I am STILL on my Diet!

Yes, I am still going strong on my crazy diet. I can’t even believe it. Every day I think to myself, I should really test out a pan of brownies. You know, just to see! I have stayed strong though… somehow.

Yesterday I tried out eggs so I know that is ok, added in to my diet and seems to be going well.  I am currently on veggies, rice, fish, plain bagels, and eggs. I will try it for a few more days before adding something else in. Maybe to those darn brownies!

My meals today consisted of:

B: Two scrambled eggs, salt & pepper added, plus a mini plain bagel, butter & jam
S: Cold carrots and snap bean peas
L: Quarter of potato (steamed), then stir fried up with mushrooms and rice
D: Baked salmon with onion & mushrooms, butter, salt, pepper, oregano to taste and huuuuge pot of steamed zucchini, squash, green beans, and carrots
Orange jello for dessert

I’ve been a bit pissy though because after loosing about nine pounds on the liquid and then veggies portion of my diet I have not BUDGED in a full week.  Part of that is my period, ugh, so slightly explainable but the other part is that I feel like I’m SO LOW in my weight that my body is a little in shock.  I haven’t been this weight in years!

I’ve always hovered around 160 and size 12/14 and been semi-comfortable with body image.  It’s fluctuated over the years, especially with both pregnancies.  I went down to low 150’s for a month or two when Sam was a year old and doing Weight Watchers but went back up after I reached goal and then got pregnant again.  In the summer of my senior year I did a CRAZY diet (plus diet pills – fun! Not…) that got me down to the high 140’s for a short time but again, I went back up.

Well, the past week I have been stuck at 152.  That is an amazing number for me though.  Especially considering I am fitting into size 10 pants and bought a medium (a MEDIUM!!!) shirt at the mall the other day! Whoa baby! I do have a long ways to go to hit my ‘drivers license’ weight though.  Yes, that is stuck at 140! LOL – I can’t imagine what I would do if I ever hit that weight. I may have to go back to the DMV just to move that number lower.  Ladies, it’s a written rule that it must be at least ten pounds less than what we currently are, right?

It’s also nice that I feel good every day.  Eating fish everyday is getting to be extremely annoying though.  Right now, for sure I know that garlic, corn, and cheese (assuming all dairy) is a problem for me.  I will probably try chicken in a few days and then whole milk after that to keep the ingredients pure and continue to find out the culprit(s). I have a big suspicion that chicken is a problem as well.  I ate it almost every other day so that could have been one of the main ingredients of what was affecting me.

I still have to determine if grains are a problem though.  My one big cave was a bagel one day and that didn’t affect me so I’ve been sticking to plain bagels.  There is a little wheat flour in them so maybe they are ok? Hard to tell.  Some of the rice I have been eating has traces of wheat and soy and I’ve been fine so hopefully that is not a problem?  It could be the amounts of wheat and soy that I was eating were greater than what I’m doing now, so I do need to test those as well.

So fun.  Well, not really. But very healthy for me!  So many of the foods we eat have so many combined ingredients that going back to the basics has been a very interesting science discovery.

It will be nice to find some other things I can eat that aren’t so carbalicious. All that rice, potatoes, and bagels I’ve been eating has been helping me  plateau on my weight, I think.  Being this good, I need to have some happy news on the scale. 🙂  SOMETHING has to be good about this diet, right!??