Cara Lee Schaanick's Journal, 29 July 2014

I've got something from Mens health..want that? but i find that its best to try different meal and pick the ones YOU like and are enjoy making, that way you will follow your plan without hassles. 

Yes please:) And have you lost weight while on it? i tried doing my own meal plan but i didnt lose any weight on it because i dont think i was eating the right amount of fat, carbs and protein. 

Breakfast: 2 eggs in any form with about 30 gram cheese or 2 slices whole wheat toast with spoon sugar free peanut butter - and coffee no sugar Lunch: Tuna/chicken/beef with vegetables (green if possible) about 250 grams Dinner: Smoked chicken/beef/tuna/chicken with lettuce leaves, cucumber, cocktail tomatoes, onion, dash of homemade mayonaise and spices or substitute salad with vegetables.. I started with this last Friday and have come down from 74.8 to 72 this morning but I also exercise daily (walking & jogging for 20 minutes) minimum - lots of water, no sugar  

Excellent Pontjie!! Keep it up! 

Meal plans are difficult to maintain. and even if you do manage to stabalize the insulin to silence the "crap cravings" your body does sometime want things that you did not plan to eat such as seafood / poultry or even fruit. it also makes it difficult to sustain after the weight has been drop. i find it best to build yourself 20 meals that has the 40 % Carb 40% Prot 20% Fat rule, with the help of Fatsecrets. each meal should be around 500 Calories depending on your RDI. eating 3 -4 hours 4 - 5 meals a day, this speeds up your metabloism and it never gets boring. you will find that you are educating yourself in nutrition this way and very soon you will wing it and be able to go to shops and freestyling your cooking and shopping by just looking at the shelves and knowing the different combos and quantity without looking at a boring repditive program. good luck and hope this helps a bit. if not, maybe start on a program to first get going. but ultimately Fatsecrets is the best way of managing it. 

Thank you LCFF - I will try my best :)  

thank you for the comments everyone:)  

A great programme is Scoop to Lose, its about portion control, you can eat anything but in smaller portions. It's a South African programme, I've lost 14kg since 22 Feb 2014 and still eat chips, choc and drink my wine!! www.scooptolose.co.za 

Looks like a solid concept and I love that I have different options available for ppl with differing requirements. Just curious ball park figure what do they charge for a program? p.s. congrats on your huge weight loss! 

Sleek Geek on Facebook. I started reboot - 30 days; since Saturday and have lost 2.9 kilos. It is based on Paleo diet and absolutely free. 6 days of clean eating thus far. 

Does Sleek Geek recommend limiting the amount of carbs, especially starchy things like banana and sweet potato, or is it a bit of a free for all in terms of carb intake? Thanks :) 

Scoop2Lose is great, you can buy the Programme for R400, includes the books, scoop, measuring tape and a meal plan. No month to month fees or anything, its once-off! S2L also allows you to eat everything and anything, as long as you have it in the correct portions. Its a lifestyle changing programme, not a "diet". I have a history of compulsive overeating and S2L has really helped me. I recommend it 100%. (From 113.9kg 22Feb14 - 99.9kg 31Jul14!) :-) 

Thats awesome! Honestly there are some other programs out there that are nothing short of a rip off. Are you left to your own devices or are weigh in's & mentoring included in that price?