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We do have a date. December 20th 2007 at 16:30 www.trainwithsarah.com will officially become Mrs. www.atozfitness.com  

In the mean time, we had one restaurant dinner with friends to celebrate the engagement last Saturday plus a family dinner in the same honor on Sunday night (desert only on one night); and we’re having another restaurant visit with 4 other friends this coming Saturday (as in tomorrow).

This is the reason for today’s post, because honestly, there’s something wrong.

Me again  

Why am I posting yet again? Simply because I thought it might interest you to know that I have dropped further amounts of bodyfat this week, and it’s only Thursday morning.

Thanks to the Every Other Day Diet eoddiet.atozfitness.com by Jon Benson and Janice Hauser.

I did mention a coouple of weeks ago, that I was opting for the Lifestyle Plan of EODD. Two burn-days, one feed-day, repeat and add a detox day on day 7.  What I found last Wednesday and again yesterday, was that the feed-day plan with no snack actually left me hungrier than the burn days!

The snow we had last week is having a hard time resisting! It’s been raining a little, melting some of it; and now the temperatures are attacking it with above-freezing temperatures. That’s fine as far as the roads go, makes it so much easier to walk and drive, but I like the added light we get from the bright white reverberations! And Christmas should be white. Last year, it wasn’t. The early snow went away and only returned on December 26th 

I am seriously beginning to wonder if these "treats" are worth it. The experts say to have a treat once a week, to keep sane and not crave something so badly that you end up bingeing on junk. In a way, ot makes sense, especially if you are just starting on a lean and healthy nutrition plan. However, I find that I get more irritated at the negative impact of these treats on my overall health and results than finding pleasure in eating these things.

Good news 

Our weight is still on that nice downward slope! 0.4 lbs burned for me since yesterday on the Lifestyle Plan, 0,8 lbs shed for Lewis who is still on the Detox Plan for a few more days.

For those who haven’t read the earlier posts on the subject, we are following the principles from the Every Other Day Diet e-book, co-authored by Jon Benson and Janice Hauser. You can read more about it here and have a close look at the picture, it changes between the before and after pictures of the authors. eoddiet.atozfitness.com Jon and Janice were not always as lean and fabulous-looking as they are now. They have been fat, even obese, and have changed their lifestyles so that they now look better than most stars on the billboards (who think they are just sooo delicious by the way,  yuck)

Today’s update

My graph is totally back on track I am back to Monday morning’s results this morning, with the period being over and gone for this month. From here on in, the red line will just go downwards (well, for 28 days at least!).

The EODD is so easy to follow, it’s almost ridiculous! Like Lewis said this morning, "I love food, so if I can do this, anyone can!" Well, technically, he doesn’t "love" food, he enjoys it, but never mind that for right now. We all say we "love" all sorts of stuff, when we really only love people close to us, ourselves and our pets

As predicted, the “period effect” is wearing off. This morning the scales were dipping the right way again, down. Not that they had tipped up a whole lot, but it was still a graph-line I didn’t like. Now I do.

Today is going to be a workout day. For one thing, I do have my weight training, nothing new there, but today …

Now I have started on the Lifestyle Plan from the EODD e-book. I had originally thought of following the Extreme Plan, getting as tough as possible with myself so that I would burn as much fat as possible before Christmas, but then there’s life.

You see, the Lifestyle Plan works over 7 days. A week. The Extreme plan works over 2×4 days, which is 8. Not a week. Meaning that the treat days, the off days, the feed days, whatever you want to call them, will not necessarily fall on a day that you traditionally get together with friends and family!

There were a few glitches in my blogroll links listing, I will restore the missing ones asap!