Week 12: Fat and Happy

"Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper."

Conversation with a student last week:
Student: Miss, why do you go to the gym all the time?
Me: Because I want to be healthy!
Student: Not me, I want to be fat and happy!

Today, I'm feeling fat and happy! I just came from my church's annual "Harvest Dinner" aka Thanksgiving. We don't get Thanksgiving off from school, so it was nice to have one a little early this year! I am so full of delicious foods and honestly just very happy!

And here's why--I ate tons of things today that I would normally avoid--cake, cobbler, mashed potatoes, cornbread--and I didn't feel bad about any of it! I have been treating my body so well for the last few months, so though it might show on the scale tomorrow, that delicious meal was worth every bite! I think usually around this time of year, I have already baked up so many treats before Thanksgiving, that I feel bad for eating even more when the big day comes.  It was totally opposite this year and I love it!

So this week, I tried out The Big Breakfast Diet and the results are...less than inspiring, according to the scale.  I am down just a measly .2 of a pound since last week! But I have decided to stick with the diet for one more week. Let me explain.

The diet promised a few things, but two that caught my eye.  1. You won't crave carbs or sweets in the afternoon or night. 2. You won't be hungry at night. Surprisingly, both of these things were true! I ate my huge breakfast, a smaller lunch, and little to no dinner because I just wasn't hungry.  No sugar cravings was totally new for me! I think where the diet went askew for me is that I tried a couple of different meal plans that she designed, one of which had significantly more calories than the other, causing me to gain weight at the beginning of the week. I switched to a different plan, and lost all the weight I had gained back, but not enough to see great results.  This week, I am trying my luck with the lower calorie plan. If I don't see great results, it's bye-bye Big Breakfast Diet!

Though I'm not losing tons of weight, I continue to receive compliments about how great I am looking! I definitely can't hear that enough! I'm excited for another week of big breakfasts and fit living!

Pounds lost: 6.4
Pounds left to lose: 23.6

Love,
Candace