Dr. Oz's Rapid Two-Week Weight Loss Plan

Diet blogging.  SO not my favorite thing to read, and SO not my favorite thing to write, but it's my hope that by including daily blogging into this diet, I can stay on track (nothing like being accountable to potentially millions of strangers).  While I'm excited about this diet, I'm also SUPER worried about cravings for things like salt (my weakness) or red meat (my other weakness).  It's not so much the *adding* healthy food as it is the *removing* of other foods.

What is this mysterious diet plan, you ask?  Well, during Spring Break I was watching Dr. Oz and he was (of course) talking about weight loss.  But what struck me is the number of women who were losing weight with all kinds of body shapes and (likely) weight gain reasons.  The average was eight pounds, but some women were losing more.  It made me feel hopeful.  So I did some research on the Dr. Oz website, found the information, and yesterday I went grocery shopping.

8 POUNDS, 2 WEEKS, I CAN DO THIS.

And then last night, I binged on sushi and soda and things I won't get to have for two weeks.  My advice for the first day of a diet: don't weigh yourself.  Wait until day 2, because let's be honest my weight this morning wasn't really my "true" weight.  Saturday morning was closer, but certainly not today.  So I'll check in with weight and measurements tomorrow.

The parameters of the diet are pretty simple:

NO: - Sugar - Artificial Sweeteners - Caffeine (except green tea) - Dairy - Alcohol - Wheat - Additional exercise (YAY!) - Eating after 8:00 pm

YES: - Hot water+half a lemon upon waking - Breakfast Smoothie from recipe - Probiotic and Multivitamin - 1 serving brown rice - 1 serving chicken or fish - 1 serving Greek yogurt - Moderate plant fats - All the low Glycemic Index veggies you can handle

Hopefully it goes without saying that you should also take any medication you're on.

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So far, I'm doing well.  I haven't eaten lunch yet because I had breakfast late, so it's hard to mess that part up, but I haven't touched the candy that sits on my desk at the office and I haven't broken down for a soda yet.  Small steps.

Based on this morning, here are some tips so far:
- Don't put your hot water with lemon in your coffee thermos; lemon + coffee aftertaste is just gross
- Get disposable cups, lids, and straws so you can take your smoothie with you and throw it away when you're done (weird advice coming from someone as green as I try to be, I know) *see the picture below*

Breakfast!

- On that note, make sure you put the flax seed and rice protein powder in furthest from the blade (so first if you're doing a single-serving blender cup with a blade that screws on the bottom and last if you're loading it from the top)
- Learn to eat new foods!  I'm making eggplant this week.  We'll see how that goes.

I'll try to update at least every other day, and I'll definitely be doing measurements in the next couple of days.  I'm not really worried about losing weight OR in losing inches from a cosmetic standpoint - I LOVE my body for what it does for me, and so I love how it looks (more on that in a future post) - but *because* I love my body I can recognize that weighing less and eating healthier would be a better way to care for my body.  So.  Diet.