Weddingbee Blog

I always need to add fresh fruits and vegetables. Even when I’m eating my healthiest, I’m not getting anywhere near as many veggies as I should. If only they weren’t so darn inconvenient compared to…y’know…convenience foods.

Honestly, 1,200 cals is a bit too little…it all depends on your weight, though. I lost 70 pounds on the South Beach Diet. I reccommend it totally.

This is what I did and I lost 14 lbs in one month.

Cut out soda and juice. Drank a lot of water and tea. I drink coffee occasionally. Ate cereal/yogurt/tea OR cereal/fruit/tea for breakfast, a turkey or Peanut Butter sandwich for lunch on whole wheat bread and a Slim Fast shake, snack on fruits or nuts, and eat a sensible dinner. Blackberries are good for dessert.

I also do ab exercises almost every day, see my trainer once a week, and do the elliptical for 20 minutes a couple times a week.

My trainer says I need to eat more fats and protein. He recommends cottage cheese (yuck), nuts, eggs, and even fish oil supplements. He even recommended adding olive oil to my turkey sandwiches.

I just cut out the sweets and started eating smaller more frequent healthier meals. I was a big junk foodie back in the day. While the scale says I haven’t lost any weight (nor gained any) my body’s shape has changed. I recently started doing a couple different workout videos a couple times a week plus power walking for at least an hour a week. Hopefully, some of those inches will start to disappear!

I did the WW/Points Plan and I have lost A LOT of weight. I am not sure how much, I don’t have a scale at home, although the scale at the gym shows about 20+ pounds.

I would try to keep the points low during the day, like under 5 points until 5pm so I could use them up at night without exceeding the 20 points. Tons of raw vegetables like baby carrots, celery… allow myself to eat as much of that as I wanted, really.

I’ve reduced calorie intake, eat healthier food, and make sure I burn around 2000 calories a week.

My mom used to swear by WW, but she wasn’t losing weight lately. I FINALLY convinced her to count calories and you know what? She’s finally losing weight, and after all fo these years she said…”you were right!”

Ha! I love it! : )

(she wasn’t eating enough on WW…it’s very easy to starve yourself on that program)

I try to make my three meals about 400 calories (most of the time my breakfast is 200 cals and my lunch and dinner are 500 calories though) and I have a few snacks that are all under 100 calories and work out 3-5 times a week. So far it’s been working really well. I really want to look good in my wedding dress :-).

Mrs. Bee - I’ll have to ask my trainer if fish oil supplements make you go deuce. I know my FFIL is taking them and he hasn’t had any side effects. But then again he is a male so I’m sure the effects are different for men vs. women.