A warm welcome to all the new Momentum members. I developed the Myeating- code on the system, and I am looking forward to support you with the eating plan. Initially yo may feel a bit overwhelmed and it may look like more food than what you actually ate. People generally tend to underestimate what they eat, and you also tend not to count what you are having when you are comfort eating. This ia a good reality check on what you conceive on a daily basis. Remember that you count everything, from the sugar in your tea to the milk and every last bite.
If you used to eat very little through the day, perhaps only a pie and coke , and a large meal for supper, something like 500 g of spaghetti bolognaise (this if if you didn't dish a second helping) , your energy intake for the day was 7560 kJ. If you would eat the same amount of KJ's on this program it will calculate to 9 heavy portions and 9 light portions. This can amount to 1 cup of All-Bran and a cup of skim milk and a banana for breakfast, a snack of 4 provitas and cheese and a bunch of grapes, a tuna sandwich with 200 ml of fruit juice for lunh, a smoothie at 3, 150 g spaghetti blognaise for supper, with salad and mixed vegetables, and 200g fruit salad and 150 g fatfree flavoured yoghurt as a snack or desert. All this will give the same KJ's!!
Can you see the difference, in the first menu, it felt like little food, but the percentage fat from that mealplan is 60%, in the second mealplan the bulk of food is more, but the percentage made up of fat is 25-35% -BIG difference. In the second, you have enough carbohydrates to burn your own body fat and supply sustained energy . The old eating plan supplies too much fat and too little bulk. The result is hoarding fat and very little energy.
So if it looks like a lot of food, remember that you need to get your metabolism going. You need to understand that carbohydrates are very much needed to maintain blood sugar levels and to burn fat. Fat burns in the fire of carbohydrates!
All the best you guys, we have high expectations from you.
