Love makes me fat. Never fails. I wish it weren't true, but it is. Food has always been a happy thing for me, so when I'm happy and I want to celebrate-- I eat! That, coupled with someone adorable incessantly insisting I'm beautiful and it just seems right to keep on eating and smiling and loving. But after a few too many months of that-- you get the love chub. I am very in love-- and it shows.
So in efforts to overcome the love chub, Mimi and I resolved to loose the fluff and decided to embark on the Metabolism Miracle. It's starts with an 8 week segment of very low carb intake (before later segments re-introduce carbs in a healthy way). Very low. We can have zero fruit, only certain vegetables (pretty much everything but carrots) and other than that only very "pure" foods. Meat, cheese, etc. No sugar, whatsoever. Only certain sweeteners, no milk, no yogurt.... and of course no bread/pretzels etc. (Side note: we discovered a day or two in that Mimi was probably 95% carb before this endeavor. The book tells you the first 3 days are going to be the hardest, but on day 2 I was pretty convinced we had sentenced Mimi to her death. I have never seen her so pale or so shaky... but... we're all ok now :). )
It's really interesting-- this is only week 2 (we did do the cliche start on Jan 1) and though I'm not supposed to/allowed to step on the scale for 8 weeks I can say that I fit a lot more comfortably in a few of those items that were just a bit too tight, so that's something. We shall keep you updated but so far it's Love: 1; Chub: 0 on this here Day 10 of the Metabolism Miracle... here goes!
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