Soooo....last night was Saturday. Like most Saturday nights, David (the boyfriend) and I ate out. On a diet, dining out can be rather difficult. Before going out, I researched nearby restaurants and the menus. I chose a local restaurant, Amelia's Bistro, and ordered the Alaskan Salmon with lemon spinach without the chic peas and bread crumbs. I looked up the sugar/carb ratio for wine and noticed their was only 1 gram of sugar and no carbs in 5oz (I only had 1 5oz glass). For appetizer, we had cured meats and cheese instead of the bread and hummus they always serve. Even though my sugar and carb intake was very low and almost none, I didn't lose weight yesterday NOR did I gain. My numbers were the exact same as the day before. I guess I should mention that I followed the diets protocol for breakfast, snack, and lunch. My question is why didn't my numbers change even though I took in less sugar and carbs than I would've if I had've eaten the required dinner? The dinner I was suppose to eat was the chicken breast with the mozzarella with spaghetti and pasta sause on the side. Hmmm.
In the book, Jorge says that it's not about how many calories you ingest, it's about the type of calories. But I beg to differ. Clearly, watching the sugar and carb intake definitely aids in weight loss because this helps keep your insulin levels low and steady. Low insulin levels result in less stored fat. But I'd have to say that the amount of calories you take in and burn play a part too, as we've heard for many years. Last night I didn't count how many calories I ate but I know I had more than what was in the dinner I was suppose to have eaten. I left the restaurant "full as a tick". I was overly satisfied and I didn't burn extra calories yesterday. Needless to say, I don't have any regrets. Normally, I finish a night at Amelia's with a huge brownie ice cream fudge sundae with reese pieces and whip cream. I resisted. I did good!
I digress...
I will continue the original protocol for the next 3 days so that I won't let you down on my 7 day journey. I might even go an extra day to make up for last night but I can't make any promises. What I do want to do is continue this low sugar low carb eating lifestyle but add more fruits and vegetables. I need more fiber and chlorophyll (dark green leafy foods) and I might be willing to let go of the whole grains in order to do that....hmmm. Not sure yet. What do you think????
I would agree with your assessment regarding the amount of calories is still important. Further, I think that there is no weight loss plan that can be perfect for each person. You have to take, as you are doing and writing about, smart decisions from each and curtail them to what works for you. I can eat carbs all day and lose weight, or just not gain any weight. However, too many carbs make me crash so I try not to. However, if eat heavy cakes each day, will gain weight. If I cut them out even just for a week, I lose a lot of weight quickly. So, it just depends I would say. Too much of anything is not good, but too little of nutrients and even carbs, bad bad. As we have learned, our bodies are smart and if we deprive it of what IT thinks it needs, then it changes course and will store what it normally would not and so forth. You did not gain any weight. It could be that since you did the diet for everything but your dinner, and you probably did not go straight to bed, right? You just leveled out...not enough calorie loss to lose weight but not enough to gain weight. It takes so many calories to gain a lb...you must not have had enough calories to calories burned to gain any weight. Now, how you really tell (still hard to do) is if you have a scale that shows you if you gain even less than a lb...like 1/4th of a pound...then you really can tell. I think your assessment is right about how many calories you intake does matter...balanced with what kind of calories you intake. I think it all makes sense.
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