I feel pretty good about my NoS habit at this point.
In the past 21 days, I've only had four failures, and two of them were very minor ones for eating a fruit at night. I'd say, even tho 21 is the magic number around here, 16 good days still is pretty darn good!
I'm really not having much problems with my meal habits right now, but my portions are definitely too big and my choices could be better, especially if I want to see some weight loss.
So, I will be using plates that are a few inches smaller in diameter now.. Just measured them and they are cool little Corelle shallow bowl/plates, where there is about a one inch rim all around it and the actual diameter of the part where the food goes is about 6.5 inches across.. The plates I have been using up till now are more like 8 inches in diameter and *no* rim around them.. they were just shallow plate/bowls, but they were about an inch deep, and really held quite a large serving size if totally full.
I estimate I'll be cutting out about 1/3 of my daily calories by doing this, with all else staying equal.
Buuuuut,,, all else is *not* going to stay equal, because I also am going to be trying to do a much healthier version of NoS than I had previously.
Not that I'll be eliminating *any* foods, but I will really be cutting back on several categories and increasing in others..
The main one I will cut back in are breads and pasta rice etc..
I love all these, but I know I can live with less of them.
So what I am doing with those is simply cutting my portions in half.
If I normally have a sandwich with two pieces of bread, I'll have one that's open faced with only one now.. If I had a big bowl of pasta with sauce before, now I'll have half that amount and add more veggies to the plate in it's place.
As well, I'm going to be putting the brakes on ordering out, specifically Chinese food, as I tend to retain so much water after eating it, and it's very very discouraging to see myself go up and down that four or five pounds after having it. At most I'll allow myself Chinese once per month and only on S days.
I'll be upping my fish and cutting back on cheese and butter and other very high fat foods.. Definitely totally cutting out deep fried anything and if I am dying for some fries, I'll make them myself with healthy olive oil in the oven at home, not out of the greasy fryers at a diner or Mcdonalds.
Also I'll be trying to incorporate much more raw foods, specifically raw veggies, which I enjoy.
I am sure this will all help in the weight loss dept and I feel that all these changes are the kind I'd like to make for life as well, so here I go!!!!
I'm excited!
Have a great weekend all!
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