Current

Sunday: 200 calories

Monday: 200 calories

Tuesday: 0 calories

Wednesday: 0 calories

Thursday: 200 calories

Friday: 0 calories

Saturday: 200 calories

It is actually quite easy for me to "not eat" than it is for me to try and restrict to a certain number of calories; It is so hard to fight that insufferable urge to binge when I break a fast. It is not even that 200 calories doesn't fill me up for the day, because on any given day I can eat 1 chip and be happy with that, but when I fast and then go into a restricting day.. oh my gosh

 I already have my eating planned out and I am hoping that I can go to sleep as soon as I finish so that way I cannot eat anything afterwards, and when I wake up I will take an adderall to cut off my appetite... 

oh and a tip from personal experience: 

If you Binge a lot on Low Calorie Diets:

I know you don't want to hear this but...you need to start at a reasonable calorie intake. If you have been eating in the recommended 2000-1200 calorie range, then how do you expect your body to just magically adjust to a strict and restrictive diet? It won't, it will retaliate out of fear and make you binge. 

There are 2 scenarios:

• You eat 1200 calories every day for a week, and cut 200 calories from that number as the weeks go by, thus your stomach will start shrinking...leading to you requiring less and less food; You will work your way down to 200 calories a day and find that, that is actually the perfect amount for you and you will lose lots of weight. 

Or

•  You can get impatient, after years of binging, and eating 2000 calories you decide you want to jump right into eating 200 calories a day and it leaves you ravenous for more so you do everything you can to distract yourself, but you give in. This is too hard, you think; so you give up and go back to your old eating habits.

Which scenario do you want? Be patient, you did not put the weight on over night, and it isn't coming off that way either. Just because you fast or immediately go down to 200 calories after a 2000 calorie diet does not mean you will automatically shed the weight right off.. you will more than likely just put it back on and then some. 

Just saying <3

The Virgin Diet

Pretty sure I already talked about this, but, much like every other diet, I am giving it its own post.

The Virgin Diet

Length: 21 days [3 weeks]

I am pretty sure you can vary the length of this to suit your own preferences. 

Basics

You are giving up the top 7 controversial foods/food groups in which nutritionists, dietitians, and food scientists have agreed are possibly the root cause for women's inability to lose weight or, rather, our problem with holding onto weight more so than men.

7 Foods to Avoid

• Sugar & Sweeteners
• Soy
• Eggs
• Dairy
• Gluten
• Corn
• Peanuts
• 
  

Guidlines:

• Eat unprocessed, whole, natural foods that are humanely and naturally raised as much as you can; if this is not a possibility then eat more fruit/vegetables than anything else.

1-2 meals a day are shakes – Virgin Diet Shakes [you still lose weight and feel healthier with or without the shakes, as long as you are getting enough vitamins in your food]

• Challenge (reintroduce and check reactions) with dairy and eggs to see if there are any reactions and how frequently you can reintroduce them into your diet (in other words, introduce the "avoid" foods very slowly and monitor all reactions such as bloating or abdomen cramping)
• Challenge with gluten and soy to see if you should avoid them completely
• Continue to avoid foods you’re intolerant to and regularly check your intolerance

You should drop weight pretty rapidly [on average it is 1-2 pounds a day the first week and then about 5-7 pounds a week after that.] 

My sister's aunt is on this and it is very noticeable how much weight she has lost, and she was already very very tiny! So that proves that even if you are at that point where you only have like 10 or so pounds to lose and it seems impossible to burn it off: this diet is for you!

Red Cabbage Soup

22 grams is 0.776027 ounces [1 oz.] or 0.0970034 cups 

but let us not get technical here

22 grams of red cabbage is only 6 calories. SIX. S-I-X

One cup of chopped red cabbage has 28 calories

And 2 large heads of red [purple] cabbage makes enough to feed 1-3 people for days 

Average Cost of Meal:

2 large heads: $2.00-$4.00
**Seasonings: approx. $6.00-$10.00

Total for meal without seasonings: maximum - $8.00 [tax included]

AVERAGE: $2.00 per day [the soup should last you 4 or more days, and thus would be a $2.00 meal or cheaper the longer the soup lasts you]

**only have to buy once until you run out

ALSO!!!! You can buy one purple head of cabbage and one green because green is cheaper [but without all the benefits], it does not affect the overall end taste of the soup.

NUTRITION (benefits):

The author of all the information in italics is Sandi Busch 

"The red pigment comes from plant-based chemicals called flavonoids, while the sharp flavor is the result of sulfur-based compounds. In addition to these important phytochemicals, cabbage contributes to your overall health with fiber and a range of vitamins and minerals.

Insoluble fiber from red cabbage prevents constipation, lowers the risk of developing diverticular disease and helps relieve the symptoms of some gastrointestinal conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome. 

I've yet to meet or talk to a person with an eating disorder that doesn't have trouble with pooping. Don't lie, you know you struggle with it sometimes.

 1 cup of chopped red cabbage has 56 percent of the recommended daily intake of this important vitamin. As an antioxidant, vitamin C fights inflammation and protects cells from damage that leads to chronic health conditions, such as heart disease. Your body needs vitamin C to make collagen, which is the connective tissue that gives structure, strength and support to muscles, skin, bones and other tissues throughout the body. Collagen is also essential for the process of healing wounds. Vitamin C also strengthens the immune system by stimulating the production of white blood cells that fight invading bacteria and infections.

So essentially, this is the miracle food for bulimics and anorectics due to the protection from heart disease, and the fact the Vitamin C helps with the production of collagen which helps all the things that eating disorders destroy [skin, muscles, bones and immune system]

 It takes a series of chemical reactions to make blood clot. Seven proteins that participate in blood clotting depend on the presence of vitamin K to complete their part of process. Other vitamin-K-dependent proteins regulate bone mineralization. Long-term deficiency in vitamin K increases the risk of developing osteoporosis, atherosclerosis and cancer, according to research published in the April 2012 issue of “Food and Nutrition Research.” You’ll gain 28 percent of the recommended daily intake of vitamin K from 1 cup of chopped red cabbage.

Another long-term side effect from eating disorders is osteoporosis.

Red cabbage belongs to the cruciferous, or Brassica, family that includes broccoli, turnips and Brussels sprouts. Cruciferous vegetables are the only source of sulfur-containing compounds called glucosinolates that are responsible for their bitter flavor. Glucosinolates are digested into isothiocyanates that reduce inflammation and fight bacteria. The red pigment comes from a flavonoid, cyanidin, that functions as an antioxidant. Both cyanidin and the isothiocyanates prevent some types of cancer by stopping the growth of cancer cells, inhibiting enzymes that activate carcinogens and helping cells repair damage caused by carcinogens. In April 2012, Vanderbilt University Medical Center released research results showing that breast cancer survivors who ate more cruciferous vegetables reduced their risk of dying by 62 percent. 

Sources:
Healthy Eating


My Father's Recipe
[please click pictures if you cannot see them very well]

What you'll need:

• a BIG pot
• 2 *large* heads of purple [red] cabbage; these should be the size of your head.
• Caldo con Sabor de Pollo [chicken seasoning] 

• Tony Chachere's 

• Cavenders 

• Garlic Powder

PREPERATION

• measure out 12 cups of water and pour them it into the pot
• 1 teaspoon of "chicken seasoning" per cup of water [in this case: 12 teaspoons]
• 1 teaspoon [tsp.] of Cavenders, garlic powder, Tony Chachere's

1. Turn the stove on LOW heat 
2. cut cabbage while the liquid heats up [get the core out if you don't want it]
3. slowly turn up heat once you have all the cabbage in the pot

DO NOT worry about the cabbage filling up the entire pot it WILL go down

• cook until cabbage is soft [personal preference, I usually eat it rather soft]

This does take a little bit of time to cook and prepare but with time it becomes easier, and the soup is so delicious it probably won't even matter!

DO NOT DRAIN THE LIQUID

THIS IS WHERE **ALL** THE NUTRIENTS AND FLAVOUR WILL BE !!!

BEST EATEN WITH:

BOILED EGGS

My sister and I love biting the boiled egg [gently] in half, putting the yolk into the soup to soak up some of the flavor and using the "bowl" shaped egg white to scoop soup into and eating it like that; sounds weird but oh my gosh it is SO good!

Diets; Vegan

There is - for some reason - a hype surrounding the vegan lifestyle in hopes that it will magically make you thin. This is very untrue; this is especially untrue if you don't know what foods to eat! 

There are vegans or people who become vegans that actually gain more weight or don't lose any weight at all because they eat the wrong things or too much of the "right" things. 

I have already made a post about the dangers of eating too much fruit and not burning off enough calories, how the sugars in fruit can make you gain just as much weight as eating unhealthy foods can.  

But also there are all the foods that contains sugar, carbohydrates, high fat content, gluten, and MSG (salt) that you need to watch out for.

Just because you are vegan and that cuts out meat, dairy, eggs and anything else that comes from animals in anyway shape or form doesn't mean junk food magically disappears from your diet as well. So beware and always read the label.

(random tip: always look to see if your local shopping market has gluten-free alternatives to anything you normally buy)

Some vegan-friendly foods/meals I like that are low calorie and help you lose weight effectively are:

FOODS:

• wasabi peas (its not real wasabi, it is horseradish but still effective)
• roasted seaweed (it comes in sheets)
• baby carrots (35 calories for 8 oz)
•  celery (basically 0 calories)
•  raw broccoli (its like 4 calories for a small bowl full)
• Lemons
• Almonds (put 6 in a bag and eat 2 per meal time)

MEALS:

• Stir Fry         

Level: Medium

Calorie Per Serving: 100 - 200 

(depends on rice and sauce)

Time: 20-35 minutes 

 
Ingredients: 

- Any vegetables you like (usually soy beans, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, mushrooms, bell peppers, snap peas are used, but you can pick and choose as you like to suit your fancy)

-Tofu can be used if you want more protein , this must be prepared a day before though (not putting that here).

-You can buy seasonings or sauces for the base flavour a good few would be something with Ginger in it, I just looked up some good ones but they are all called "stir fry sauce" and "classic stir fry sauce" so just look at ingredients / calories and pick the best)

-rice (you can use plain white or brown or whole grain or Japanese it doesn't matter as long as you know how to prepare it)

I may or may not update this later IDK I will probably forget unless someone says something 

My personal diet plan

Allowed Foods:

©       Edamame (150 calories Per serving)

©       Green Apples (80)

©       Baby carrots (70)

©       Tomatoes (22)

©       Chia seeds (65)

©       Mustard (0)

Allowed Drinks:

©       Water (0)

©       0 calorie drinks (0)

©       Cayenne and/or lemon water

~Rules~

©       No eating before 5pm or after 7pm

©       Can only eat if really hungry or low on energy

©       Must walk 15-20 minutes after every meal

©       Must burn at least 100 calories (not counting after-meal walks)

©       No exceeding 300 calories a day

©       For every 10 pounds you lose, you can have 1 food reward (nothing over 500 calories)

©       Must do leg and core workouts every day

©       Must fast at least once a week

©       Can only weigh-in on Sundays and Thursdays
© You are allowed food off the list in moderation (and in SMALL portions)

~Not Allowed~

©       Binging  / “Free Days” (even if you mess up)

©       To give up

©       To get impatient

©    To consume over 300 calories in one day

©       Tell anyone about diet

Rewards:

(my list)

♥ 145 - Combat boots 

♥ 135 - A cute outfit (bottom photo on right?)

or outfit I put together xD

♥ 125 -  Cute underwear (matching lolololol)

♥ 115 - Swim suit, crop tops

♥ 105 - Jean shorts / high-waist shorts, tattoo, belly ring

♥ 95 - laptop

♥ 88 - a whole new wardrobe 

Today

Woke up late at like 1:10-ish PM

Had:

1 burger patty by itself : 320 calories

1/3 cup of stuffing but 1 serving is 1/2 cup so just going by that: 160 calories

Total: 480

and I am done for the day. 

For those of you who did not look into that article:

Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds

His theory: "That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most -- not the nutritional value of the food"

Pro-Ana proves this point by how some people chose to take one bite of anything through out the day, eat bagels, only eat fruit, or have a monotone diet that they stick to for weeks and yet we all still lose or maintain our weight (unless we binge). 

The theory held up: On his "convenience store diet," he shed 27 pounds in two months

"Haub limited himself to less than 1,800 calories a day. A man of Haub's pre-dieting size usually consumes about 2,600 calories daily. So he followed a basic principle of weight loss: He consumed significantly fewer calories than he burned."

Obviously, you would not be consuming that much, here:

Normal intake --- New intake

1600         ---       800

1200         ---       400

1000         ---       200

He went down by 800 calories so that is exactly what I did, OBVIOUSLY you do not need to say right at 200 every single day, you can be flexible with that one especially if you are not going to be eating healthy, nutritious, energy boosting foods. 

IF you lower your calorie intake significantly like down to 200 for a daily calorie amount, make sure you are taking vitamins like Biotin, Omega 3, Daily vitamins (children vitamins for example), calcium etc. etc.

"Despite his temporary success, Haub does not recommend replicating his snack-centric diet."

"Two-thirds of his total intake came from junk food. He also took a multivitamin pill and drank a protein shake daily. And he ate vegetables, typically a can of green beans or three to four celery stalks."

Thinspo ♥

No such thing as "trying" you either do or you don't so keep GOING