Back to Ground Zero

This week: 180.6
-0.2
Net: not much!!

Well, this week I did give up, in a sense. It has become apparent to me that I am incapable of doing this without someone outside my own head babysitting me, so I have enlisted the help of trainer and hardass extraordinaire, Scott Abel.

I sent him the required information, which included detailed information about my habits and lifestyle and also some (very humbling) pictures of me wearing minimal clothing from a variety of unflattering angles, and he has designed a diet program specific to my needs. I also have a workout program from him, which, having done the first half (HALF!) of day one today, may very well kill me. In the interest of brevity I will spare you the details as usual, but I was a nauseous, boneless pile of goo by the end of the hour, and was VERY grateful that the girlies ran out of time in the kid care room at the gym.

So what is this diet about? Well, for the first six weeks (because it takes 6 weeks to form or break a lifestyle habit) my mission is to break my sugar addiction.
Cold turkey (no pun intended, because we ate lots of cold turkey this week...which just means that I will not miss it). Basically I am eating 5 times per day come hell or high water, but what I eat will consist of lots of lean protein in the form of either fish or cottage cheese or protein powder, lots of veggies, and limited amounts of starch. No sugar, no wheat, no fruit. What is nice about this plan is that I have very few decisions to make, which is what I wanted, and someone else is insisting that I eat regularly - something that I have trouble with, left to my own devices.

I got the new plan on Thursday, and I figured that since I was in Calgary Friday and Saturday, I had better just use that last few days to say good-bye to my favorite foods and mentally prepare for the next 6 weeks, making today Day One. So far, so good...