So last week I talked about the new book I discovered called French Women Don’t Get Fat. Today I just got the book and I am VERY excited to get started with reading it. I can’t wait to learn more on how I can eat better. Well after last week’s blog I decided to start in advance the whole “50% solution”. Where you eat only half of whats on your plate and if you are still hungry then you eat half of whats left and so on.
I have practiced this on all my meals and have found it pretty easy. Granted there were a few times that I wanted to gorge myself… but that was at the beginning of it. Now that I’ve gone a week it has gotten way easier.
Just the other day I got some Chinese food take out and got whatever I wanted… then I ate just a 1/4 of it and was full. So I put it away! I was so excited and proud of myself. It has been much easier then I thought it would be.
And going back to my last post about drinking Black coffee has been happening too! I slowly am weaning myself off of all the sugar and cream I put in my coffee. Now I ‘m off of the cream and am enjoying just half of the sugar that I used to have… soon I won’t be adding ANY sugar to my coffee.
Even looking back at my calorie intake it has dropped from 2500 (or more) calories a day to about 1700 calories and I’m not even really trying THAT hard. I’m not hungry, or thinking this diet is “SO HARD”. Instead I’m actually surprised that all I’ve consumed in calories has been that little. Guess cutting your portions in half really do add up.
So here is a toot of the horn, a pat on my back and all of the ways I can say Yay!
Posted by Stormy on June 8, 2009 at 2:24 pm
That is so great! Congratulations! I love it when you find ways to make the hard things easier and dieting (for people who love food as much as we do!) can be really hard! I hope that you learn even more great strategies in this book and that you’re able to accomplish your goal!