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15 changes you should have made by now:
Regular soda to diet
Sugar to splenda
Salad Dressing to vinegar
Mayo to mustard
Regular bread to low carb/high fiber bread
Butter to spray margarine
Walking to jogging
Any dessert to sugar free jello and/or FF cool whip
Food diary in a notebook to fitday.com
Regular soups to broth from a bullion cube
Eggs to egg whites
Greasy crunchy snack to pickles or ricecakes
“I can’t have that food” to “I don’t want that food”
Fatty sauces to salsa
Lean ground beef to ground turkey
Fruit juice to whole fruit
Cake or brownies to angel food
Bagel half to English muffin half
Pasta to brown rice
Eyeballing portions to actually measuring them out (then put in little ziplocks)
“I look fat today” to “I’m going to look so hot in a few weeks”
Sacred Heart Medical Diet
This 7-day eating plan can be used as often as you like. If correctly followed, it will clean out your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well-being. After only 7 days of this process, you will begin to feel lighter by at least 10 pounds and possibly 17 pounds, and experience an abundance of energy.
SOUP:
1 or 2 cans of stewed tomatoes
3 plus large green onions
1 large can of beef broth (no fat)
1 pkg. Lipton Soup mix (chicken noodle)
1 bunch of celery
2 cans green beans
2 lbs. Carrots
2 Green Peppers
Season with salt, pepper curry, parsley, if desired, or bouillon, hot or Worcestershire sauce. Cut veggies in small to medium pieces. Cover with water. Boil fast for 10 minutes. Reduce to simmer and continue to cook until veggies are tender.
This soup can be eaten anytime you are hungry during the week. Eat as much as you want, whenever you want. This soup will not add calories. The more you eat, the more you will lose. You may want to fill a thermos in the morning if you will be away during the day.
DRINKS:
Unsweetened juices
Tea (also herbal)
Coffee
Cranberry juice
Skim milk
Water, water, water
DAY ONE
Any fruit (except bananas). Cantaloupes and watermelon are lower in calories than most other fruits. Eat only soup and fruit today.
DAY TWO
All vegetables. Eat until you are stuffed with fresh raw, cooked or canned veggies. Try to eat green leafy veggies and stay away from dry beans, peas or corn. Eat veggies along with the soup. At dinnertime tonight reward yourself with a big baked potato and butter. Don't eat any fruits through today.
DAY THREE
Eat all the soup, fruit and veggies you want. Do not have a baked potato. If you have eaten as above for three days and not cheated, you should find that you have lost 5-7 pounds.
DAY FOUR
Bananas and skim milk: Eat at least 3 bananas and drink as much milk as you can today, along with the soup. Bananas are high in calories and carbohydrates, as is the milk but on this particular day, your body will need the potassium and carbs. Proteins and calcium to lessen the cravings for sweets.
DAY FIVE
Beef and tomatoes: you may have 10 to 20 ounces of beef and a can of tomatoes, or as many as 6 tomatoes on this day. Eat the soup at least once today.
DAY SIX
Beef and veggies, eat to your heart's content of the beef and veggies today. You can even have 2-3 steaks if you like with green leafy veggies but no baked potato. Be sure to eat the soup at least once today.
DAY SEVEN
Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juice and veggies, again, be sure to stuff yourself and eat the soup. You can add cooked veggies to your rice if you wish.
By the end of the 7th day, if you have not cheated on this diet, you should have lost 10 to 17 pounds. If you have lost more than 17 pounds, stay off the diet for two days before resuming the diet again.
This diet is fast. The secret lies within the principle that you will burn more calories than you take in. It will flush your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well-being. This diet does not lend itself to drinking any alcoholic beverages at any time. Because of the fat build-up in your system. Go off the diet at least 14 hours before any intake of alcohol.
Due to the variety of digestive systems in individuals, this diet will affect everyone differently. After day three, you will have more energy than when you began, if you do not cheat. After being on the diet for several days, you will find that your bowel movements have changed. Eat a cup of bran or fiber. Although you can have black coffee with this diet, you may find that you don't need caffeine after the third day.
The basic fat burning soup can be eaten anytime you feel hungry during the seven days. Eat as much as you wish. Remember the more you eat, the more you will lose. You can eat broiled, boiled or baked chicken instead of the beef. Absolutely no skin on the chicken. If you prefer, you can substitute broiled fish for the beef on only one of the beef days. You need the high protein in the beef for the other days.
Continue on the diet as long as you wish and feel the difference both mentally and physically.
DO NOT - DO NOT
No bread, alcohol, carbonated drinks (including diet drinks). Remember, absolutely no fried foods.
DO - DO - DO - DO
Drink plenty - at least 6 to 8 glasses - of water a day, as well as any combination of the following beverages: black coffee, unsweetened fruit drinks, cranberry juice and skim milk.
This diet comes from the Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital that is used for overweight heart patients in order to lose weight rapidly, usually prior to surgery.
Make your own bagged salad.
The pre-bagged stuff you get in grocery stores is a rip off. I know you’d rather spend that money on skinny jeans. Do this and you’ll have four bags worth of fresh salad that’ll stay crisp for a really long time, and cost the same as one of those premade bags. This is the method I learned from a former lettuce farmer who now owns a resteraunt.
First, you want to get out a giant bowl to make your mix. I like romaine and red leaf, but you should use whatever lettuce you prefer. Here’s how to prepare the three main kinds of lettuce:
Iceberg
After washing it off, bang the little core part on the counter really hard. You should now be able to twist it out. Cut the head into quarters, then use your hands to rip it in bite sized pieces into your bowl. Don’t use a knife for thisit’ll cause the lettuce to go brown around the edges in a few days.
Romaine
You’ll want to actually take a knife and cut the whole bottom off your romaine. In fact, since romaine is particularly suseptable to leaf burn around the edges, you’ll probably want to cut a little off the top, too. Don’t feel bad about wasting a tiny bit. A nice resteraunt would do this for you. Hand rip the rest and add it to your bowl.
Red leaf
Same as the romaine, only you shouldn’t need to cut any off the top.
You can add some purple cabbage, too, if you like, but personally, I don’t think the color is worth chopping an extra veggie.
Lightly toss your salad mix together.
Bagging it
You’ll want to put a paper towel folded in half in the bottom of every ziplock bag you keep your mix in. This absorbs the excess moiusture, keeping it fresh and crisp longer. Make sure you get all the air out of the bags before closing them.
Toppings
You’ll want to keep your toppings (cucmber, carrot, etc) sliced and prepared in a bag separate from the lettuce.
Cucumber
Don’t peel the skin off. It’s got fiber.
Cucumbers don’t keep long sliced, so you’ll want to cut the veggie in half, then wrap one half in foil for later. Slice the rest and add it to your toppings bag.
Tomato
Only add grape or cherry tomatoes to your toppings bag. They don’t mix with other things well when sliced, so if that’s how you plan on eating it, you’ll have to do it right before serving your salad.
Carrots
I use a potato peeler to make them shreddy.
Other great toppings:
Celery
Broccoli stemsthe part that never gets used is actually really yummy in salads & by far the highest fiber part of the vegtable.
Bell pepper
My favorite salads have small amounts of tuna, shrimp, or fake crab mixed in. Protein is very important.
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