Yesterday (Sunday) morning I weighted myself and for the first time since I started this diet I actually gained four-tenths of a pound. I was disappointed to say the least. After all, I didn’t eat that much and I ran on the treadmill. In fact, I ran 1.75 miles in 20 minutes. That’s a .75 improvement in distance for a 20 minutes run over just 3 weeks ago. I mean I was working it on that treadmill. So I was anticipating a significant loss. The only thing I can figure is that while I watched college football I drank about 6 diet cokes and the sodium causes water retention. Perhaps those four-tenths will be gone by today (Monday). I haven’t weighed myself yet so I don’t know. But, I watched pro football yesterday and snacked on nuts and fruit. My wife Sun told me to stop eating, so apparently I was making a lot of trips to the kitchen. Even healthy snacks like nuts, oranges, and bananas have calories.
I remember some of the diets I used to go on years ago that let you have one day a week to eat whatever you wanted. One was called “The Cleveland Diet” and on that diet you could eat whatever you wanted on the weekends. The problem with that diet was what you had to eat during the week. I think the caloric intake was less than 1000 calories per day. The idea was that when the body senses a significant deprivation of calories it will stop burning fat as readily as it initially does during a diet. Eating more on weekends was apparently supposed to trick the body and hide the fact that you are dieting. As I recall, that diet worked very well, but I could never stay on it for more than 3 or 4 weeks.
Verse of the Day: Ps 28:7
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield;
My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped;
Therefore my heart greatly rejoices,
And with my song I will praise Him.
NKJV
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