Believe in 15/6

My business is promotional products and after listening (late) to Weeks 12 and 13 of the BFC Program I started thinking about how to get others more healthy and what we can do to do this in addition to the ideas Jorge gave.  I created a mockup logo that might get people to ask us what this is about.

Pricing: $6 to $12 each, depending on quantity.
The more I make the less the price.  If I get enough interest to make 72 hats, the price would be $6.00 each.  If I just do 6, the price is $12 each.  For an additional $3.50 each, I can embroider your blog site on the back, or any other web address, or 1 liner onto the back.

Please let me know your thoughts on this.

I can do shirts too, or any other promotional product.  But thought hats might be a good start.

I haven't yet made these yet, but if anyone is interested in ordering 1 or more hats, or customized hats (minimum order is 6 for embroidered).

Email me at jamie [at] printedstuff.com to contact me about this.

Meals - Monday - 1/25

Breakfast: (5/1) + 9g Fiber + 15g Protein
2 slices of Toast, 2 scrambled Eggs, 1/2 serving of cheddar cheese, and 1/2 cup of Blueberries, 1 serving of Fiber Gummies.  16-oz Water.
Before Lunch: 16-oz Water.
Lunch: (1/2) + 12g Fiber + 25g Protein)
Smart and Delicious Whole Wheat Tortilla (1/1 + 12g Fiber / 8g Protein).  Left over lean Ground Beef (0/0 + 10g Protein), Cheddar Cheese, (0/0 + 7g Protein), Romaine Lettuce. 24-oz Water.
Mid-Day Snack: Breakstone's Cottage Cheese (4/1 + 3g Fiber / 10g Protein)

Tally for the day: (10/4) + 24g Fiber + 56-oz Water

BFC - Fresh Start

I was sick for the last 2 weeks with some sort of odd flu.  I didn't have as much congestion as I normally would with a flu but it started with a fever and soar throat, and exhaustion.  The last week I was still very tired and still had a lingering cough and clearing of the throat thing going on but the past few days I have been feeling stronger.  Yesterday was a big day back for me.  I gave a 30 minute presentation, then went to lunch with some friends and visited my parents for dinner in the evening.  I felt good throughout the day and I think I am 95% back to normal now.

At lunch, one of the friends I had lunch with told me I inspired her to get on a diet program.  She is doing Slim in Six, and in the first week lost 3 pounds.  I am happy for here and encouraged her to continue.  She also told me the only artificial sweetener she uses is stevia.  I was happy to hear this altho I tried to explain that Stevia is a natural alternative, not artificial and I commended her for her choice.

At any rate, this helped me to get back on track.  Not like I fell off the wagon, but I really haven't been doing the little things I need to do.  I haven't been blogging as you know, or tweeting much.  I haven't been tracking what I eat altho I am very good about watching the sugar and carb counts and I am really only eating the same BFC-safe foods I have switched too.

Today I will start tracking my meals better and strive to get back on track with drinking enough water daily.

Week 8 - Notes

Keys to success:
1. TRACK WHAT YOU EAT!  Note the S/C value for everything I eat.  Do this no matter what.  Write it down on a scrap paper if necessary, just be sure to write it down.

2. Automate your meals - Setup a few specific options for each meal that is 5/2.  This makes it easy to eat.  Make specific meals for takeout or on the run.  Plan ahead of time what meals you can eat on the run from various restaurants.

My Breakfast -
A) 2 slices of WW Bread with 2 eggs scrambled, 2 slices of canadian bacon, 1/3 cup of uncle sam's cereal, dry sprinkled with Swerve and a few blackberries (5/2)

My Lunch -
A) Pizza - WW pita with mozz cheese, pepperoni; and pringles single pack (2/2)
B) Wrap - WW Wrap filled with Romaine Lettuce, cheese, chicken (grilled or chicken salad) (2/2)

More options to come later.

3. Create meals you can repeat.  This is kind of the same as #2.

I'm Back

Unfortunately I have stepped away from the program for a time.  Not entirely, but from the blog and from my daily log of meals.  I have still been eating properly, just not recording it or discussing it.  The results still have not changed.  This started last week when I lost ZERO and this last week, while I was thrilled to finally see a change on the scale, although it was just 1 pound.  But I am still nowhere near where I thought I would be by now.

But I am determined to continue.  I am listening to the success stories and reading others stories and I am going to try to maintain a positive attitude about myself and this program.  I do afterall feel better and am down a pant size from when I started and have lost and kept off 14 lbs in 7 weeks.

In evaluating myself, I have found a few open issues:
1. I still eat emotionally.  And this often occurs at night.  I used to count the number of crackers or chocolates to make sure I stick to the serving size, but over time I figured I know what 55 goldfish look like, or 1 serving of chocolates.  Realization: I need to go back to counting and putting them in a cup.

2. I need to go back to keeping a physical log of my diet.  How many carb servings and how many sugars. It will be easy because I do have a good idea of what is in what.  But I did this week 1 and lost big time.  Do it again.

3. Another damper I found is when I would find a new product and think it is great, only to learn later that it actually has HFCS or sucralose or any -lose.  What a bummer.  To be honest I would tell myself it's still better than eating the real sugars.  But I need to realize its not.  And it may be worse so avoid them both.  For example I found bread that I thought was the best only to learn it has sucralose - Ugh!  Throw it away and find something else.

4. As bad as the above issues seem, my biggest issue I think might be this: I'm not drinking enough water.  Ever since someone told me not to guzzle so much water in the morning and instead to sip it thru-out the day, I have been off track.  I'm not a sipper.  I don't like to sip.  I'm not a huge fan of drinking so much water.  I have always struggled with that and found guzzling it was my success to getting it down. I'm going to go back to this.  Rest assured, I am not OD'ing on water.  A 16-oz bottle when I wake, another bottle with breakfast.  Another before lunch.  Sobe during lunch.  And another before or during dinner.  That's 64-oz a day.  If drinking 16-oz at a time is going to be a health issue, kindly let me know, but for now that's what I'm going back to.  Otherwise I have probably only been having 16-24 oz a day of straight bottled water.  I do drink Sobe Lifewater and zevia soda also.  But these are the only things that make up my liquid intake.

By the way... I recently found that Sobe has at least 2 new flavors.  And Zevia Soda now comes in Black Cherry and it is yummy.

Well these are my open issues and I will start making some changes.  Starting with drinking a bottle of water right now.