I have recovered from the Great Potato Salad Debacle of 2007 and am now at 260.2 pounds. It was so not worth eating the potato salad to wander around in 264+ land for two weeks, and I have learned my lesson. I’ve also been off chocolate for over four weeks now. Yeah me!
Now, a little while ago I mentioned a fruit diet that gave me a boost in the right direction. I’d like to share a little more of that with you today. I found it in Woman’s World magazine, the July 24th, 2007 edition, page 18. The magazine recommends that you eat huge helpings of fresh fruit all day, as much as you’d like, and then for dinner, fix yourself a good-sized salad and a serving of protein. The people featured in the article averaged a weight loss of a pound a day, and the program was followed for fourteen days.
I do want to emphasize right off the bat that this is, in no way, meant to be a lifestyle. It is a temporary eating plan to kick-start the metabolism and is only meant to be lived for a maximum of two weeks. If you were to go on this diet for long amounts of time, you would be robbing your body of other nutrients that it badly needs.
I did this eating plan a couple of weeks ago. The first day, I was hungry beyond belief, but I found that watermelon filled me up. I also found that the watermelon went right through me, and the next morning, I had already lost two pounds. That is phenomenal, and I was giddy with glee.
My main concern in following this plan was my desire to stay strong. So by the afternoon of the second day, I started supplementing the diet a little bit. One of the recommended snacks was fruit put in the blender with just a little water to make a smoothie, and I took it a step further and added a little protein powder to that. I also ate a small slice of cheese here and there, and added a boiled egg to my dinner salad at night.
After being hungry the first day, I settled right into the program. I did find, though, that after seven days, my body seemed ready to shift back to normal eating, and so I did. However, I lost six pounds and have kept it off, the potato salad incident affecting two pounds I’ve lost since then. The fruit diet six pounds remain unscathed.
Would I recommend this program? Yes, I would. It cleanses your system out, it reduces sugar cravings, and after the first day, you start having a lot of energy. I do encourage you to supplement the protein if you feel yourself getting too weak – this is a healthy step, not meant to tear you down.
Would I do it again? You bet, and I plan to. Because I only did one week, I feel like I have another week in the bank and plan to start tomorrow morning. You could probably do a cycle every three or four months, as long as you do it wisely and without starving yourself.
Fruit is a great internal cleanser, and one of the main problems that overweight individuals have is an unclean internal system. When your system is clean, everything works much better, and can come into balance to create the kind of body you’ve always wanted – a healthy one!
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