To help with my goals I have tried to set some schedules for myself. Part of this is waking up early. I guess this would be an added goal for March - sort of an informal one that will only help the others. Ah, heck, why don't I just add it to the list! My goal is to be up by 9:00am or before (that's 8 hours of sleep with me getting home at 11pm, and having a couple hours of wind down time) and to "work" by 10:30am.
By going to "work" I mean working on my freelance from home, and working on my applications.I Think treating it as going to work is going to make me alot more accountable to getting those 3 applications out every week.
I've also set a schedule for how much time needs to be devoted to each task in my job search and which days I'll do each task. Searching, writing, revising, etc.
Saturday I am making my meal planning and grocery shopping day. I want to make the Fat Smash diet as easy as possible for me. And since I can't watch TV with the boyfriend on the weekends, it'll be good use of my time.
Miranda asked about the fat smash diet (in her very nice encouraging comment on my last post. Thanks!) I've used it before - a few years ago - and I dropped about 6lbs in a week before giving it up because the weekends were hard and the BF was giving me flack for not eating with his friends. The good thing is he is now traveling for work except saturdays and sundays, and I've already assumed I'll end up cheating slightly then so I'm cutting myself some slack on those days and making up for it by doing the first phase for two weeks instead of 9 days.
Basically it's a diet by Dr. Ian Smith (of Celebrity Fit Club). It follows 4 phases. Phase 1 a detox with really limited foods - no sugar, meat, limited dairy (yogurt and egg whites only), and limited carbs, but unlimited fresh fruit and veg (or lightly cooked). Phase 2, foundation, which slowly adds in a few more foods in low quantities you couldn't have before like milk, cheese, and more carbs. Phase 3, construction, even more food groups added like meat and quantities slightly increased, Phase 4, maintaince, where the rest of foods are now included and the dr. talks about portion control, trying to fufill cravings with small amounts or healthfully. Cardio is the staple exercise I think he recommends 45 minutes 5 times a week. You can google it and find alot of information.
What I like about the diet is the focus on eating as many fruits and vegetables as you want. The limited dairy is something I do anyway. And I like my carbs, FS allows you oatmeal and brown rice and beans (no nuts at first though). So it' alot easier for how I'd ideally like to be eating. And the amounts are pretty reasonable. I personally can't eat 2C of brown rice in a day. But knowing I would be "allowed" to is pretty nice.
A friend of mine recommended the "slow carb" diet by the "four hour body" guy, but it doesn't allow grains like oatmeal or fruit at all, except your cheat day. I think a full cheat day is bad for me because it'll lead to cravings to binge. All the personal accounts I've read online said that they felt the need to stuff themselves even when they weren't craving bad foods just because they were allowed to. Not good, if you ask me. I think it's better to know that when I'm with the BF I won't be able to do strict fat smash, but I'll try to get close. I'm not planning on throwing it out the window completely.
It is a bit like a crash diet in the detox phase, which is why I want to be a little forgiving on the weekends with the BF. I want to use the diet as a jump start. Like I mentioned in my last post, I want to stop focusing on short term goals. So it isn't to lose a bunch of weight for the two weeks and go back to eating crap as soon as I hit my goal. I really want to use it as a detox to stop craving all the candy and pastries that I seem to keep falling back on. And to re-introduce myself to the foods that I really do like, but have been too lazy (and mildly depressed) to just make, like my morning oatmeal or my super yummy veggie soups. And I am hoping by being forgiving with myself during the weekends, it won't feel overwhelming.
So, hopefully March will be like spring cleaning myself!
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The fat smash diet sounds interesting. I've been looking for a kick start sort of thing too that will get me on the right track again. I hope it goes suer well!
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