Episode 28, Labyrinth and Delilah’s Diet
Filmed on January 4th,
It is the first Power Belly Show of the New Year. Classes are filling up nicely this week but the Monday class was a bit small. We did a lot during the holidays as far as really cool events. Dahlia had a student recital. Her husbands band had an album release party at the studio. We did a Solstice Labyrinth dance and Feast event and Laura Rose filmed part of the labyrinth dance and it will be an interesting extra I think on this episode!
Then on New Years afternoon we did a Zaar. I think we exhausted every one psychically. However we didn’t do our usual Power Belly Classes for the last two weeks of December. I personally feel a bit spongy around the middle after indulging in all the rich foods. I really need to do power belly at least 2-3 times a week and sweat to make up for all the sitting at the computer I’ve been doing trying to assist the team with the web site stuff. It’s been especially cold and that makes me hungry too. Yikes! I feel it.
On this episode I feel we kept it simple and sweaty. Wanted to start the new year out with a goal and I am tired of all the food and partying. Enough! So on this episode I did mention I was going to start a diet to get ready for a swim suit in Hawaii at our coming retreat. I said I would post it on my blog. Partly to make me stick to the diet and partly to introduce my blog. So you will see me with a few extra pounds on lets see if I take em off. I could be setting my self up here. Oh well, here goes.
Back Story
I haven’t been on a diet in years. As long as I keep moving and am conscientious I don’t worry to much about my weight. I do not come from fast metabolizing genes either. All the women in my family have to watch it. None were athletes like Laura Rose and me. We know we gotta exercise. We both could see the advantages to learning to be a professional belly dance for sure. Those first shows I did were 45 -55 minutes long when I first began to dance back with the Lebanese band. Not one hair was dry when I finished!
When I was a teen I had to diet I have learned good habits from weight watchers with my Mother. Coarse the diet has changed a lot since those days. Thats not the diet I’m going to share here. As we age our metabolism changes. Fat deposits it’s self in very predicable areas. If you don’t sleep, you can’t loose weight and your body will hold on to it. Insomnia is rampant these days at any age. Many people struggle with weight issues. It’s very hard, I know.
I went on this diet when I was 17, and then my favorite aerobic instructor Barb Ode many years later handed me the same diet at age 35. She claimed to have lost over 100 pound by going on it 2 week on and 2 weeks off. Then she became an aerobic instructor and kept the weight off. It always worked for me to take weight off fast and feel more comfortable. I usually stay on it for 10 days. If I had a lot of weight to loose I would approach it slower with weight watchers. I don’t know if it will work now a days. My metabolism is way different.I’m going to give this old diet a try again and see how it goes.
Clinic High Protein Reduction Diet
Follow this diet carefully for two weeks. Abstain from anything not included, but make sure you eat what is assigned rather than doing without. Vegetables must be eaten without butter; salads without oils; grapefruit without sugar; no cream or sugar in coffee or tea; and only the lean part of the steak or chops should be used.
Your weight loss range may be from 10 to 20 pounds in two weeks. Do not follow this diet longer than two weeks. It is harmless for two weeks, but may create problems if followed longer.
The basic premise of this diet is maintenance of normal energy while reducing calories. A change of body chemistry occurs during the process and only specific food elements should be eaten. Quantities are less important, except where indicated.
Monday
Breakfast:1 egg, 1/2 slice of toast, grapefruit & black coffee
Lunch: Serving of cottage cheese, tomato & 6 oz skim milk
Dinner: 1 broiled meat patty, combination salad*, 1 piece dry toast & grapefruit .
Tuesday
Breakfast: 1 egg, 1/2 slice of toast, grapefruit & black coffee
Lunch: Grapefruit, 1 cup custard**, skim milk
Dinner: Steak, tomatoes, lettuce, celery, olives, cucumbers, coffee or tea
Wednesday
Breakfast: 1 egg, 1/2 slice of toast, grapefruit & black coffee
Lunch: Cottage cheese, tomato, spinach***, 1 banana, 6 oz skim milk
Dinner: 2 lamb chops, celery, carrots, tomatoes, coffee or tea
Thursday
Breakfast: 1 serving of oatmeal, 4 oz orange juice, 6 oz skim milk
Lunch: Combination salad, grapefruit
Dinner: Lean meat, cottage cheese, spinach, 1 piece dry toast, coffee
Friday
Breakfast: 1 serving of oatmeal, 4 oz orange juice, 6 oz skim milk
Lunch: Cottage cheese, spinach, 6 oz skim milk, 2-3 rye crisps.
Dinner: Fish combination salad, 1 piece dry toast, grapefruit, coffee or tea
Saturday
Breakfast: 1 serving of oatmeal, 4 oz orange juice, 6 oz skim milk
Lunch: Fruit salad (nothing else)
Dinner: Plenty of steak, celery, tomatoes, carrots, tea or coffee
Sunday
Breakfast: 1 egg, 1/2 slice of toast, grapefruit & black coffee
Lunch: Cold chicken, tomatoes, grapefruit, coffee or tea
Dinner: Vegetable soup, Chicken, tomatoes, cooked cabbage, carrots, celery, half a grape fruit, tea or coffee
Notes *
A combination salad is a salad with protein, such as a chefs salad or similar. It could include a bit of egg, tuna, jack or cheddar cheese, or fetta cheese. ** The custard is basically egg and milk. A scrambled egg will do. *** Combine spinach, chopped tomatoes, cottage cheese and “Spike” seasoning salt (usually found in health food stores and some grocery stores). A great salad when those items are called for.
I have made substitutes and additions and the diet seems to still work. I substitute canned or fresh pineapple for orange juice, feta for cottage cheese. I also have had a glass of white dry wine at night once in a while. However, if you are strict it’s a very effective diet.
We shall see how I do on episode 29.
Wish me luck! I think I will miss my beer the most !
Delilah