Isallgood ~
You had such a successful weekend. I am very proud of you - and your friends deserve a
trophy for assisting you - see? Your success will be their success, too. I'd tell them how much you appreciate their encouragement - reinforce their good behavior and it is likely to occur again and again!
re:
I do have one question. I don't want to sound like a party girl or anything but after the diet can we have a drink here and there?
Dear Party Girl ~
Yes, there
IS life once you get to your goal.
I would
not recommend having any alcohol during phase one (weight loss) of your Take Shape Program because alcohol is metabolized as a sugar – alcohol is a carbohydrate with non nutritive values, and since it is not balanced with protein and fat, it is generally stored as energy for later (flab) if not used soon after ingestion. It makes us vulnerable to extra nibbling, too.
Just remember that the day the scale
announces that you have arrived, it is not a license to
pork-out.
After weight loss, you go through transition (phase 2) and then begin phase three where your weight begins to permanently stabilize, it is best to gradually increase your caloric intake over a period of time.
For people like me who had
a lot of weight to lose and were on phase one for a long time, I very slowly began to increase the calories and was careful with the types of foods I ate – I truly avoided the higher glycemic foods.
If I have a tropical paradise beverage with a little umbrella or a glass of suds, it seems to affect me rapidly and make me ravenous – I could eat my weight in French fries…and I did it several times this summer.
Honestly, I had eaten French fries MAYBE twice in over two years and then this summer we’ve gone to Red Robin’s several times for birthdays, family gatherings and their beer creates
FRENCH FRIES FRENZY. I am no longer allowed to enter the doors of RR until I get de-flabbed…