June 1, 2010 - VLCD Day 9

My food calories today were 480, and I lost .7lbs since yesterday. My total loss is now 12.5lbs.



I did not eat breakfast. I didn't eat until noon.

Lunch: lean sirloin stir-fried with spinach, garlic, a little green onion and kelp noodles

Snack: crab meat seasoned with lemon juice, green onion and parsley.

Dinner: Bison with cabbage and caraway seeds, cooked with garlic and a little green onion. I also added a splash of ACV. That was very tasty. I'd happily eat this while NOT dieting!

May 31, 2010 - VLCD Day 8

I'm down another 1.1lbs. today for a total of 11.8 lbs. My average daily change is 1.48, but that's including the days I lost my "load weight", which is mostly water. The average for this week should be interesting.

My food calories yesterday were 510.



For breakfast, I had a protein shake made from chai tea and the egg white protein. No fruit.

For lunch, I had a sort of chicken taco salad. Big pile of lettuce with chicken and green onion, topped with a salad dressing made from cottage cheese and salsa.

I made a snack of a salad made from fennel, chicken and half a small apple. The dressing for that involved the chicken poaching liquid from today, a little cottage cheese, lemon juice, spices and parsley. It was decent, but too thin.

For dinner I had the crab, cucumber and kelp noodles.

I'm really trying to boost protein to see how that works out. Basically, I'm eating the allowed foods in any combo I want topping out at 500 calories. I'm breaking all manner of P&I rules. Oh well. It's working really well for now. If it stops working, I'll change.

One Week Wrap-Up

I lost 10.7 lbs. the first week, and as promised, here's a shopping list to eat what I ate.




If you click on that, it will go to the google spreadsheet.

Here are my weekly stats:





I started the week at 166.8 and ended it at 156.1

May 30, 2010 - VLCD Day 7

I lost 10.7 lbs. the first week! Yay!

Today, I registered at 1.1 lbs loss, and my food calories were 463.

I went shopping, and was not at home all day. I walked two malls for seemingly hours. Ok, it was hours, and I was totally wiped out. I brought my own salad dressing for one meal (the shrimp at lettuce was at Baja Fresh), and I just went with vinegar, oregano and garlic powder for the salad at Jerry's. I wasn't expecting to eat *all* my meals out today, but that's how it happened. I brought my strawberries and a bit of cottage cheese to go with that round egg at McDonald's.



Breakfast: one MCD round egg, strawberries, home-made low-fat cottage cheese

Lunch: Baja Fresh shrimp ensalada, no tortilla strips, dressing or cheese. I brought my own dressing.

Dinner: Jerry's breadless grilled chicken sub, see above for dressing.

May 29, 2010 - VLCD Day 6

I had 502 calories yesterday, and I lost .4 lbs. Over the two days, that's a good number, so no complaints.

I think I'm going to stop tracking the non-food. I'm not doing it today anyway. I have a bunch of stuff to do that involves running errands, and there's no way I'll get the fluids right. It would just stress me out and waste time.



Breakfast: Strawberries and Egg White Protein with cinnamon and vanilla.

Lunch: Salmon salad on lettuce. I made a dressing from cooking down green onions and garlic and immersion blending that with spices and white wine vinegar. I was very black-peppery, but good.

Dinner: Ground beef cooked with spinach, green onion, garlic, ginger, cilantro and some rice vinegar at the end. It was very tasty, and I had more strawberries for dessert.

May 28, 2010 - VLCD Day 5

I had 507 food calories yesterday, and I lost 1.4 lbs. So far, I've lost 9.2lbs from my loaded weight, and I'm 4.5 lbs. under what had become my regular weight (too high, but pretty consistent).

I also did my strength exercises (I keep putting off the Met Con!), and I did really well - I'm not having a hard time on the reduced rations at all. I've crossed that line to where I'm definitely burning fat. The first couple of days are always a lot of water. I feel better, and I'm not hungry during the day. I've been a little hungry at bed time, but I can manage that. I'm not sure why it is - I think I'll schedule my food a little differently today.

I'm starting to think I have an allergy or intolerance to either chicken or nightshades. I'm not eating either today, and I will see if my tinnitus goes away. I'm hoping it's not chicken. Honestly, I don't want it to be either - I can't imagine line without hot peppers and tomatoes.

Nightshades would be better than chicken or eggs though. Earlier in the week, I thought it might be eggs, but I had a very direct reaction yesterday after eating a salad of mixed greens, chicken breast, tomatoes, onions and cucumbers at Panera. I eat chili powder nearly every day.

I know I have *some* food intolerance that I have not sorted - this is part of the reason I'm doing HCG. It's very easy to eat a simple diet, and the amounts are so small, that it's easy to spot a reaction.



Breakfast: None

Lunch: Panera Classic Cafe Salad with grilled chicken breast and no dressing. I made dressing at home and brought it with. I cooked some red onion with the Homemade Dressing Italian Seasoning and water. When the water cooked away, I put about 1/4 cup of ACV in the pan, cooked for a moment, and turned it off. I then used the immersion blender on it. It made two servings (one I'll use today), and it was very tasty.

Snack: Egg white protein shake with strawberries, cinnamon, vanilla and orange peel

Dinner: Ground beef and one fresh tomato cooked into chili with my homemade chili seasoning mix. I will *so* miss chili. Sigh. I hope I'm wrong.

May 27, 2010 - VLCD Day 4

I wasn't hungry all day, which was nice, but I slept poorly. I also only dropped .2 lbs for the period ending on 5/28. That happens - sometimes it even goes up a little - but when it's after a night of poor sleep, I tend to blame that.



Anyway, yesterday. I started with lunch. I had pre-cooked shrimp from my grocery store's fish counter with chili spiced cabbage.

I had the shake as an afternoon "snack", and it was the protein powder, strawberries, cinnamon and vanilla. It was not as tasty as the egg white protein.

For dinner, I had a ground beef patty with sauteed spinach on the side. I made that with some green onion, garlic and a little cider vinegar. I missed that on the food list, but I've already done all the stats, so you'll just have to imagine one tablespoon of ACV on there. :) I had the apple as dessert.

May 26, 2010 - VLCD Day 3

I did my HIT strength exercise today. My intention was to have my breakfast protein shake of about 100 calories before I exercised, but by 11:00, UPS had not shown up with my custom stuff from trueprotein.com.

My morning blood glucose today was 77. I wanted to see what effect fasted training would have on my BG, so I took it right before I exercised. You know, for science. It was 101, and I had eaten nothing. I guess I still had some glycogen to use up from my loading weekend! After the exercise it was 85.



For lunch:
100g grass-fed lean ground beef with 150g cabbage. I stir-fried all that with green onion, garlic, ginger and Thai Red Curry Paste. It was pretty tasty - beef and cabbage work well together with pretty much any spice.

Late Afternoon:
Protein Shake was the strawberries and egg white protein powder mixed with water, ice, cinnamon and vanilla extract. It was quite decent. I don't use any sweeteners in anything on VLCD. Not even stevia. I think that sweet tastes with no actual sugar are a real issue for the body, so I it, and real sugars are not allowed.

For dinner:
Steamed shrimp from my grocery store's fish counter and dry-roasted radishes. And an apple. I pretty much always eat my apple after dinner. I used jerk spice on the radishes, and then tossed the shrimp with them when they were done, just to coat. It was kind of unsatisfying, I think because the radishes looked like so little.

May 25, 2010 - VLCD Day 2

My food calories were 506. I lost 3.3 lbs. from yesterday.

Here's the list:



For my little breakfast, I had spinach, one green onion, one clove of garlic and an egg.

At lunch, I had chicken with my own spice mix I use to make chili. I added the cabbage to that. I had a bowl of strawberries for dessert.

For dinner, I had a salad of poached chicken breast, celery, apple and parsley. I poached the chicken with a green onion and a clove of garlic, and I cooked down that water and veg for part of the dressing. The rest of the dressing was the juice of 1/2 of a lemon.

May 24, 2010 - VLCD Day 1

My calories are over 500 because, as I said yesterday, I'm including spices, black coffee, green tea and various other seasoning items that are "free" and do not need to be counted. My counted calories are actually 487, and I lost 3.2lbs. in the period that covers this food list.








So what did I do with this stuff?

I had a shake in the morning made from the strawberries, hemp protein powder, water, ice, cinnamon and vanilla extract.

For lunch, I had chicken soup with the chicken, spinach and celery as well as a green onion and some garlic.

For dinner:

I marinated the steak (starting at lunch) with garlic, green onion, ginger and rice vinegar. At dinner, I cooked it in a non-stick pan with with the kelp noodles and at the end, added the marinade. I put that over the cucumbers which I julienned.

I had an apple for dessert and a pot of decaf chai tea while watching TV.


Macro Breakdown:



RDA Table: