Stripping the Fat

I started a cleansing routine last weekend to prepare to start a PSMF as outlined in Lyle McDonald’s Rapid Fat Loss Book. Tomorrow is the day that I will actually begin the program but I’ve been low carbing regardless.  

I feel a lot better this week, and noticed less bloating overall but that is probably because I finally realized my blood pressure was up a bit and I was making it worse by consuming the usual suspect: Sodium. I have been in pre-cleansing mode for a while now and it seems as if I’m am completely ready for 12 weeks of the PSMF.  

I have been increasing my water intake each day so that I can get in the habit of drinking a lot  and hopefully consume more than a gallon a day. I swear I am always dehydrated and that is the only reservation I have in doing a PSMF…so I KNOW I have to drink tons of water.  

Per the calculator on Lyle McDonald’s website, my diet breakdown should be as follows for the next 8-12 weeks:

*Two free meals are allowed per week w/ no refeeds
*hit 95.4 grams of protein a day; 19.1 g per meal
*10 g of fish oil
*1200 mg of Calcium
*500mg of Magnesium
*1g Potassium
*3-5g of Sodium
The basic premise is 5-6 Lean protein &  green veggie meals a day or substitute lean protein with a protein shake accompanied by green veggies.

LBM= 106
Fat mass = 92
BMI = 35

More on that later. So my friend and I had a little convo today and I commented on the fact that at times I don’t listen to myself and I let others influence me in ways I know won’t set well with me.  For example, yesterday I mentioned that I was thinking of changing my eating plan that goes with my workouts to my cousin.  Now, she doesn’t even know what a PSMF is or that I’m starting it but she immediately tells me that she wants me to wait until she is ready so that she can do it with me.  WTFE!  I was like, you know what…you can do you and you need to seriously let me do me.  I’m not trying to stress myself out behind somebody else’s time schedule.  She may never get started and we don’t even like the same way of eating.  I love meat and she loves everything non-meat despite the fact that she is diabetic!  Normally I would have given in and "let myself off the hook", but as the past has shown me, I would never have started what I WANTED TO DO waiting around for her.  It’s the same type of thing you encounter when you start losing weight and others  start to take notice and give you advice you didn’t ask for.  YOU know you have a goal in mind and you are no where near it, but people start to tell you that you look just fine the way you are and maybe you should stop losing weight because you may "blow away in the wind".  Are you kidding me?  Each and every time I’ve listened to that mess I realized later that I should have followed my OWN mind and stuck with my goals.  I think the real killer comment is "You look fine just the way you are" and I have come to the conclusion that people say this because they think that you have always looked a certain way since they didn’t know you before.  Most people don’t even realize how my looks have changed from being bloated from the Prednisone…I mean I didn’t hear anyone saying "Girl, whatever your doing to yourself, its NOT WORKING."  LMAO!

So with that said I plan to use this blog a lot!  I have to think things through and vent a bit.  I don’t really like discussing diet or lifestyle changes with people who are not knowledgeable in that area of expertise.

I’m glad I found this website and certainly feel it will be quite useful in reaching my fat loss goals.