Slow-carb Diet Day 4: A Small Loss

First thing this morning was my daily weigh-in, and the scales said that I'm now 151.2 kg (333.3 lbs), a 0.6 kg (1.3 lb) loss since yesterday, and a 1.2 kg (2.6 lb) loss since my last official weigh-in. It appears that progress is in fact being made. Sweet!

Breakfast was the usual, but only two eggs. Lunch was the standard lentil and veggie mix, and a chicken breast that I'd marinated in Madras curry paste. Very nice. Then around 5:00 I had a handful of cashew nuts as a snack, then worked up an impromtu dinner consisting of more of the lentil & veggie mix, plus some of the mince (ground beef) and pasta sauce I'd made for the boys' spaghetti. That wasn't the plan at all (I was supposed to have more of the chicken breast), but when I made the plan, I hadn't really thought about the fact that I'd need to cook two different dinners simultaneously, while also doing all the other stuff that always seems to come up while I'm cooking dinner. It was easier to combine the two meals a bit more, and the end result was filling and tasty.

The weather wasn't particularly inviting for a walk (although in the end, it didn't ever actually rain), so I stuck with the cross-trainer. Taking it easy today meant doing four 15-minute sessions, with distances ranging from 4.5 km to 4.9 km. Enough to work up a good sweat, but not so much that I was still shaking and feeling like I might throw up 15 minutes later.

The meals were 1790 calories, the workouts burned 975, giving me a net of 815. Or in Weight Watchers terms, 44 ProPoints used and 23 Activity Points earned.

After a week of doing this slow-carb thing, I have to say that it hasn't been as hard to stick to it as I thought it might. The main foods I'm missing out on are bread, potato and pasta. Of the three, I guess potato is the hardest, even though I really wasn't eating that much of it before. The only other thing is the sugar substitute. None of them beat real sugar. When I was at the grocery store tonight, I thought about buying some diet soda just to have something other than water. But in the end, I couldn't be bothered buying any of it. But in a few days, I'll have some of the things I miss, and that once-a-week exception to the rule makes it ok.