The Crash Vegas Diet
Having planned my vacation for the last week of August, I am faced with needing to wear a swimsuit in public in two weeks for my one night on a Florida beach, and then 5 days later while in Vegas lazing about the pool at the Mandalay Bay. But I've been a bad Sara, and do not currently feel swimsuit-worthy. The answer? A challenge to myself to see if I can drop 5 pounds by the time I leave for Vegas on Sept. 3rd.
Luckily, being tall and weighing more generally means that stringing together several pounds lost in 2.5 weeks is not as hard for me as it is for some. The bad part of that is, it takes more to make a noticeable difference. So, how am I going to do it?
1. I'm eating under 1400 calories a day. This is not that hard to do for me, but I'm going to accomplish it by eating as many fruits and vegetables as I can, and cutting meat out of my diet as much as I can for the next 17 days. I will still eat seafood, however, because it's just too hard for me to go full vegetarian. The usual breakdown of a day will look like this:
Breakfast: fruit and a diet coke, possibly with greek yogurt
Lunch: Salad or sandwich of some sort from takeout, or a frozen Lean Cuisine/Healthy Choice/etc. meal
Afternoon snack: 100 calorie popcorn bag, fruit, carrots
Dinner: takeout sushi, margherita pizza, or if I'm really good a homecooked meal of mostly vegetables with possibly some seafood.
Dessert: Sorbet du jour (I am currently obsessed with sorbet)
2. I'm spending an hour a day, EVERY DAY, on the treadmill. No ifs ands or buts. However, over the next 17 days I am giving myself 2 days off as needed for work purposes.
3. I'm doing 100 sit-ups every single morning or night. Gotta get some ab muscles back in evidence.
4. Drinking no more than twice a week, light beer or wine only. I bet you were thinking that sample menu up there looked mighty light, right? Well, I have to save the calories for an adult beverage now and then. Also the occasional inescapable chocolate craving.
I'll let you know on September 2nd how I've done...
4 comments:
Honestly, if you can possibly stand it, a couple weeks of South Beach phase one will pull 10 pounds off pretty reliably.
I can never stick to those...way too restrictive for my tastes.
Completely agree with Nikki. Doing an anti-inflammatory diet (which is similar to South Beach) for a week will do wonders.
Also, I would cut out the Diet Coke and Lean Cuisine. But everyone's body is different.
My problem is that I cannot prepare all of my own meals for 2 weeks, and I find that South Beach or similar diets require it for that initial "induction" period because virtually everything you can get in a restaurant has something on the banned list. I wish I could do this, but it just doesn't work. (This is why I loved Weight Watchers--nothing was off-limits if you just made good choices and controlled portions. But I digress.)
I did cut back to only 2 diet cokes today. Trying to stick to that throughout...but not sure I can give it up altogether.
Lean Cuisine is a last resort when I am stuck at the office at lunchtime because it's smarter than ordering in (which is always terrible for me.) They are full of chemicals and pretty terrible, but I have a couple stashed in the office freezer for emergencies.
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