Nope, I'm not exactly starting over. I'm re-planning what I'm doing.
About Laura - I met her on Friday, she is going to be my coach.
Let's go back in time, before I started RH and Poon. Even though I knew at the time I was going to RH and I was planning on going to Poon, I saw something else: Ideal Protein. AJ and I were at the medical building visiting one of his doctors and when we came out, I stopped into the pharmacy to look around. They had IP info. I slufted (?) it off as it had prepackaged foods - and I was going to eat real foods. Time went on, I went to RH and Poon.
We had to go to AJ's doc at the medical building about 2 weeks ago. Again I looked at the IP and asked if I could look at the foods. Huh. Took a card, left. Then next day threw the card away as I didn't want to start something new, or pay for counselling etc with it.
About a few days after going to AJ's appointment, I was on Facebook and somehow clicked join on Ideal Protein. I wasn't overly thinking and for some reason thought it was protein group with Poon. I started getting the postings and realized my oophs. But I didn't delete my joining. The more I saw they were having success, and the more I was frustrated with my very slow weight loss, the more I kept thinking about it. Until last Thursday night. I told AJ I wanted to look into it.
Friday morning I looked up, found one at a medical building closer to home, called it. Spoke with Laura. She was thinking of booking me in the next week to talk with her, I said anytime today? I could get there at 10am. Yes. I booted it up there and spoke with her. Before I left, I told AJ I was going to do this (provided it was $$$$$$$$$$$$ to join etc). As I spoke with Laura, I knew I was going to do this right then. Joining didn't cost, but I had to buy some packages of food, and some vits. I bought an extra package for a change. Each package has 7 packages in it for 7 days of that meal.
I got:
B - 7 chocolate chip pancakes
L - 7 mushroom risotto and 7 orange wafers (allowed one package per lunch) plus veg
D - is protein as in meat, and veg
S - 7 caramel bars and 7 vanilla crispy squares (allowed one package per snack. As I am starting, I am allowed 2 snacks for the first week/two weeks)
I am planning with the snacks to just do 1 snack per day since I am already doing low carb/Poon.
IP is basically low carb/low fat/higher protein/low cals. I told Laura that I still wanted to lose about 40-50 pounds. She said that I would need to be on Phase 1 for 3 months. Works for me. Overall the daily foods are:
- unlimited lettuce/spinach/cucumbers/celery (oh yeah! 😜)
- 4 cups of limited veg daily, and there is another 4 cups per week one 1 cup choice of higher carb veg allowed
- Water...water.....water....water.....water....
- 3 packages of food per day: 2 meals, and 1 snack. There are restricted packages that are allowed but only 1 per day. Eg my risotto and caramel bar are both restricted so I can only have one choice per day that day: either eat the risotto and vanilla square, or a wafer and a caramel bar. The pancakes aren't restricted and I can eat them every morning.
- 8oz of raw meat protein
- NO CHEATING
I have spent the last couple of days reading blogs, websites, and FB posts (found more IP sites to join) to learn to understand IP better. I planned to start today: Sunday. Which I have. Had pancakes and coffee for breakfast...and lots of water.
The pancakes weren't bad. Learnt I am allowed 2 egg whites free per day, and that adding some whites to the pancakes helps. Also can make a lot of other things with a lot of other packages. Will need to buy extras this week! I think I need to clean out a spot too to keep them in. I did clean out all of the Poon foods. Moved some over to the other freezer for later, and ate a lot of the open ones over the last 2 days (with AJ's help). Biggest thing IP uses too is Waldern products - which I have some, so that was a blessing. And I know what they taste like. IP people add things to them to make them taste better - Poon people don't. I like the IP plan of making them taste better! ha ha ha.
I have downloaded lots of recipe ideas. Now I need to fix them into easy reading order. Reading all the blogs etc has helped me better understand what I can do. Like my 4 cups of veg per day - I don't need to just have 2 cups at lunch and 2 cups at dinner, I can mix them up and have 1 cup at breakfast etc. I need to buy the chocolate drink mix package - apparently people mix that with water/coffee, and a cup of spinach! I need to try that!
Also I can mix up my meats - like eggs and chicken equaling 8oz. Also can have some meat at lunch.
I like this idea at the moment as it's more followable then Poon's flexibility. I'm too flexible with Poon and just eating too much/losing weight slowly. I know I can do 2 pounds a week as I have always done that. I just am losing interest or following with Poon. NOT with low carb. And I can see I will want to be maintaining whatever program as Low Carb. Poon's eat meat when hungry doesn't go well with me as I'm usually thinking (key word) I'm hungry. With IP it's stricter. I like flexibility, but feel at the moment I need stricter. I want to lose weight. I do want to be healthy, and I know losing slowly, carefully is good.... I just want to get somewhere with this weight loss. As it's been, with Poon, I am too slow to feel interested/motivated to continue. NOT that I am giving up - even if IP didn't work and I'd have to go back to continuing Poon's plan - I just need a shake up interest. Follow?
I haven't been able to get back to Phase 1 with Poon. I just can't seem to do it. I've been praying about it, and IP kept popping up. I am not stopping going to the Poon clinic at the moment either, even though I see Laura every Friday for weigh in and 'shopping'. I also am praying the IP foods will be tolerable on my stomach etc. Waldern's is a times challenging on my system, I figure if I can limit the use of it to what I really need it on, I should (hopefully) be ok.
So that's my big excitement. Was it worth the wondering and wait? 😺 ha ha. I will of course continue to write my blog on what's happening - now it will have a new plan included. Will see how it works out.
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