Anyway, I headed back to my appt. with the Nutritionist after completing the 28 day cleanse/detox.
Needless to say I was pretty pumped to get started on the new diet, I was actually looking forward to losing weight and getting started, but most of all even thought the detox was easy, I was ready to start eating something other than fish!!
First things first, the Juliane hooked me back up the the BioImpedance machine to do the body analysis again. Here were the results:
Visit #2 - 12/6/2012
- Weight - 246 lbs
- Cell mass - 89.7 lbs or 36.5%
- Extracellular mass - 79.3 lbs or 32.3%
- Lean body mass - 169 lbs or 68.7%
- Fat mass 77 lbs or 31.3%
- BMI - 36.9 (morbidly obese)
- Basal metabolic rate - 2393 calories
- Total body water - 58.1 liters
Yep, I lost 28 lbs on the detox - which completely floored the nutritionist. Since she has been doing these, the best she has seen was 8 lbs. The detox is not meant to have people lose weight just remove crap from their body....Apparently - YES I WAS FULL OF CRAP!
So this was an exciting day, my body was making the necessary adjustments on its own, using the detox, to get ready to lost weight....next on to the First Line Therapy Diet!.
After celebrating for a few minutes it was time to get down to the nitty gritty...the goal for the diet - 2200 calories per day. The nutritionist used something called a core food plan - which was a color coded spreadsheet with the following groups and colors abd the recommended servings:
Yellow - Fat and Oils = 6 servings per day
Orange/Yellow - Nuts & Seeds = 8 servings per day
Red - Proteins = 11 servings per day
Green 1 - NonStarchy Vegetables = 5+ servings per day
Green 2 - Starchy Vegetables = 2 servings per day
Green 3 - Fruits (no sugar added) = 3 servings per day
Green 4 - Grains = 3 servings per day
Orange/Green 1 - Legumes = 3 servings per day
Orange/Green 2 - Dairy & Alternatives = 3 servings per day
After seeing all of these foods and the servings per day, the one thing I remember saying was that there was no way I could eat all this food during a day...the response from Juliane - I was eating all of the calories and mode from these foods in one meal before I came to her. The challenge now, eating the right foods in the right servings and spreading out the calories throughout the day to kick start my metabolism and change the way my body processed food.
Here is how we broke out all these servings into daily meals:
Breakfast = 3 proteins, 1 fat, 1 fruit, 1 dairy/alternative
Morning snack = 1 protein, 1/4 cup nuts & seeds, 1 fruit
Lunch = 4 proteins, 2 fats, 2 non-startchy vegetables, 1 fruit, 1 starchy vegetable, 3 legumes, 1 dairy/alternative, 1 grain
Afternoon snack = 1/4 cup nuts & seeds,
Dinner = 3 proteins, 3 fats, 3 non-starchy vegetables, 2 starchy vegetables, 1 dairy/alternative, 1 grain
That it for now. In my next blog I will share what each of these servings consisted of and how I was able to mix things up.
