{"id":5497,"date":"2010-08-06T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2010-08-06T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T12:56:11","slug":"the-fat-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/5497","title":{"rendered":"The Fat Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"

No I don\u2019t mean me, you dick.<\/p>\n

Ok maybe I do, sorta.\u00a0 Still, it wasn\u2019t nice of you to just assume it was about me.\u00a0 Just sayin\u2019.<\/p>\n

This is The Fat Lady<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"60lbs\"<\/a><\/p>\n

No, seriously, the fish is actually called The Fat Lady!\u00a0 Check the link if you don\u2019t believe me.<\/p>\n

Anyway, you know what a fish means!\u00a0 That\u2019s right, I am the Less<\/em> Fat Lady! \u00a0Another weight loss milestone has come and gone.\u00a0 This mother of a fish weighs a whopping 60 lbs<\/strong>, which is just 2 lbs less than what I have lost to date!\u00a0 I\u2019ve lost 62 lbs!\u00a0 The milestone was 60 of course but I\u2019m still a lazyass and am just getting around to writing about it now.<\/p>\n

You know what else weighs 60 lbs?\u00a0 This Rice Crispy Treat!<\/p>\n

\"ricecrispy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Crap, now I’d really like a rice crispy treat. Let’s move on…<\/p>\n

I never thought I\u2019d get here because if you remember I hit a monster of a plateau<\/a> back in April after finally reaching my 50 lbs lost mark and it didn\u2019t go away. I teeter tottered between 50-55 lbs lost between March and July and was really beginning to reach the end of my rope.\u00a0 No matter how hard I tried, my plan just was not working, Weight Watchers was no longer working.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know why, but even though I was biking, exercising and watching what I ate the weight just was not coming off.<\/p>\n

This summer while we were visiting my in-laws, they were telling me about how they have been eating a low carb diet.\u00a0 I was like, you guys are nuts! \u00a0Ok I didn\u2019t say that but I admit in the beginning I did think it, sorry guys!\u00a0 I thought what a lot of other people think when they hear low carb\u2026 Omg these people don\u2019t eat bread or potatoes, they eat bacon for breakfast every day and are going to die of a heart attack! <\/em>(Not true<\/a>, by the way).<\/p>\n

After listening to them talk about how good they feel, what is in a lot of the food we eat and especially after eating what they were cooking for a week, I was starting to think they weren\u2019t out of their minds afterall.<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t pushy, just informative and answered any questions I had.\u00a0 They also gave me some books to read about food, nutrition, weight loss, cravings and so on.\u00a0 A lot of things suddenly started making sense to me.\u00a0 Especially why my weight loss stopped in the first place!!<\/p>\n

For the past 1.5 weeks I have been following their diet (The Harcombe Diet<\/a>) and I\u2019ve been eating WELL.\u00a0 I eat great meats, about 10x more vegetables than I\u2019ve probably eaten in the rest of my life and best of all I\u2019m learning to cook properly.\u00a0 Not just \u2018add water and chicken\u2019 type of cooking but REAL cooking with REAL food.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot more satisfying and feels like more of an accomplishment than anything I\u2019ve done in the past.<\/p>\n

The diet\u2019s principles are basically low carb (not to be mistaken with NO carb), no processed foods, white flour, refined sugars (so none other than what is found in fruit), and not eating carbs and fats together in the same meal.\u00a0 It\u2019s strict, much more strict than what I was doing on Weight Watchers, but it\u2019s working.\u00a0 I\u2019ve lost 12 lbs in less than two weeks and I feel better physically.\u00a0 Some of the things I\u2019ve been moaning about physically are actually starting to show improvement.\u00a0 I think my friends (*CoughPauleKimmyAaronCough*) who have been trying to nudge me to eat a more low carb \/ real food type of diet were on to something all along.\u00a0 Sorry guys, I should have listened sooner!<\/p>\n

The diet has three phases, one for starting off and ridding your body of all the crap you\u2019ve been eating (eating mostly meat and veg), the second is for losing weight, which is a little less strict allowing for dairy, wheat and other good carbs depending on what you may or may not have intolerances to\u00a0\u00a0(yes I CAN eat potatoes and other things you imagine to be considered the devil in a low carb diet!), and the third is a more relaxed healthy diet with \u2018cheats\u2019 that give you more freedom while maintaining your healthy new weight.<\/p>\n

I am in phase 2 and as I said, it\u2019s much more difficult than what I was doing with Weight Watchers but I have a lot of weight to lose and I\u2019m really tired of messing around.\u00a0 I want to lose weight, be healthy and feel good about myself.\u00a0 If this is the diet that gets me there, I\u2019ll be happy.\u00a0 Regardless, I am happy for a lot of valuable lessons I\u2019ve learned from this one in regards to food and nutrition.<\/p>\n

So, now my weight is moving down steadily again, I\u2019m eating healthier than I ever have in my entire life. \u00a0I\u2019m looking forward to seeing where this takes me.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have any delusions, I know my body may adapt at some point and I\u2019ll hit another plateau but, I\u2019ll deal with that when the time comes just like I did this time. \u00a0I won’t give up.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I\u2019ll keep working on getting to 70! \u00a0That\u2019s going to be one hell of a fish!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No I don\u2019t mean me, you dick. Ok maybe I do, sorta.\u00a0 Still, it wasn\u2019t nice of you to just assume it was about me.\u00a0 Just sayin\u2019. This is The Fat Lady: No, seriously, the fish is actually called The Fat Lady!\u00a0 Check the link if you don\u2019t believe me. Anyway, you know what a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[188,65,87,543,347,382],"class_list":["post-5497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-weightloss","tag-cooking","tag-family","tag-food","tag-the-harcombe-diet","tag-weight-watchers","tag-weight-woes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5504,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions\/5504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}