the beginning

So, let's talk about why I'm making this blog.


First off, it's more or less so I can keep track of what I'm eating, when I'm working out and then hold myself accountable. Any other time I've tried to do this I always end up pushing it off or rewarding myself for, well, doing nothing. This time is going to be different. In twenty one days, I am going to be going home for the summer after my first year away from college. I'll be seeing a lot of people I haven't seen in over a year and some people that I haven't seen since Christmas. I wanna make changes in my life and I wanna be okay with who I am. So in order to do this, I'm going to be doing some extreme dieting, learning how to cook, working out like a mad woman and focusing on school a little bit in between. 


Doing some of this might be hard considering: I just had mono and was out of college for over a month, I am getting over ANOTHER cold and fever just went away, I can't cook to save my life, I only have three weeks, I've never actually stuck to any plan I've started before. Hopefully though, this time will be different. So let's move on and talk about what the plan actually is.


The Plan


I'm starting the Copenhagen Diet. It's kinda extreme because it's almost like starvation and they say you should only do this diet once every two years because of some long term adverse effects it may have if you do it too often. However, I'm going to look past that and take the 13-day diet and turn it into a longer version that's about 20 days long. Here is what the basic outline of the plan looks like:

Day 1 and 8
Breakfast: 1 cup coffee, 1 sugar cube
Lunch: 2 hard boiled eggs, 100g cooked spinach, 1 tomato
Dinner: 1 large steak, salad with oil and lemon 150g 

DAY 2 and 9
Breakfast: 1 cup coffee, 1 sugar cube
Lunch: 1 large steak, salad with oil and lemon 150g
Dinner: 1 slice of ham, 2-3 cups of natural yoghurt

Day 3 and 10 Breakfast: 1 cup of coffee, a sugar cube, a toast with wholemeal bread
Lunch: Cooked spinach, a fresh fruit, a tomato
Dinner: 1 slice of ham, 2 boiled eggs, lettuce with oil and lemon 150g

DAY 4 and 11 Breakfast: 1 cup coffee, 1 sugar cube
Lunch: 150g grated carrot, boiled egg, cottage cheese 100
Dinner: 100g of fruit salad, 2-3 cups of natural yoghurt

DAY 5 and 12 Breakfast: a large carrot with lemon tart
Lunch: big fish skinny
Dinner: 1 steak, lettuce and broccoli 200g

DAY 6 and 13 Breakfast: 1 cup of black coffee, 1 sugar cube
Lunch: 150g cooked chicken, lettuce with oil and lemon 150g
Dinner: 2 boiled eggs, a big carrot

DAY 7 Breakfast: 1 cup of tea without sugar
Lunch: piece of grilled lean meat 150g
Dinner: NOTHING

Alright, so that's the plan I'll be sticking to for then next 13 days. This also allows me to explain the URL of the blog. Basically in this diet, in addition to the things listed you may drink an unlimited amount of water and tea. It's gonna be hard, but I'm so ready to do this. I bought all my food yesterday and I only have substituted a few things. Tomatoes are going to be replaced by bananas, because when comparing this plan to another similar Copenhagen-esk diet, they ate bananas on the days that tomatoes are listed. Also, I can't do oil and lemon on my salad, so I'm eating Ken's Steak House Low Fat Italian dressing and I'm also adding a few black olives so it's not just lettuce and dressing. Besides that, I got 96% lean hamburger patties for my "steaks" and I'm going to be trying to marinade my grilled chicken in lemon sauce. And I'm also going to be skipping the ham altogether because I couldn't figure out the correction portion and quite frankly, ham isn't one of my favorite foods. 


When it comes to working out, I'm not exactly sure how often or how much I'm going to be doing it. From what I've read this diet can make you extremely weak and more tired than usual, and consider how tired I am when I'm healthy, then add in the fact that I have mono AND a cold/virus, I might be pretty damn tired. So I'm going to strive for at least  two miles on the treadmill or elliptical every day. Hopefully I'll be doing upwards of 5-10 miles every other day. I'll hopefully add in some lunges, sit-ups, and squats in there too. Since I don't have much going on besides classes Tuesday through Thursday, I think that spending an hour or two down at the gym won't be too hard to force myself into.


I see this blog as a motivation. I'll be holding myself accountable for doing, or not doing what I've planned or supposed to. I'll be blogging every single thing I eat and drink, as well as how much I workout. There won't be an exaggerations, there won't be any tricking/lying myself, and there certainly won't be any rewarding myself for nothing. The real reward will be what happens when I finish these next 20-21 days. 




If you're reading this, then thanks. I'm really only typing this for myself, but I'm more than willing to share this with anyone who cares. :)