The plan

Because I got so many comments saying either “Lisa, you don’t need to lose weight!” or “Lisa, tell us about your amazing diet plan!”, I guess I need to oblige and fill you in.

For breakfast: 250 calories. Usually an English muffin with peanut butter.

For lunch: 350 calories. The Starbucks protein pack (cheese, roll, hardboiled egg, 10 grapes, 3 apple slices and almond butter). It sounds like a lot. It is not.

Afternoon snack: 300 calories. Usually veggies and dip or cheese and crackers.

Dinner: whatever I want, trying to keep under 1,000 calories. Believe it or not, a Quarter Pounder with cheese and fries is only 900 calories.

Dessert: not allowed!

Total calories per day: 1,900

But then! Then I go workout, and try to burn at least 500 calories. The goal would be to have my total calorie intake, minus what I burn, be under 1500 calories a day. According to my “plan” that would allow me to lose 1 to 3 pounds a week. We shall see.  I only weighed myself for the first time last night. It was a sad night. And then I ate this:



Game of Thrones is on the TV, but you can't see that. 
A perfect show to watch while eating dinner.



But don’t worry, I didn’t eat it all. I was too full from my breakfast, lunch and snack. Yeah right. But I really was full. Maybe my stomach is shrinking already?

Oh, and here’s a progress picture to keep the hard-core remodel readers happy. That’s our contractor, who I am sure would love to know that I took this and then put it out for my millions of followers to see. He’s putting the self-leveler over the radiant heating elements. You can also see that insulation has now been put up in the kitchen. Next up: dry wall!



Much self control needed to not put my handprints in the goo.



Dinners eaten at home since remodel began: 6

Dinners eaten out since remodel began: 18