My Personal Blog
July 20
Started on Tom Venuto program today, after reading his ebook for 4 days.
No, it did not take that long to read it, but I wanted to start on an even numbered date.
It was hard eating all that food, but it did take away my desire for a quick snack. Here is
what I had during the day:
Breakfast 1:
oatmeal with equal and 2% milk
10 cherries
Breakfast 2
can of tuna, drained
brown rice
Lunch 1
can of tuna, drained
brown rice
Dinner 1
salmon loaf with cucumber sauce
baked sweet potato
brown rice
July 21
Breakfast 1
oatmeal with 2% milk
hard cooked egg
After breakfast I started on my cardio: 5 minutes and
I was breathing hard.
Breakfast/Lunch 2
can of tuna, drained, in lettuce leaf
sweet potato, baked
Lunch 1
1 cup lowfat cottage cheese
banana
Dinner 1
chicken breast
cucumbers and tomatoes, sliced
brown rice
I went shopping today and bought 1% milk,
low fat cottage cheese, egg whites, salmon fillets,
chicken breasts. The tomatoes and cucumber I got
out of my garden. I hope I can get to 5 meals a day, as
advised by Tom Venuto. Also am getting tired of the tuna.
July 22
Breakfast 1
oatmeal with 1% milk
4 hard cooked egg whites
grapefruit
Did my walk for cardio-1 1/2 times around
the yard.
Breakfast 2
cottage cheese
grapefruit
Lunch 1
chicken breast 3 oz
steamed eggplant and zucchini
banana
Dinner 1
Boy, this is getting easier by the meal.
3 oz. chicken breast
brown rice
tomatoes and cucumbers, sliced
steamed eggplant and zucchini
After dinner I did a few excercises with weights.
I am taking it kind of easy at first, as I have not been excercising
for a few months (and you can bet it shows).
I am going to try for the 5th meal, chicken and zucchini,sliced tomato.
No heavy carbs for the 5th meal, only fiber carbs. (vegetables)
July 26
I decided not to bore with you my meals. Needless to say, I am up to 4 meals per day, some days 5.
I have come to like tuna, especially in a 12 grain bread sandwich.
I also walk around the yard 2 times, instead of 1.
Weighed myself today (cheated - l day early. I have lost 4.5 lbs.
Got an Accumeasure by mail yesterday. Seems like I have 35% body fat - wow and whoa. I need
to get down to 16 to 20%. I will try for the 20%.
August 1
Last Thursday I had lost a total of 5.5 lbs. I am trying to avoid my scale,
as I want to be (pleasantly) surprised next Thursday, at my weigh-in and
fat measuring.
I am still just doing 2 laps around my yard. Find that after that I am out of
breath. Still doing weights 3 times a week. Maybe I will shoot for 4 times
a week.
August 3
Yea! My weight has dropped by 10 lbs. since I started on July 20
with Tom Venuto's Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle BFFM
Also, my fat measurement is down from 24 to 20. I am so getting
used to eating 4, sometimes 5 meals a day, And walking for cardio,
and doing a small amount of weight excercises.
Boy, I am so happy!
August 5
Ach! I weighed myself last night, and had gained back 3 lbs 4 oz.
Probably just the water I drank all day, and retained some of it.
Water weighs about 8 lbs. per gallon.
I know better now than to weigh myself at night, and from now
on I will wait until my usual weigh-in on Thursday morning.
Another benefit of the BFFM system, is that I no longer drink
10 to 15 cups of coffee per day. I used to drink 4 or 5 cups of
coffee made in the coffee maker, and then the rest of the day
I drank instant coffee. No decaf for me, either.
Now I drink only 1 coffee, usually in the morning after my cardio,
and once in a while I will have another cup, usually leave it unfinished.
August 7
Still doing everything right.
Another benefit: I no longer wake up in the night, and then can't go
back to sleep for 2 or 3 hours. Other than waking up to go to the bathroom, (the
results of drinking water, water, and more water), I get a good
nights sleep.
August 10
I have lost 3 more lbs. this week. I am starting to lose my stomach. I was like
a man's beer belly.
I have started doing abdominal crunches since last Monday. I could only do
10 the first day, Monday, and 15 on Tuesday and Wednesday.
It is supposed to get up to 100 degrees today, our hottest day of the year.
I have plenty of fans, but no air conditioning. I stay inside during the heat
of the day, and drink plenty of water. In fact, I start drinking water in the morning,
and continue until just before I go to bed.
August 20
I only lost 2 lbs. this past week, weighing myself on August 17.
Still, that is a total of 15 lbs. in 4 weeks, and I only expected to lose
2 lbs. per week, for a total of 8, so I am ahead by 7 lbs.
I am down to about 1/2 cup of coffee per day. It is do hot that I am
constantly drinking water, instead. I read that for every cup of coffee,
one must drink 1 cup of water in addition to 8 to 12 glasses of water
per day.
I must confess that I do not miss my peanut butter and margarine
sandwiches that I had every day, sometimes 2 sandwiches at a time.
What a lot of fat I put into my body, and it showed!
By the way, Tom Venuto's ebook, Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle, is NOT
a diet book, but rather a way to lose weight by eating more, not less.
And it really works. No diet mentality anymore!!!
November 2, 2006
I weighed myself today, and have lost a total of 31 pounds. It is showing
on my face, which is getting more wrinkles, so I will have to increase my
face exercises.
All this in spite of the fact that this week I drank beer (lite), ate enchiladas
and tacos, and ate quite a few chocolate candies left over from Hallowe'en.
April 16, 2007
I have finally gotten back to my blog. I was so busy
from November with Thanksgiving, December Christmas and
Channukah, and on New Years Eve I was in Times Square in NYC.
What a fabulous city! And the food was out of the world! (pricewise
and delicious).
But, I still stayed at my weight even with the eating at great
restaurants and fab deli's.
As of last week, I was at my goal of weighing 135 pounds. I still
need to work on my abs other pockets of fat. Arms, definately, and
behind.
My daughter Julie wants to lose weight for our family reunion in
California July 28. I sent her a link to my favorite weight loss program,
as it is the one that works for me.
The link is below:
Tom Venuto's Book, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle
Click for BFFM (Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle)
This is an e-book, ready to download and print out. Plus you get
many bonuses. Click on the blue letters BFFM and see for yourself.
or, for an mp3, click here:
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