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Since you asked for a meal plan, my usual day is:

Breakfast: Coffee or tea with 1-2 Tbsp of heavy cream, sometimes with one fried egg and/or a small amount of fruit (i.e. one slice of peach or 5 grapes)
Lunch: Salad from the grocery store with crunchy and leafy vegetables, hard boiled egg, chicken breast, bleu cheese, olive oil and vinegar. OR, meat-oriented leftovers from the previous night
Dinner: Fatty meat such as steak, lamb, or dark meat chicken, if the meat is lean I add fat with bacon, avocado, or have 1-2 Tbsp flax seed oil after dinner. As much leafy / crunchy vegetables as I want dressed in plenty of butter and/or olive oil, and a glass or two of red wine.
Snack: 3-4 macadamia nuts OR 1-2 tsp of coconut cream concentrate with hot water and cinnamon (a beverage) OR about an ounce of cheese

My portions would probably be about twice yours (I'm about 212 pounds), but you can eat the same things in lesser quantities.

When eating this way, I have very little appetite until late in the day, even when I'm working out, I have to force myself to eat lunch sometimes. It's easy, in fact feels more natural, to restrict calories, so it's easy to maintain a calorie deficit.

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I am neither female nor small-boned :-) but I have recently had good success losing the fat I've been trying to lose, and I think I can boil it down to:

1) Stop eating all grains and sugars
2) Replace some of those calories with good fats, but limit overall calorie intake to be about 10-20% below what is needed to maintain weight (i.e. slight calorie deficit)
3) Skip 3-4 meals per week (for me usually breakfast or lunch) and think of calories in terms of the week, not the day
4) Stop or limit cardio exercise (i.e. running), do only brief, intense strength exercise
5) Have a small cheat once every week or two

Each step took me down another notch on weight and girth and I feel great. I am not sure why but a small cheat every now and then seem to knock off a pound or so.

Step 4 took a while to figure out, I was running about 10-11 miles per week and thought that would be good for weight loss, but apparently it was keeping the weight on. Switching to kettlebells, Burpees and push-ups (intense work-out about 30 minutes every other day) was like flipping a switch in terms of fat loss.