Sandy701's Journal, 14 Apr 12

Walked 3.1 miles this morning with DH and doggies along for 2.3 miles of it. Glorious sunshine, nice breeze, temperature about 70....all in all a great start to the day.

Walked the .7-mile loop late yesterday. Today will be my LAST day doing that! While it didn't nudge my weight downward, I did prove to myself that it's truly no big deal to fit in just 10 minutes of something every day. By the end of the week, you can say you did an HOUR, or even more, of exercise....just doing that little bit each day. But, for me, on top of the AM walking, well, all it did was make me hungry and tired for the next day's walking PLUS it did nothing for weight loss.

This week's "Tweak of the Week" will be a major one. DH and I discussed it over breakfast and he's committed to doing it with me....although we both are only committing to it for 1 week...NO ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS & NO SUGAR ALCOHOLS!

This is going to be extremely hard for both of us. While Induction rules say to limit sweeteners to only 3, I never did that....and it seemed to not be an issue for me at all. Even in OWL, no big issues arose....my weight loss kept humming along, not at a break-neck pace, but at a slower, moderate pace. So, I figured I could always adjust if I needed to.....and then I never needed to.....until now.

Well, it's time to try this adjustment. DH and I talked through what's OFF the menu this week and we took some time to go back and read some labels.

A partial list of what's off-limits this week include: Atkins bars (and shakes), s/f candies, s/f breath mints, Nutra-Sweet and Truvia (for iced tea and other uses), diet soda (BIG groan!), reduced sugar ketchup (it has sucralose in it), s/f Jello, s/f puddings, pressurized whipping cream, s/f pancake syrup, and powdered whey protein (has sucralose). DH uses some of the above more than I do, but it's a partial listing of some of the "culprits" we have on hand currently.

We begin this adjustment with tomorrow morning's breakfast (had to squeeze in my pancakes this AM). This is going to be rough....not happy about it, but if one is testing a theory, it's best to cut the sweeteners down to zero rather than just cutting back a bit.

Please understand if my journal gets a bit grumpy this week....LOL!!


EDIT: Walked the .7-mile loop for the last time as a "later PM exercise" today. Stick a fork in me....I'm SO done with that!

70.3 kg Lost so far: 36.3 kg.    Still to go: 4.5 kg.    Diet followed: Reasonably Well.

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1372 kcal

Fat: 89.77g | Prot: 81.77g | Carbs: 82.80g.   Breakfast: blueberries, Maple Grove Farms Sugar Free Pancake Mix, Mrs. Butterworth's Sugar Free Syrup, butter, egg . Lunch: Sargento baby Swiss cheese slice, Applegate Farms uncured Black Forest ham. Dinner: Philadelphia Original Cream Cheese (foil bricks), Kraft Shredded Parmesan cheese, heavy cream, Hunt's no salt added tomato sauce, Kraft shredded colby jack cheese, Pieces & Stems Mushrooms, Kraft shredded mozzarella cheese, Hunt's petite diced tomatoes, Hormel turkey pepperoni, eggs, Armenian cucumber, romaine, Organicville non-dairy ranch dressing, salad toppins. Snacks/Other: Land O' Lakes Sugar Free Whipped Heavy Cream (pressurized - purple cap), Jello Sugar Free Rice Pudding - Creme Brulee, Atkins Day Break Chocolate Hazelnut Bar, Jones cherrywood smoked bacon, Sargento string cheese. more...

1895 kcal

Exercise: Walking (exercise) - 3.5/mph - 53 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 7 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...