Week Three of "Drop It"

Alrighty then! It has officially been three complete weeks now since I have been on a diet. I changed up this week on how I got my proteins. In week two I got most of my proteins through red meat. This week I wanted to change it up some and see if chicken would make a difference in weight loss versus red meat. I think the only positive of eating the grilled chicken versus red meat was the ease on my digestive system. What I mean by that is not the bathroom part, but how my stomach feels after eating these types of meat. I have had problems in the past with acid reflux and it seems that happens less with chicken.

I stayed with the all water part of my diet. I can really feel a difference with drinking nothing but water every day. I have gotten used to having nothing but water. Its kind of like now my body expects to drink water at a meal. One thing I really have been practicing with the water this week is drinking 20 ounces 30 minutes before each meal. I get full faster with eating and I think it really aids in digestion. I have been having around 100 ounces a day of water. I also started taking Flinstone vitamins this week just to get other nourishment. This was doctor recommended.

I have not been hitting my target most days on carbs. I will fall just short by one or two servings with like eight or nine servings of carbs. Some days I have also been falling short on my proteins only hitting the twelve to fifteen servings mark. I think I am more worried about not getting my proteins than I am about the carbs. With the exercise program I have been doing I need all the proteins I can get. I have been walking or jogging about 4 miles a day. Yes I came up on the distance this week. I was only going two to three miles in past weeks, but I moved it up to around four miles this week. I have had to use the treadmill in my exercise room this week with all the rain we have had. I am a outdoors person when it comes to walking, but being in the delta there is not really much you can do about the incline. I really like being able to change that setting on my treadmill and getting the burn on. So I have been walking outside two miles and two or a little more on the treadmill with lots of incline. So lets get to the nitty gritty:

 I started the diet weighing in at 299 

I now weigh, drum roll please:

272

Total weight loss of week three is 10 pounds

So the total weight loss so far since July 8 is 27 pounds