Starting Maintenance with The Diet Solution
Hi all. I've been a sometimes participant, and a lurker for quite a long time. I've been on and off Atkins, Zero Carbs, then off on a vegie/fruit/nut tangent but instead of screwing around with this and that, I've decided to use The Diet Solution.
This WOE is sort of a tweaked Atkin's Maintenance program and I hope to follow it to help me eat healthy and maintain my present weight (5'6"/135 lbs/65 years old). My purpose in posting will be to chart my progress, and I hope to encourage others too!! Besides it's really fun to meet new people and be part of a group of folks who are interested in health and wellness.
For me personally I've found some of the stricter programs make me feel terrific, but I can't sustain the momentum - I either want to add veggies and fruit/nuts to the meat thing, or I want to add meat to the veggie/fruit only thing.
So life being short, and me being at my optimum weight, I started looking around for some WOE that was kind of in the middle.
I found the carb ladder of Atkins difficult because I'm too impatient to add things back one and a time to get the correct balance. Instead The Diet Solution suggests a calorie level, a metabolic type, and food choices and meal plans to go along with that.
Ordinarily I HATE meal plans but in this case I'll use them for a few weeks until I have the pattern down, then I can wing it.
For the most part I'll be eating 'reasonable' portions of meat, mostly very low carb veggies, a small amount of low carb fruit, some nuts and nut butters, lots of coconut milk and oil, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, eggs, butter - and not much else. Oh, and blue agave as a sweetener.
Things I will NOT eat: all grains including corn, all dairy except butter, all prepared foods and all store bought treats.
I will be sprouting seeds and nuts to add to salads, and when a treat is called for I'll be using nuts and dates for 'pastry', and fruit mixtures and coconut products for fillings, and making 'ice cream' with coconut milk and frozen fruits - and other things like that. I will add HWC at times as well for 'company' treats.
So that's it. If anyone is interested in specifics about the metabolic typing, or other information on The Diet Solution just ask.
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