Woooowwww, Lori, congrats!
Amelia, you too!
And Belinda - wow, 20 pounds? That's amazing. I am humbled by the company I keep.
Belinda, I didn't make it to PUB yesterday morning. It's still on tap for today, plus some cardio.
Lori, this program wasn't designed for me, but the modification I'm trying this round (upping the protein calories a little and continueing forward with weight workouts) is a modification that I'm being a guinea pig for under the supervision of the nutritionist who runs this program.
It's a weird cycle in that you "load"(eat everything you'd like to, especially high fat) for two days and then go to the extremely low calories for the rest of the 23 day cycle.
I just finished the two load days Thurs and Friday. It felt weird. I don't crave things anymore and it was hard to eat a lot, although I did make the effort this time to eat all things I really like and would possibly miss since I won't have them again for a very, very long time. It was actually fairly miserable to eat that much, compared to the stabilization/maintenance diet which I now really enjoy.
So we'll see how my modification goes. The tricky part is that you are supposed to TRY to eat just from noon to 6 p.m. and then stay fasting on no-cal fluids only from 6 p.m. until lunch the next day. Doing a steady state (no higher than 70%) cardio workout during that fasting period is ideal - but if I add the weight workout, the proper place to put it is in the afternoon or early evening to make it land where the extra protein calories fall. That will be the tough part, if I can make it. We'll see. I might stretch that rule a little to do weight work in the morning and then maybe stop eating sooner in the day to help compensate.
Very complicated. But I am really liking this program. The more I do it and get familiar with other gals doing it, the more impressed I become.
have a great afternoon, everyone!
Cheryl
P.S. Belinda - I agree with you completely on STS. I do think they'll prove to be the most important and valuable workouts Cathe's ever designed :7 }(