Days Five and Six of Sugar Awareness Week

Yesterday went smoothly, although we did not do our four mile walk.  Neither of us has had abundant energy since beginning this One Week Challenge, and after all of the body and energy work I'd had the previous three days, it was time to take a break.  Today I moved my middle son into his dorm, which involved lifting and carrying on a day that is supposed to be a "break" day from the 8 minute exercise plan - oh well.


Yesterday's menus looked like this:
Breakfast: Chili Relleno Bake (essentially home-roasted Anaheim peppers sprinkled with a bit of low-fat Mexican-style cheese and a combo of whole eggs and egg whites whisked with some baking powder and salt and pepper).
Snack: Chocolate Protein Powder shake with unsweetened almond breeze
Lunch:  More Chili Relleno Bake
Snack: low-fat, hormone-free mozzarella cheese stick, and 2 Almond Butter Cups since I could spare the carb servings (Recipe for Almond Butter Cups)
Dinner: 4 ounces of delicious pan-fried steak (Richard had marinated tofu), spring greens with a bit of parmesan cheese and homemade red wine vinegar dressing, and some strawberries and blueberries with an ounce or two of nonfat plain yogurt sweetened with stevia.

Today:
Breakfast:  2 blue cornmeal pancakes with stevia-sweetened maple syrup
strawberries and blueberries with an ounce of non-fat plain yogurt with stevia
Snack: Chocolate whey protein powder shake with unsweetened chocolate Almond Breeze
Lunch: (out with son at Egg & I) veggie fritatta (no mushrooms, no green peppers, no toast, no English muffin, and no potatoes - this made it is "free" Sugar/Carb meal, and it was very satisfying this way.
Snack:  Matcha green tea frappuccino (Match green tea with stevia blended with unsweetened plain Almond Breeze and Vanilla protein powder shake (Jay Robb- sweetened with stevia).
Plus we cannot forget our daily Almond Butter Cup allotment!
Dinner:  looks like it's going to be some roasted Anaheim peppers, mixed with some combo of cheese and corn tortillas (enough to make our carbs count, but not over-count), and probably a salad, too.


I do have to say, that on this diet, we have increased our saturated fat intake (cheese, a little bit of cream in the first frapuccino (Day 1), which can be tough on cholesterol levels, so I/we are thinking when we come to modifying our intake in light of sugar content of foods, we will be searching for a happier intake of types of fats. 


Having said all of that, I did sneak a peak at the scale this morning, and am at 200.4 pounds, which means that I've lost 3.4 lb in the last five days following this eating plan and doing the 8 minute exercises each morning.  We'll see on Monday what the grand total is and the difference from last week's waist measurement, and maybe I'll actually be under 200 lb, probably for the first time in several years.  That would be pretty cool (as would seeing it decrease more and more!)

An EFT Exercise: Some "Before" Pictures 1-3-11

Christmas 2010, getting ready for Jambalaya Christmas dinner

These first two picture were taken on Christmas Day, 2010, by my son, Alan, with his new camera.  I really like these pictures, as they show how happy I feel, even if I don't like my picture being taken.  They don't show the full body "me", which is okay, because there is enough fodder for EFT coming right up with pictures from last summer's grand events when I seemed to be in the camera spotlight.

Christmas 2010

June 24, 2010, Our Esoteric wedding in Montana

July 2, 2010 Our Friends and Family Wedding

July 2010, Olympic Peninsula

Even though this is the fattest I've ever been...I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Even though it's hard to get around....I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Even though people see me this way...I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Even though I regret being so heavy for our wedding...I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Even though I lost no weight before our wedding....I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Even though Richard loves me anyway...I deeply and completely love and accept myself

This last statement actually got a huge emotional response, obviously triggering my lack of feeling I deserve to be loved by someone so wonderful (or maybe by anyone) because of my appearance.  Thankfully I "tapped" it out, and now am feeling very appreciative of myself for allowing such a wonderful person into my life to love me and for me to love.  I will see if any further "unlovable" thoughts/beliefs reveal themselves.

July 2010: Small Lake on the far side of Red Fish Lake, ID:  Honeymoon

Even though I haven't seen a slim waistline in years...I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Even though I experience severe pain at times due to my weight...I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Even though my tummy bulges out over my pants...I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Even though I outweigh my sweet slim new hubby by many pounds....I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

(For the complete EFT process check out the EFT manual:  Click here for a link to the EFT Manual.)

It may appear that I am beating myself up, but I'm not, quite the contrary.  If these are the thoughts that are abundant in my psyche and aren't freed, then they will always hold me in the belief pattern and will continually subconsciously "beat me up".  By honestly bringing to the surface and acknowledging these thoughts and beliefs, and then using EFT to tap them out of my meridian and energetic system, I am clearing the way for new and improved body image thoughts to take their place.  This will better help serve my purpose of living with healthier habits.  The Universe never likes a void.  Once the non-serving thoughts are cleared it's important to replace them with loving thoughts, and the new way of seeing myself.

So, as I am tapping (after each clearing), I do a round of:

"I am beautiful"

"I am energized"

"I am very healthy"

"I love to move my body"

"I radiantly glow with love for my life"

"I love taking great care of myself."

"I am lovable no matter what"

Click here for a link to the EFT Manual.

More soon! I am off to the grocery store for another adventure.