Yeah, I ate junk food... and lost weight!

Weight: 213
Body Fat: 39%


That's right! This week's "diet" has consisted of Steak, Baloney Sandwiches & Chips (good chips, not some corn crap), Hibatchi Grill, Coldstone Ice Cream, Qizzno's, Dunkin' Donuts, Johnny Rocket's, and McDonalds. Before you start thinking "Oh no! She really went off the deep end!" read on...

I am down a pound since yesterday, down 2 pounds since last week and the lowest I've been in a while. Lower even than when I was stressing about what types of food I was eating. Here's how it worked out...

First off, I've been eating my meals in 2-3 "rounds". Like, it took me 3 days to drink a small Coldstone milkshake. I just had a little every time I was craving it. Same with the steak dinner and hibatchi. Ate half at dinner, half the next day for lunch. If I make a sandwich, I make half a sandwich and then put a handful of chips on the plate, put the bag of chips away. With Quizzno's, instead of getting one of those monster sandwiches, I had what they call a "Bullet"... It's a little skinny baguette. Mine had chicken pesto and tomatos I added some bbq baked lays and a small diet coke.

Now... for the real fast food... You know, the real "evil" stuff...

I got my morning coffee at Dunkin' (real cream, skip the sugar). Instead of getting a breakfast sandwich I figured just a small hash brown would be enough, and it was.

For lunch, Johnny Rocket's. Patty melt, skip the fries, diet coke. Ate half the patty melt, and then later on my 15 minute break, ate the other half.

Dinner... McDonald's! Crispy honey mustard snack wrap, small fries, small diet coke. Totally enough food to feel satisfied.

By the end of all this, I felt GOOD. I didn't overstuff myself, didn't feel tired and bloated, wasn't having any sort of crazy sugar cravings, and I thought to myself "I bet I lost weight." And I DID. YES!!

So my recommitment to the Paul McKenna plan is working. It's not about what I eat, it's about how I eat and why. I keep reminding myself... food is fuel. Eat when I'm hungry, eat what I want not what I think I should have, and don't look at it as something "special" or a "pick me up"... it's just food. I need it to live. And I only need enough to not feel hungry anymore.

And now I am off to have half a sandwich and some garlic parmesan kettle chips. Yum yum. Photos to come soon.