The Beads Diet

me, myself and my diet

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Day THIRTY-SEVEN

Sep 15

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Today I started up lap swimming again. Had not even realized how much I had missed it in the past few years. It’s a bit of a drive, but I’ll combine it with a trip to the Whole Food grocery store on the way home.

This day is not easy. Not only that it’s 4 weeks to the day that Tricky past away. But food wise. My second last milk day on the program. I’m not cheating, but boy, am I ready to. On the other hand it’s a feast as I know it is only one day more after this and then I am truly on the way back. I have already begun digging my head into what I could cook in the veggy departement, I want something different than the past few weeks to celebrate my first fish… and not having rice or such with it does seem kind of… lacking. So I’m looking around what really will make a perfect feast. Have a whole day left to find it!

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Day THIRTY-THREE

Sep 11

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The day so far has been very uneventful, most notable was that I did my treadmill and weight workout this morning and that we saw our accountant and we now finally can file our 2008 (yes, I know) business and personal taxes.

It is my first milk day of the last 4 milk days before I begin with transition. Can you tell that I am counting?

Less than a week and I can have some fish! I’m a bit worried what 5 days veggies will do for me, because – very much the opposite of some on the list – veggies day don’t get my bathroom visits stuck but rather have my digestive system go full force (my husband says it’s all the ‘roughage’ causing it) and after 2 days it gets close to upsetting my stomach. Acidophilus & Bifidus help calming, but 5 days in a row with nothing but veggies and a little lean protein? But this will be something I’ll be facing in a week and will try not to worry too much about it right now.

One thing which is strongly on my mind are all the foods I am looking forward to again incorporate more and more into my life and so many things I want to cook. As mentioned in my posting Cooking and baking in the future, I do have a list in my mind. And, instead of going back to that posting over and over again to append to the list, I decided to dedicate a whole page to it. Thus, here and now and in advance I will apologize if this list of goodies to come will tempt you – best not even to go and look at it if you have a hard time resisting!

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Day TWENTY-FIVE

Sep 3

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Last night I made my final decision to go 1 set of beads longer before moving onto transition. This equals to 12 more days from today on and makes things less pressured to reach to my final goal.

Began yesterday with (light) weight training and keeping my treadmill in. I really need to work on muscles, they have been neglected for far too long. Today I am back on milk. Definitely the more boring days.

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Day TWENTY-FOUR

Sep 2

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Had a hard time getting up. But managed to get me and myself not only onto the treadmill but also starting with the weight program. After all of this I am feeling quite good.

Weight is dropping on a very constant rate of about 1/2 pound a day. Drinking a lot.

Had a win this morning, seeing my body fat finally drop, it’s now close to 30%.

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Day EIGHT

Aug 17

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This is day 1 of my second week. It’s a mixed bag of feelings I have here.

For one I woke up at around 4:30 AM and was no longer able to sleep. What me woke was one of my runs to the bathroom due to water pushing, possibly inspired by the quite heavy storms going on. After that there was no falling back into slumber as usual. It was not restless, it was just being awake. After 2 hours I gave in and got up.

As I had been really good yesterday, actually all week, and had absolutely no BLT – no Bite no Lick no Taste – I did assume same or lower weight as it had been now for one day after the other. But to my surprise my weight actually had bounced back a bit, my body fat barely moved down and this even though I had 12 cups (96 ounces) of hydration, 2  1/2 cups more than the recommended amount. As I have lost precisely 9 pounds in 1 week I am not bummed out about the weight, I am bummed that the weight went up after I “was a good girl”.

Then I did my weakly measuring. I am absolutely not into doing that and usually always a step I omit on other diets. I guess because I knew this would be a short ride for me I was just really curious and thought I’ll keep track. The measuring was not all what I wished for (I lost least where I would like it to be most), but mainly actually quite impressive. Over the course of the week I had already noticed that one of my new, favorite bras suddenly felt big,  even after shortening the shoulder strap, the cup size seemed to become too large too. I’m not somebody who’d be ever interested in enlarging my breasts, so I thought this development very welcome. What I did not expect though was the amount of shrinkage: 2 full inches not only in band size but also in bust size. Great. The other numbers were not quite as impressive but a moral boost nonetheless.

I did begin to get my morning treadmill back in which had began dropping out 10 days ago, and then with the first week of this program something I felt I did not want to push.

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