Eating to Lose Weight

As I have posted earlier, I wanted to lose a great deal of weight. For almost a month now, we've been listing our weight in our whiteboard here and I'm glad to say that we lost several pounds already.

Best part is, there is very minimal effort on our part to lose this amount weight. By this, I mean exercise is limited only to the normal day-to-day walking; nothing unusual. The only thing we changed in our routine is our eating habits. Significantly changed, I might add.

Before this little experiment of ours, what we consume everyday is as follows:

• heavy brunch + snacks + heavy dinner + snacks; or


• light breakfast + heavy lunch + snacks + heavy dinner + snacks.

Lots of "heavy" in there plus lots of extra snacks. No surprise with our weight then.

Now, we are sticking with this eating, uhm, "patterns", if you will:

• cereal brunch + heavy dinner + snacks; or


• cereal breakfast + heavy lunch + cereal dinner + snacks.

In this new plan, we have reduced from two to three heavy rice meals to just one rice meal a day. Wheat bread or cereals serve as the substitutes for the missing heavy meals.

Weekends are also important; we noticed a trend in which we actually gained a few pounds during weekends. This is when we go out and have fun, which always includes eating a lot. We then realized that we have to be more committed; when going out, we not only plan where we will be going, but also what we will be eating.

Take this Saturday, for example. We have plans to meet with friends and watch the play "Avenue Q" in the evening. We anticipated a heavy dinner. So for today, we plan on having a cereal brunch (which I just finished), probably some wheat bread for in-betweener snacks, then the heavy dinner, wherever that will be. Sounds like a good plan to me. :)

In this case, the whiteboard is a great motivator for us. Whenever we see that we lost more weight than we expected, we are more encouraged to stick to our eating plan and to think of other ways to lose even more weight.

Like I said, we lost weight just by changing our eating habits. However, we still have a long way to go. In the next few days, I plan on including some regular exercises as well. This will be tougher for us, I think, but it's something that must be done. :)