My Menus ...
A few people have asked me for "my menus" ... Well, I am no model or poster child for how someone should eat!!! In my case, in fact, you might want to study what i eat to see what a person should not do ...
Also, I exercise every day. OK, it is only 35 minutes day, but emulating what I eat, etc is going to be less effective for 99.9% of people than getting serious about your exercise. Seriously. If you are not exercising religiously, do not even read the rest of my post. The exercise is more magic than any possible food combination.
As far as food, my food has changed every few months based on what I saw my weight doing etc. For my induction and probably the first month or so I ate like 1800-1900 calories, 20 carbs, 55% fat.
From there I moved on to OWL 1250 calories a day, 20 carbs, 60% fat. I based this number on what my BMR would be at goal weight. Since I am not only short, but also actually have a wrist measurement waaaaay under the size "small" frame, my goal weight is pretty low - 115-125. At goal, to maintain weight, I will eat like 2000 calories!!! What am I trying to say? 1250 calories is going to be too low for most of you out there who are taller, bigger boned than I am - which is pretty much most of the population.
While on OWL at that calorie level, I would eat a morningstart bar for breakfast and a sf chocolate bar after lunch EVERY DAY - This is definitely not for everyone. I think it may tend to stall most people!! and I believe it is a prominent item on the stall buster list! LOL!
I did find that all lc wheat products and lc milk/yogourt do stall me. I really think you have to find your own way.
In the last two months I had a month-long stall and decided to do fat fast. I found the 1000 calorie limit really hard and so I decided to try the modified fat fast (MFF). It worked really well for me, so lately I have been doing MFF for 5-6 days a week and then an OWL meal or two over the weekend with the rest of the day MFF.
basically, I have just altered what I eat as needed. Each of us is a living experiment as far as i see and we will not lose at the same rate. We're just different people with different metabolisms, etc. Heck, I only lost 6 lbs on induction!!!!
