.

I am able to speak more about the food and less about my feelings this month.  I am very grateful for this fact because I felt like kind of a whiny bitch last month.  I am supposed to be passing on information about the food I am eating every day, not the struggle I am going through while eating it.  But then, I guess it helps other people to know that even someone with as much self-control over food as I have is still susceptible to all the same cravings as they are.

The only difference between a successful dieter and a failing dieter is that one person wants to lose weight more than the other.  One is willing to do whatever it takes.  I am willing to do whatever it takes to help you, so if whining is beneficial at all, then perhaps I’ll take it up again next month when I survive on Swanson Hungry Man TV dinners.

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