Monday, December 28, 2009

New Year Regimen


It's December 28, 2009.  So I have about 4 days to perfect my New Year's resolutions.  I'm trying to decide which diet I want to start the new year with or if I should make my own.  I heard green tea is good for your metabolism which I'm afraid will be shot from fasting too much.  So I'm wondering if I went on a green tea fast, if it would help my metabolism a bit.  I'm stuck at 108 lbs at the moment, and I refuse to let my weight stay there.  I was also thinking about doing the ABC Diet for the first 50 days of 2010.  I heard it provides great results, however tedious and harsh it is to endure.  Or I could do one of those fruit diets.  Which I suppose could be turned into a vegetable diet if I wanted to tweak it a bit.  Fruit is pleasurable to eat and has few calories so that diet sounds like a nice one.  Or I could only eat salads.  Salads and water....  I'll let you know which one I end up doing, or maybe a combination I dunno.

So I haven't eaten in about 17 hours.  All I've had is green tea and water for those 17 hours.  0 calories.  Now I'm feeling quite sick.  When I'm not eating like this my body doesn't always feel sick.  Sometimes I feel fine, free, empty, and light.  But sometimes I have horrible hunger pangs, or I feel so incredibly sick to my stomach that I can hardly move, like right now.  It's a trick of the dice.

So I'm planning on eating a chicken caesar salad and a lot of cold water.  I may make it carbonated water.  No calories, but helps the sick feeling.  I won't eat much.  I'm forcing my stomach to be able to eat less and less.  Make it a habit and I won't even have to think about it anymore.

With my strict regime I will be making for the new year, I will put some rules in place for myself.  Certain expectations I must obey for the year unless I change it to a more fitting rule for weight-loss.  Plus, certain things just make me sick thinking about it.  I'm thinking about a few things...  never eat sweets.  No high-sugar food.  I have a sweet tooth and I'm going to break that.  Also, no beef and no pork.  Chicken and fish are alright.  So I'm not going all-vegetarian.  Just cutting out the beef and pork in my diet.  No junk food (potato chips, snack foods.)  Lessen milk content (milk kind of grosses me out sometimes.)  And in the exercise portion I'm going to push myself much more than I have been.  At the moment I'm not very fit.  Ballet is out for the holidays and won't start back up until January 4th (when school starts as well.)  And I haven't been able to go to the gym.  Also it's too cold to run outside.  As soon as possible, I will exercise as much as possible.  In the meantime, I'm working hard on my flexibility.  Another thing is that when I got back to school (Jan 4) I want to be thinner than I was when I left.  No question about it.

2 comments:

  1. I know what you mean about hunger! Sometimes it feels amazing and then sometimes it just hurts soooo bad.

    ABC tends to yield good results throughout the whole thing but I've never known of anyone who's finished it! I've tried and re-tried it a couple of times but never got past a week or two, but I still lost a good bit of weight considering the short time I did it. I think it just seems kind of daunting, it being 50 days and whatnot and it being so strict so people tend to get discouraged. But I'm sure if you really put your mind to it you could finish it with fantastic results. : ) It's worth a shot anyway!

    My whole family has decided to go on a diet for new year's so my restricting won't seem as weird anymore! I'd love to do an all-fruit diet! Good luck to you on all your New Year's plans. : )

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  2. I would love to try ABC after I get used to restricting again so if you try it let me know how it goes... I think it would be very hard though but then again this lifestyle isn't easy.

    I'm also starting a completely new exercise and restriction regime, it's going to be hard to start off with because I have let myself go the past few months but I'm dying to get back to where I was so it will be worth it :)

    Keep updating about you new year's plan when you decide, I think that doing a combo of fruit, vegetables and salads is a great idea though! Good luck, stay strong xx

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