Dreamgirl here! - Lakita's pursuit of "the bikini"

In the first phase of my Best Life Diet I didn’t have to make any drastic changes to what I ate.  As a matter of fact I didn’t make any significant changes to what I was eating but when was.  I did have to put myself on a regular meal schedule and having a big breakfast was perhaps the most challenging because I usually don’t eat and entire breakfast in the morning.  Usually I eat a piece of fruit or some yogurt and save the real meal for late morning or lunch time.  But changing my eating time in the morning was and still is a challenge.  Stopping the night time eating two hours before I go to sleep was cake, however.  But it allowed me to snack at later times because I usually don’t go to bed until late.  Before I started the diet I stopped eating before 7:00 as a rule but this new one just gave me license to have a later snack.  Even after all of this schedule shifting I was still hungry and some days hungrier than before.  I know this was because I started working out after being completely sedentary for a year during my pregnancy not to mention that I’m nursing an infant.  I also think that my nursing contributed to not only being hungry all the time but perhaps my body is resisting any weight loss.  Most of my girlfriends lost significant ‘poundage’ while they were nursing.  I mean so much so that they were the thinnest I had ever seen them.  A few of them on the other hand didn’t lose anything until they stopped.  Of course this would probably me.

I’m feeling discouraged right now but I will continue to ‘press on toward the mark.’ I’m going to have to make a few drastic changes myself because I know how my body is from past experiences.  For one I’m going to ramp up my workouts on my off days.  I have been doing the elliptical machine sporadically but now I’m going to strap myself to one.  Cutting down my portion sizes are another.  I don’t think I eat a lot but the scale obviously says something else.  What I’m going to eat differently is a mystery.  My husband and I went through our kitchen last night and he commented that he couldn’t remember the last time he saw white bread, pasta, rice, or white potatoes in the house.  I simply don’t buy them and we rarely eat out anymore since the baby was born.  Fried food has been a no no for both of us since before we got married and we look at every label before we buy to make sure it has no Trans fats.  As a matter of fact I bought my first loaf of bread (it was 12 grain whole wheat) since the beginning of last summer only because I needed the fiber.  High fat foods like ice cream and cakes haven’t seen the inside of my kitchen in over a year, and it’s not because they aren’t welcome, trust me! So for phase II, changing my food choices is a little tricky, cutting back on the amounts may be the only change.