The Revolving Diet

Summary of the Karl Lagerfeld Diet

The week ended with 1.8 pounds lost.  Not great, but not bad.

Let me just say - I have no idea how a man (Karl Lagerfeld) did this diet long term. He did state it was a form of punishment...not really a selling point for a diet - - but no diet is really fun! If he started with the Protein Supplements and veggies for the first two weeks and then moved onto Phase Two, I think it would be extremely hard for a man to do.  Not to be bias but woman are used to starving themselves to get into a dress or pair of pants.

I barely made it through the week.  All the protein drinks and just having veggies - too much liquid and not enough solid food. You really need to be self motivated to stay on this plan.  I felt bloated and parts of the week gassy.

The protein shakes were filling - especially if you were able to blend with ice and make nice and thick. For me finding that Muscle Makers Grill was a bonus because I was able to go there and they made it nice and thick!

Yes, I lost weight - but not as much as I thought I might lose being it was mostly a liquid diet.

Would I do this diet again - No. I could barely get through the first week.

*** DO NOT DO ANY DIET WITHOUT TALKING TO YOUR DOCTOR FIRST ***

Day 17.2 ~ 2/6/11

Just finished my last shake and vegetable only meal of this diet and you probably heard the biggest HALLELUJAH.....EVER!!!

Breakfast: (2) Spiru-tein Banana Protein Shakes (240 calories)

Lunch: (2) Spiru-tein Vanilla Protein Shakes (240 calories), Grilled marinated zucchini, tomatoes, red peppers, carrots and onions.

Dinner: Jay Robb (1) Chocolate & (1) Vanilla Egg White Protein Shakes (240 calories),  Approx 3 cups steamed broccoli with 1 tablespoon garlic sauce (from local Chinese Restaurant)

 The take-out Chinese was my "Super Bowl" dinner treat....no chips, dips, buffalo wings, or calorie laden drinks for me :0( .  I did get in 30 minutes of walking and 15 minutes of using hand weights!!!

What's the best part of the Super Bowl?   The Commercials!   I am rooting for the Steelers even though they beat the Jets  (love the Jets!!) I have a fondness for the Steelers after meeting and sharing dinner with Rocky Belier several years ago, after he did a speaking engagement for a company where I once worked.  The man is an awesome human being!  His story is inspiring and he is a genuinely nice person.  He even let me try on his Super Bowl Rings!!!

His story and the motivation is "Be The Best You Can Be".  I think that saying and from my own opportunity in being able to attend one of this speaking engagements brings everything together of daily life.

You can only be as good as you are willing to push yourself.  In your relationships, in your goal planning and your daily life.  Treat others with respect and you will get respect back.  You should be proud of your accomplishments no matter how big or small, any accomplishment is a reflection on what you yourself has done...BE PROUD!!!!

 For me doing this blog and continuing it everyday is an accomplishment.  But putting myself out there and doing the research and testing the diets takes work.  I do it to understand and pass on what I have learned.  You reading this blog and taking something from is, touches my heart and makes me want to continue.  

THANK YOU!

Keep Focused on your goals!   Give yourself your own personal time!   BE HAPPY!!

Have a wonderful night!!

 

Day 16.2 ~ 2/5/11

I am counting the hours until this one is over!!I definitely SWISH when I walk and I like veggies - but really there aren't a lot you can do and still keep them healthy.

While making lunch today - I got to thinking about people that are on death row and that the options they have for a last meal. Taking it further I thought that if I had a choice of a last meal would I want that last meal everyday?  If I got to choose my last meal, I definitely would go all out with my favorites (who wouldn't)

Here it goes - Cheeseburger, french fries, Fettuccine Alfredo, Caprese Salad with Prosciutto, Crab Wontons & Great Wall of Chocolate Cake from P.F. Chang's, Hot Fudge Sundae from Cheesecake Factory, Pralines & Cream Ice Cream from Baskin Robbins, Warm Krispie Kream Original Donuts, Italian Bread from Moretti's in Brooklyn warmed & topped with butter, Boylans Red Birch Beer, Fresh Brewed Ice Tea, Goldberg's Peanut Chews, Hot Buttered Popcorn and M & M's.

Just think about this - What would you pick?

Now, what  listed I obviously would not normally eat in one day.  But they are my favorites and being that they are my favorites I really need to look at them as a treat.  Or in other words look at them and think if they are my favorite - why waste my time on things that I do not enjoy as much. Why have the wasted calories on something that might temporarily fill the need but not the want.  I should save my treats for the times when I can fully enjoy them. 

Slipping up on a diet happens - but wouldn't you rather slip up on something you truly enjoy and not on something that was easy to grab or just convenient?

Today's Meal's:

Today's Meals:

Breakfast: (2) Spiru-tein Vanilla Protein Shakes (240 calories); Mixed with a little instant coffee for the cappuccino flavor

Lunch: (2) Spiru-tein Banana Protein Shakes (240 calories),  large lettuce & tomato salad

Dinner: (2) Jay Robb Chocolate Egg White Protein Shakes (120 calories),  grilled marinated veggies - carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, red peppers and onions.

Good Day overall.  Work out was packing and moving around boxes in garage for two hours.

I hope your Saturday went well!!!

Have a WONDERFUL night!!

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have

 

Day 15.2 ~ 2/4/11

I am so ready to be done with this diet.  It is suggested that you do what I am doing this week for two weeks before you move onto Phase Two -or- I could have started at Phase Two (but then I would of missed all this liquid!)

I have broken out in a few (at least 7) zits.  Is my body telling me it's getting rid of toxins? No idea.  I am not appreciating the new additions to my face, started with two and then their friends arrived. 

Todays meals not much different from yesterday (and still two more days of this...)

Today’s Meals:

Breakfast: (2) Jay Robb Vanilla Protein Shakes (240 calories)-made with 1/2 cup less water & added instant coffee (needed a pick-me-up this morning!!)

Lunch: (1) Muscle Maker Grill  Chocolate Protein Shake, 32oz (280 calories), steamed broccoli, green beans and carrots with lemon juice,salt & pepper

 Dinner: oven roasted tomato with chopped green & red peppers, carmelized onions, zucchini and spinach with slight drizzle of basalmic vinegar, (2) Spiru-tein  Vanilla Egg White Protein Shakes (240 calories) added rum extract and a dash of cinnamon (yummy)

Pretty flavorful veggies today.  May try and stick with them over the weekend.  I got about 20 minutes of exercise in this morning on the Total Gym.  After I am done updating here - I'll be getting a little more exercise in working in our garage - we have to move boxes around and search for stuff hubby wants to bring with him on his trip (gotta get that exercise in anyway I can!!!)

The end of the work week and a chance to relax a little.  I hope your week went well and you have put a little time aside to recharge your own batteries!!  It's great to take care of everyone else - but don't forget about YOU.....!!!!!!

Have a GREAT night!

 To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.

 

Day 14.2 ~ 2/3/11

I made a find today!!  Muscle Maker Grille. It’s a little deli type place that serves good food that is healthy (low fat, fresh ingredients)….but my find was they make Protein Drinks!!  I wish I knew about this earlier in the week instead of me packing a lunch with my protein packets, shaker and ice cubes…

Today’s Meals:

Breakfast: (2) Jay Robb Vanilla Protein Shakes (240 calories)-made with 1/2 cup less water & added instant coffee (needed a pick-me-up this morning!!)

Lunch: (1) Muscle Maker Grill  Vanilla Protein Shake, 32oz (280 calories), lettuce & tomato salad with dash of salt & pepper

 Dinner: (1) Spiru-tein  Vanilla Egg White Protein Shakes (120 calories) with added almond extract,  4 oven baked zucchini boats (2 zucchini sliced horizontally, insides scooped out– stuffed with chopped tomatoes, zucchini, garlic, basil, a little salt & pepper)

Snack: (1) Cookies & Cream Spiru-tein Protein Shake

How is your exercise going?  Just adding a little walking to any other exercise you may be doing has many benefits that can increase fat burning, helps reduce stress, improves heart health, improve general fitness, increases energy and can even break a plateau!!!

Like me you can add walking to your lunch time (as long as there isn’t a foot of snow on the ground!). While at work instead of calling another department for information – get up and ask question in person.  Other than walking at lunch I like to pace when I am on the phone (at work and at home) – It makes my thinking clearer and I’m adding a little exercise in.

An easy no brainer that everyone can do is start parking your car further out in the parking lot at the mall or grocery store to get a little more exercise in.

I also brought hand weights into the living room (where the tread-climber is)  if I am not using the tread-climber – but just sitting around watching TV – I do light arm exercises.

Every little bit helps!!!

Have a GREAT NIGHT!!!

Some Motivation to reignite the fire….

The groundhog saw his shadow yesterday….that means Spring is only 6 weeks away

6 weeks to be a little firmer in all the body parts we are working and a little lighter on the scale!!! 

Let’s GET GOING!!!!!

Day 13.2 ~ 2/2/11

Had a pretty good day today, woke up groggy but got my 30 minutes on the tread-climber in first thing this morning!!  I was wide awake after that!!

Meals pretty much the same as yesterday except I broke down and had soup tonight for dinner.  I needed something HOT!!! 

Breakfast: (2) Spiru-tein Banana Protein Shakes (240 calories)-made with 1/2 cup less water

Lunch: (1) Spiru-tein Vanilla & (1) Chocolate Protein Shakes (240 calories); I mixed the Vanilla with a little instant coffee for the cappuccino flavor & 1/2 cup less water, large lettuce & tomato salad

Dinner:  Progresso Penne Chicken Soup, large lettuce and tomato salad

A little story....I know when I'm in trouble when hubby gives me The Look.  He knows me well enough by now and understands that there are things I do a certain way.  I will not freeze anything without first wrapping in a layer of wax paper, then aluminum foil and then placed in a Ziploc baggie.  We will never dip below the mandatory 6 rolls of individually wrapped toilet paper.  In the winter I must sleep with my entire head covered and only my nose peeking out dressed in my most sexiest of outfits (ratty t-shirt, sweatpants and socks).

 The Look is not one of shock or of horror, it’s more of bewilderment -- although immense bewilderment associated with the realization that he actually married me years ago without fully understanding how far I will go to do things my way (and it's too late to back out now).

 The reason this comes up is hubby is going on a road trip with a friend.  His friend packs NOTHING!  He brings the basics clothes, underwear, toothbrush.  It’s not that his friend is cheap or anything – he just doesn’t think of it.  The trip is not for another week – but I have been shopping for snacks for the last two weeks.  It’s like I am shopping for my own trip.  I already have two bags of snacks put aside.  Hubby and I were going over things he is bringing and notice the two additional bags and I had to tell him what it was.  That’s when I got THE LOOK. He didn’t have to say anything before I started to explain that he needed (NEEDED) these items for the trip as his friend is not going to be bringing anything and I had to buy for two (I actually packed for a busload of hungry backpackers after a trek up the Himalaya’s, but let’s not get technical here).  My stance on the snacks was…”You never know what you are going to be in the mood for”.  Followed up by  “It’s a long trip, this will save you from stopping”.

 I pack for road trips and I am not talking about just clothes and the basics. I am talking snacks.  I can not leave my house with out some type of something to snack on.  It doesn’t matter if we are going 15 minutes up the road to our parents homes or a 15 hour drive to South Carolina.  THERE WILL BE SNACKS. 

 I am not sure why – but as soon as I get in the car – I have to have something. Being on a diet for this past year has limited my car snack consumption where I have had to rely on sugar free gum, mints and the like.  I usually like to have a minimum of a candy bar, licorice and then something salty like pretzels.

Needless to say we have not gone on any long car trips within the past year – I would have had to blog all the junk I ate!

 I like to be prepared – I actually bring snacks on the plane too.  I have for years.  One time I took a business trip with one of my old bosses and he got us bumped to first class (my first and last time there – not because of what I did)  pretty much as soon as we got our seats, I pulled out a pack of Pop-Tarts and he looked at me (almost the same look I get from hubby, but with a little more horror) and declared we were in first class and you just don’t do that (I was thinking he was embarrassed but then I convinced myself he probably wanted Pop Tarts too and was just covering himself by saying that because he took a pack from me - and yes, I packed more than one).

 Anyway….I am always going to like snacks. Whether I am on a diet or not, going on a trip or hanging home.  That’s why I say – you can diet – but you can not deprive yourself if you want something. You just have to have the discipline to get back on track after you splurge.

I hope your diet and exercise plans are on track and you are happy with your progress so far!

Have a WONDERFUL NIGHT!!

If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen

Day 12.2 ~ 2/1/11

Not sure if I am going to lose internet connection with the bad weather presently working it's way here so this is a really quick update tonight. There are slick roads and accumulating ice EVERYWHERE!! 

Be careful !!!

Today's Meals:

Breakfast: (2) Spiru-tein Banana Protein Shakes (240 calories)-made with 1/2 cup less water

Lunch: (2) Spiru-tein Vanilla Protein Shakes (240 calories); Mixed both with a little instant coffee for the cappuccino flavor & 1/2 cup less water, it worked out well yesterday, large lettuce & tomato salad

Dinner: (1) Jay Robb Chocolate Egg White Protein Shakes (120 calories),  (Same as yesterday) grilled marinated veggies - carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, red peppers and onions.

Snack: (1) Cookies & Cream Spiru-tein Protein Shake (not too bad tasting, if it wasn't for a diet - I wouldn't have it)

 No exercise today.  I needed a break.

Have a warm and cozy night!!

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Day 11.2 ~ 1/31/11

I decided to go with a diet a man has done.  I have tried to mix in diets that either are for both sexes or for women as there really aren't as many diet books specifically for men other than diets that incorporate some type of body building.

If you got a chance to look over he outline I included a couple of pictures showing before and after - it is a big difference.  I never realized he was so heavy until I saw the picture.  In addition I made note that I was trying to get the protein sachets from the Spoonlight Institute but the site was in French.  Stupid, Stupid, Stupid me.  This afternoon I thought I would give it another try and I opened (www.babblefish.com) to try and translate parts of the site and after about an hour I saw an option at the top of the site to change to English.....Over the last two weeks I went back and forth trying to navigate that site and got no where....I really m losing it!

I ended up getting some protein packets from GNC and a local Health Food store.  They were my meals today.

Breakfast: (2) Spiru-tein Banana Protein Shakes (240 calories), 1 box string beans

Lunch: (2) Spiru-tein Vanilla Protein Shakes (240 calories); (1) mixed with a little instant coffee trying to make a cappuccino flavor), large lettuce & tomato salad

Dinner: (2) Jay Robb Chocolate Egg White Protein Shakes (240 calories),  Grilled marinated veggies - carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, red peppers and onions.

Feeling good, kinda shaked out.  I was full all day.  In addition to drinking (6) shakes, I drank 4 bottles of water.  I SWISH when I walk!!!  The weather was decent at lunch time today so I got a good 30 minute walk in.

WIth the veggies and shakes I came in a little over 800 calories.  This is going to take getting used to. Tomorrow I am going to try mixing two shakes together with one part liquid and see if it just thickens up the shake vs. drinking two whole shakes.

I hope your day was less buoyant! 

Have a TERRIFC NIGHT!!

A truth to ponder: 

Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car
keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the
Donkey - but I'd bet my ass everyone can find and push the snooze button
 from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed,first time, every
time!