March 2017

New challenges...
March 4: 176 Lbs. My weight is already on a plateau ! I cannot believe after all my strict discipline. My only failure in 15 days was half a bagel with a little bit of cream cheese (something like 200 cal) and 2 squares of dark chocolate (80 cal) with my banana for a snack, twice. Otherwise, I strictly follow the vegan diet started couple weeks ago. Today for example, I had cereals and soymilk and a clementine for breakfast, a banana for a snack, a big green salad, a small bowl of soup, some steamed asparagus, and a kiwi for dinner. It illustrates pretty well what I generally have every day. 
March 10: 175 Lbs at last !!!! I thought I was stuck at a fix weight.
What a long way to lose 1 Lbs. 

I bought these fabulous tomatoes !!! they smell good.

March 25: 177 Lbs. It has been a rough time, again going through celebrations. I think gaining 2 Lbs is not proportional to all the excess I did. Again, on the road to lose weight.... 

February 2017

Feb 20: 178 Lbs
I already lost one Lbs with this green diet. I know at the beginning losing weight is easy. I hope it will continue that way....

Typical lunch

Feb 23: 177 Lbs
Dance classes are so difficult....

Feb 25: 176 Lbs. I start seeing a difference on my belly. I know that at 169 Lbs, my shape is becoming normal again. So my first objective is to lose these 7 Lbs.

Feb 28: 176 Lbs ; was thinking finishing the month with 175Lbs :(.....

February 2017

February is my birthday month. 

I started by craving some "Crepes Suzette" crepes with orange alcohol flambeed. I prepared them and was very satisfied, it was absolutely delicious. Then I had some celebrations at work, and a decadent hot chocolate, brioche and cake afternoon on the previous Friday. But this year I really limited the overeating because my "so called" best friends, Liliane and Vladimir, skipped my birthday totally. I was so hurt ! I am a so good friend, always celebrating, organizing and gifting my friends... So, I decided to cut my ties with them and take some distance.
My weight  is still in the upper 170s and I cannot believe I gained so much weight this Winter. Fortunately I had a conversation with my dance teacher and she told me she was following Dr Fuhrman diet. She advised me to buy his book "eat to live" and read what it is about, which I did (I bought 3 of them on Amazon for $30) and started to read.....

Well, it's a strict vegetarian diet, with lot of common sense. The 6 aggressive first weeks are very difficult I think but the reward is really loosing weight and re balancing health. I am conditioning myself to do it soon, while I am emptying my cabinets and eating the left crap I still have. But I already added a lot of fruits and vegetables to my current bad diet :) Going tomorrow for some grocery shopping of organic vegetables and fruits. 
It's a strict diet with nothing else than green veggy, fruits, nuts and grains. No dressings, zero fat, zero sugar, zero carbs, zero animal proteins, zero drinks, zero caffeine. For me it's lacking some proteins and light dressings such as olive oil, tea, my morning coffee. So, I will probably adapt. In any case, a diet has to be adapted depending on the taste and preferences. For example, I don't like raw peppers and don't digest them and the starting weeks are full of raw peppers...And I can't eat a raw green salad without dressing at all ! So I plan using a spoon of olive oil in my salads, an olive oil spray to sauteed my vegetables too.  
The diet is associated with intense exercise, one hour a day. I think I could increase mine to 4 or 5 days a week, but the body and muscles need to rest, so I don't believe in an every day exercising. 
More over the diet is totally unsocial, meaning while you do it, you eat home all the time or with your Tupperware at work. No,  zero possibility of adapting anything, that I found not realizable long term. And 6 weeks is pretty long....
I will see how it goes. But on the deep principle, I agree that it could work well for me too. 
I love a lot of greens, steamed vegetables, fruits, nuts and grains, so it should be ok. 

2017

So, I left for the Caribbeans the first week of January (Dec 29, 2016 to Jan 6, 2017) and celebrated the new year a little too much....
Since I came back, same pace: I don't know what's going on, I am starving in the evening, craving everyday for sugar and fat food. Jumping from crepes to whipped cream puffs, from cream pasta to chocolate. I am dying.....
I think I have 60 Lbs extra.....

Feb 2, 2017: 179 Lbs. I did a quick jump on the bathroom scale and was just horrified. But I even don't need the scale, because I see myself in the mirror, and  believe me, it 's ugly. I have this buoy all around my waist...
The only good point: I never stopped exercising, 3 times a week, regularly. From intense dance classes to Pilates. I know I grow a stronger muscular body, my legs are way stronger, and my flexibility improves. My studio is going to add more dance classes starting September, and I will add a barre class. So, the goal is to lose the max weight I can before September (24 Lbs would already be great)
I need a huge motivation for that. But how could I explain,  how not motivated I am with the political situation in my country ? My job on hold ;  The huge permanent stress, the oppression, the anxiety to discover what the night brought us new. In the middle of the Winter, with a gloomy weather, you have to be so strong not to fall now !