Over the weekend Superman and I purchased Chris Powell's book Choose to Lose. Sunday while Superman was watching football I devoured it. I read that thing pretty much from front to back. We started yesterday morning on this new plan.
In his book, Powell suggests Seven Day Carb-Cycling with one of the seven days being a free day (or a high carb day). He recommends drinking one (1) gallon of water per day, interval training cardio six days a week, and strength training (different variations of squats, sit ups, and push ups) three days a week. Also, instead of eating three meals a day, he says to eat five with smaller calorie portions (not large meals five times a day) to keep the metabolic furnace burning!
Yesterday was our first low carb day. Sunday night we prepared our meals for the day.
Even though days rotate from being low carb to high carb, every morning is a higher-carb breakfast. Yesterday morning we had a breakfast sandwich.
That was egg substitute (seasoned with Mrs. Dash), chopped up tomatoes, salsa, and a half (Superman had a whole) multigrain muffin. It was pretty satisfying.
Snacks for the day (at 9am and 3pm) were a peanut butter chocolate protein shake and "Cottage Cheese on the Border" which consisted of non-fat cottage cheese, salsa, tomatoes, and avocado. (Anyone have suggestions on cutting up avocado - Chris suggested slices, but neither of us liked the hard avocado. We were considering making a low carb Guacamole as a substitute.)
I don't have a picture of our lunches, but it consisted of ground turkey, lettuce, salsa, and fat free shredded cheddar cheese.
When we got home from work we went for our half hour of cardio and then prepared dinner - it was Chicken Veggie Parmesan Marinara. We didn't have all of the veggies the recipe called for so we substituted with other low carb choices.
We cut a chicken breast in half and cooked it while also sauteing mushrooms and red and green bell peppers.
It was quite good.
Oh, we also put three tablespoons of marinara sauce on top, and also sprinkled reduced fat parmesan cheese on top. That really added to the flavor (along with the Mrs. Dash that the chicken was seasoned with)
Well, that's all for now. I'll post again later today about or meals today.
In his book, Powell suggests Seven Day Carb-Cycling with one of the seven days being a free day (or a high carb day). He recommends drinking one (1) gallon of water per day, interval training cardio six days a week, and strength training (different variations of squats, sit ups, and push ups) three days a week. Also, instead of eating three meals a day, he says to eat five with smaller calorie portions (not large meals five times a day) to keep the metabolic furnace burning!
Yesterday was our first low carb day. Sunday night we prepared our meals for the day.
Even though days rotate from being low carb to high carb, every morning is a higher-carb breakfast. Yesterday morning we had a breakfast sandwich.
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| Breakfast Sandwich - and on a football plate! |
Snacks for the day (at 9am and 3pm) were a peanut butter chocolate protein shake and "Cottage Cheese on the Border" which consisted of non-fat cottage cheese, salsa, tomatoes, and avocado. (Anyone have suggestions on cutting up avocado - Chris suggested slices, but neither of us liked the hard avocado. We were considering making a low carb Guacamole as a substitute.)
I don't have a picture of our lunches, but it consisted of ground turkey, lettuce, salsa, and fat free shredded cheddar cheese.
When we got home from work we went for our half hour of cardio and then prepared dinner - it was Chicken Veggie Parmesan Marinara. We didn't have all of the veggies the recipe called for so we substituted with other low carb choices.
It was quite good.
Oh, we also put three tablespoons of marinara sauce on top, and also sprinkled reduced fat parmesan cheese on top. That really added to the flavor (along with the Mrs. Dash that the chicken was seasoned with)
Well, that's all for now. I'll post again later today about or meals today.
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