1-2-3 Plan

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Keawyeds

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I suspect not many or maybe any of you have heard of the Terri Ann 1-2-3 plan, but that's what me and Mrs K have just started doing.

It's a 10 day boost plan followed by adding in some other items like additional veg/fruit (I think) for the following 7 days.
After that 7 days, you swap the stuff you added in and stick with that for 7 days and rotate them.

It seems like a very protein heavy diet. No carbs for sure.
The idea is to eat every 2.5 hours or thereabouts to keep your metabolism going.

Eating more protein will force your body to use it's fat stores to break down the protein IIRC.

Either way I'm eating a load more salad which can't be a bad thing, and I'm cutting out the booze and carbs for a bit.
From the perspective of someone who used to eat shitloads of bread, this may be quite a shock to my system.
Anywho this nacker was 13st 12lbs = just shy of 88kg.

Hopefully I'll shed a fair whack before we go on honeymoon in September!
 


Keawyeds said:
I suspect not many or maybe any of you have heard of the Terri Ann 1-2-3 plan, but that's what me and Mrs K have just started doing.

It's a 10 day boost plan followed by adding in some other items like additional veg/fruit (I think) for the following 7 days.
After that 7 days, you swap the stuff you added in and stick with that for 7 days and rotate them.

It seems like a very protein heavy diet. No carbs for sure.
The idea is to eat every 2.5 hours or thereabouts to keep your metabolism going.

Eating more protein will force your body to use it's fat stores to break down the protein IIRC.

Either way I'm eating a load more salad which can't be a bad thing, and I'm cutting out the booze and carbs for a bit.
From the perspective of someone who used to eat shitloads of bread, this may be quite a shock to my system.
Anywho this nacker was 13st 12lbs = just shy of 88kg.

Hopefully I'll shed a fair whack before we go on honeymoon in September!
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Sounds ludicrous, complicated and faddy when all you need to do to lose weight is count calories in vs calories out and make that part of your lifestyle (i.e. understanding what you're eating).
 
Sounds like a variation of the Dr dukan diet. He advocates between 3 and 7 days of only proteins and then introduces vegetables and stuff slowly in 3 stages I think.
Definitely lose weight doing it but you might get constipated with all the protein like.
 
The eating frequently to stimulate metabolism is a myth that was disproven decades ago, so I wouldn't pase any diet around that. It sounds logical, but when tested it doesn't make a difference.
 
Keawyeds said:
I suspect not many or maybe any of you have heard of the Terri Ann 1-2-3 plan, but that's what me and Mrs K have just started doing.

It's a 10 day boost plan followed by adding in some other items like additional veg/fruit (I think) for the following 7 days.
After that 7 days, you swap the stuff you added in and stick with that for 7 days and rotate them.

It seems like a very protein heavy diet. No carbs for sure.
The idea is to eat every 2.5 hours or thereabouts to keep your metabolism going.

Eating more protein will force your body to use it's fat stores to break down the protein IIRC.

Either way I'm eating a load more salad which can't be a bad thing, and I'm cutting out the booze and carbs for a bit.
From the perspective of someone who used to eat shitloads of bread, this may be quite a shock to my system.
Anywho this nacker was 13st 12lbs = just shy of 88kg.

Hopefully I'll shed a fair whack before we go on honeymoon in September!
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it will probably work because you'll follow it, don't stop after your honeymoon though.

Once that's out the way come back on here for advice about keeping the weight off and doing it so it lasts for the rest of your life.
 
Lewberry pie said:
it will probably work because you'll follow it, don't stop after your honeymoon though.

Once that's out the way come back on here for advice about keeping the weight off and doing it so it lasts for the rest of your life.
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Thanks for your words of support :)

And thankfully not constipated... yet :confused:...:lol:

Also, while I'm thinking about it, I know why I didn't keep my weight off.
It was mainly because I didn't have a target. Great North Run was really good for me as you had to train for it for months.
After that I pretty much nosedived!

I'm thinking of Trekking Machu Picchu next year. Do you think we could get a group together?
 
Just from using MFP I can see that carbs are calorie heavy (especially breads) so any diet that involves reducing carbs (and therefore calories) I imagine would get good calorific deficient results, I think that's why the old Atkins diet "worked".
 
TiredEyes said:
Just from using MFP I can see that carbs are calorie heavy (especially breads) so any diet that involves reducing carbs (and therefore calories) I imagine would get good calorific deficient results, I think that's why the old Atkins diet "worked".
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Fat is more calorie dense per gram, but the issue is that it tends to be a lot easier to overeat on high carb + high fat than high protein + high fat as you elude to
 
Keawyeds said:
I suspect not many or maybe any of you have heard of the Terri Ann 1-2-3 plan, but that's what me and Mrs K have just started doing.

It's a 10 day boost plan followed by adding in some other items like additional veg/fruit (I think) for the following 7 days.
After that 7 days, you swap the stuff you added in and stick with that for 7 days and rotate them.

It seems like a very protein heavy diet. No carbs for sure.
The idea is to eat every 2.5 hours or thereabouts to keep your metabolism going.

Eating more protein will force your body to use it's fat stores to break down the protein IIRC.

Either way I'm eating a load more salad which can't be a bad thing, and I'm cutting out the booze and carbs for a bit.
From the perspective of someone who used to eat shitloads of bread, this may be quite a shock to my system.
Anywho this nacker was 13st 12lbs = just shy of 88kg.

Hopefully I'll shed a fair whack before we go on honeymoon in September!
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Aye. Something like this. I hate calorie counting as a general rule, so just eat a protein based meal around every three hours with some carbs, not even always 'clean' may I add, as it depends on what training I'm doing/goals at the time. Some types of training (basically all of them except if you're training for a bodybuilding competition) can't be done on "bread and water" as they say. Actually I avoid breads because of the grains. But it's a fairly solid plan for 'leaning out.' Drink plenty of water and coffee. Have some cottage cheese or something as your last meal of the day before bed.

It's fairly simple stuff. Eat real food when you can, moar protein, being sensible with the carbs when you have to be, training properly, the simplistic approach may not necessarilly get you on the cover of Mens Health, but for limbering up, it tends to work.
 
Just thought I'd chip in here.
After the first week, or 4 days even I'd lost 7 pounds.

Had the weekend off - although I was quite sensible - and we're back on it this week.
I'll be interested to see what I am tomorrow
 
Since 28th July, I've lost 10 lbs (as of this morning).

Been measuring waist etc too, but I'm quite pleased with that
 
And another update, I think I'm going to do something else as of next week, this has been good but I'm a bit bored of it.

Anywho, I'm now 12stone 13 as of this morning so I've lost just shy of a stone.
Can't argue with that
 
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