Kashi Go Lean Diet

I have been eating so much and so often that I am making myself sick.  Blech, puke, barf, ugh!!!

I have decided that for 7 days I am going to eat a bowl of Kashi Go Lean for breakfast, and Kashi Go Lean for Lunch with skim milk on both. 

I will have an apple/banana/orange 3 fruits per day, and a supper with 3 ounces lean meat and 1 cup vegetables, and that's it. 

I am going to do this for 7 days.  This is the first day.

246.6 pounds

I am unhappy in my body.  My knees hurt, my back hurts, and I have plantar fasciitis in my right heel/foot.  :(
KitKat

I tried that with Special K cereal, as suggested on the box.  But they say you should only have a cup of it.  That is certainly not a full bowl and I was still hungry.  Maybe if you eat a piece of fruit with it you will fill up a little more.

Hi Kathy,

Have you estimated that caloric?  You must consume no less then 1200 cals.

I wish you great sucess, you can do it.

:o)
Well, probably about 200 calories per bowl of Kashi, and 300 calories approximatley in 3 pieces of fruit, and about another  200 in 3 ounces lean meat, and 1 cup veggies probably 100-200 depending on the veggie. 

I will take my vitamin, calcium, & prilosec.

You know, I contemplate the Roux En Y, often.  I am way too chicken to cut myself open and rearrange what God gave me, due to lack of my own ability to control or moderate myself successfully.  However, I think...  how is it that these people lose 60 pounds in 8 weeks?  Mostly, they're eating 400 calories per day right away, and plus the malabsorption from rearranging the small intestines. 

I think sometimes that I should try the Roux En Y diet, without having the Roux En Y. 
:)
Kit

What a Brilliant idea!!

No, wait, no it's not. It's a stupid idea :p

I like Kashi Go Lean. Don't get me wrong. It's filled with good whole grains, lots of fiber, lots of protein.
But by Day 5, you'll be so sick of Kashi Go Lean, it won't be funny.

Here's a GOOD idea.. stop dieting. Start thinking of this as a lifestyle change. Work towards eating better, and getting fit. Work towards eating a good selection of foods (and by the sounds of it, you know what you should be eating.), which can include Kashi Go Lean but isn't "Hey, I'ma gonna eat so much Kashi Go Lean in a hopes of losing weight!"
It doesn't work! That diet NEVER works, long term.. it doesn't work with Special K. It doesn't work with Cabbage Soup. it doesn't work with any specific food.

KitKat.... are you sure that your meal plan will be sufficient to fuel your body for the rest of your life? Are these changes that you can make and stick with? Are you willing to eat less than what your body needs (aka STARVING YOURSELF) for the remainder of your days? Because that is basically what you're setting yourself up for honey, with that kind of diet.

Kashi is a great cereal, but the fact is is that by week 2, the thought of shovelling any more of that cereal in your mouth will make you sick. Why don't you find a couple great low-cal, high fiber cereals that you can rotate every morning? Then for lunch you can eat salad, pasta, veggies, a protein source and choose something else for lunch. That way you keep the variety and you make sure to nourish your body and give it everything it needs.

Make sure you're balancing your carbs, proteins and fat, monitor your sodium (less than 2500mg ) and water and make sure you get at least 25g of fiber in a day. If you really want to go hard on yourself, do it the right way and make yourself eat the healthiest diet possible, not by starving yourself and making yourself sick with bland meals.

You don't have to punish yourself in order to lose weight.

OK the Kashi 2 cups is 140/cup 280 plus 90 calories in the skim milk:

280 + 280 + 300 (3 pcs fruits) + 200 (3 ounces lean meat)+ 100 (1 cup veggies) = 1160

and, with my vitamin and calcium, this is a fine alternative for 7 days.

Roux En Y patients eat less than their bodily requirements for MONTHS on end after their surgeries WITH DOCTOR APPROVAL, I might add.  This is no different, in fact, it is MUCH better than the post-surgical Roux En Y diet!! 

I just need a plan, and I thought that this would be OK for 7 days (IF I HAVE THE STRENGTH AND WILL TO DO IT).  I may, buckle and have Cheetos and Ben & Jerry's by the end of the day).  :)

I lost 114 pounds 6 years ago.  I went from 276 to 162 pounds.  I know HOW to lose weight, and I know WHAT to eat to lose weight.  I walked 5 miles per day almost every single day but at least 5/7 days. 

I have not returned to 276 thank God for that!  However, I hover from 230 to 250, not having ever been able to control myself with the determination that I had 6 years ago.  I go back and forth losing 20 gaining 20 losing 25 gaining 25, losing 15 gaining 15, but AT LEAST I have not gone back to 276 and at least I do not weigh 350 pounds!  My struggles attempts and failures have at least kept me at 250 pounds, which at this point seems to be a weight that I cannot function well at.

It isn't so much the food that I eat.  For me, it is all about:

self-will

self-determination

self-control

temperance

Moderation

Concious decisions every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every week, every month, every single solitary defined millisecond....  which is what it comes down to so much of the time.

I get so angry that I make bad decisions, choose to NOT control myself, and remain obese. 

Oh, good heavens, kitkat, you CAN lose weight and STILL eat the foods you love. Really. I have been doing it for the past five months. I'll post some of my days for you. Back in a few.

Here's a 1,397 calorie day that got rated an A. Not the best day's menu, admittedly, but man, I ate all day, got in stuff I really like, and hey, it's about 1400 calories! How cool is that?

First number after the food is number of grams, second number is number of calories. I have a chocolate chocolate chip muffin for breakfast once every two weeks or so.

Tue, Sep 19 2006
Breakfast
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins - Muffins 92 374
Coffee (Filter)  356 14
Milk, Nonfat, Fluid - With Added Vitamin A (Fat Free Or Skim)  61 21
Sugar in the Raw (turbinado sugar) packet 10 40

Lunch
Carrots, Baby - Raw  130 46
Keebler Chips Deluxe Right Bites Chocolate Chip  21 100
Lean Cuisine Chicken a l'Orange  255 260

Dinner
Black beans with peppers and onions  97 100
Freshly Shredded Romano Cheese - Shredded Cheese  10 40
BUMBLE BEE Chunk Light Tuna in Water  84 90

Snacks
Strawberries  60 19
Bananas  118 105
Almonds  14 81
Hershey's Nuggets Dark Chocolate with Almonds  10 53
Golean cereal  13 35
Blueberries  36 21

Here's another A day with just over 1400 calories. Check it out: bacon, pizza, pudding, and cookies, too. Yeah, I like my junk. Once I finally got it into my pea brain that junk food isn't going to go away if I don't eat it today -- I can always eat it tomorrow if I want to! -- it made it MUCH easier to have just a little bit if I wanted it.

Fri, Sep 22 2006  
Breakfast
Cheerios 23 85
Blueberries
Milk, Nonfat, Fluid - With Added Vitamin A (Fat Free Or Skim) 245 83
Coffee (Filter) 474 19
Sugars, Granulated 8 31
Pork, Cured, Bacon - Cooked, Broiled, Pan-fried Or Roasted 4 22  

Lunch
Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat 52 100
Carrots, Baby - Raw 150 53
Celery - Raw 40 6
Cucumber, Peeled - Raw 101 12
Peanut Butter, Chunk Style - With Salt 16 94
Bananas 118 105
Keebler Chips Deluxe Right Bites Chocolate Chip 21 100  

Dinner
Margherita Pizza 168 320
Freschetta cheese and bacon pizza (1/16) 30 81

Snacks
Kozy Shack butterscotch pudding 99 100
Chocolate Chip Cookies - Sweet Discovery Cookies 37 170
Pepero bread stick/chocolate-coated -- 1 stick 10  

Total Calories Consumed 1,413

And here's yesterday. I knew my tall child and I were heading to Trader Joe's in the evening; hadn't planned on getting into the dark chocolate Art Bar I was given last weekend, but I did, as you can see (oh, is that goooood chocolate!).... yesterday, calories were 1,454, even with taste testing a few things at Trader Joe's and the chocolate.

Thu, Oct 19 2006 
Breakfast
Golean cereal  26 70
Cheerios  15 55
Milk, Nonfat, Fluid  142 50
Blueberries  68 39
Coffee (Filter)  237 10
Sugars, Granulated  4 16

Lunch
Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat  26 50
Oven Roasted Turkey Breast - Deli Thin  39 45
Carrots, Baby - Raw  110 39
Deli Deluxe Natural Slice Swiss - Sandwich Cheese  15 57
Beef Roast, Round, 0" Fat, Select - Cooked, Roasted  50 88
Tomatoes, Red, Ripe - Raw, June Thru October Average  30 6
Lettuce, Cos Or Romaine - Raw  30 5
Pineapple  39 19
Strawberries  36 12

Dinner
Alsace tart (Trader Joe's)/flat bread with ham, onions, and gruyere (one half)  114 300
Lettuce, Cos Or Romaine - Raw  56 10
Tomatoes, Red, Ripe - Raw, June Thru October Average  91 19
Salad Dressing, Kraft Light Done Right! Italian Dressing  31 53

Snacks
Bananas  118 105
Almonds  14 81
Dark Chocolate - 65% cacao - Chocolate Santander  8 49
Food tasting at Trader Joe's  20 121
Dark Chocolate - 65% cacao - Chocolate Santander  8 49
Dark Chocolate - 65% cacao - Chocolate Santander  8 49
Milk, Nonfat, Fluid - With Added Vitamin A (Fat Free Or Skim)  184 63

Okay, you said that "I lost 114 pounds 6 years ago.  I went from 276 to 162 pounds.  I know HOW to lose weight, and I know WHAT to eat to lose weight.  I walked 5 miles per day almost every single day but at least 5/7 days."

But you've gained quite a bit of it back... please start again by "changing your lifestyle"  Athena has given you some good meal plans to start with... eat the foods you enjoy in the right amounts and you'll lose the weight and keep it off...

By working this "lifestyle change" you'll train yourself to make good choices. 

It doesn't matter how much determination you have, how much strength of will, how much control, whatever... if you are punishing yourself mentally by restricting yourself to foods that you do not enjoy and on top of that punishing your body by restricting your calories so that you do not eat enough to nourish it, your body and mind will certainly win over any determination in your heart. It's called survival.

Do yourself a favour and make sensible changes to your lifestyle that you can handle for the rest of your life. Why would you want to lose all that weight fast in a bad way, stay slim for a couple months/years, then gain it all back as opposed to doing it in a slow, steady, healthy way so that you are healthy and slim for the rest of your days?????

I have to add, if you do the Kashi GoLean diet, no one will want to be around you because of the GAS!!!

Looking in my crystal ball - I see....

You!  getting so sick of the taste of Kashi that you never eat it again as long as you live!

I'm not trying to be flip, I'm just speaking from experience with diets that limit food choices.  They all work in the short run, then, when it's over you'll gain back every pound plus more.

I eat Kashi golean almost every day and love it!!  But, I'm a creature of habit... can't imagine getting tired of the stuff.  Hehe =)

I've done this before!!

I works great!

What I would do is have Kashi for breakfast. For lunch I would have soup, salad, or a sandwhich. I would have another bowl of Kashi for my third meal. I ate almost all the veggies I wanted and added some fruit for snacks or maybe a yogurt or something!

Eating my 'real' meal mid-day helped me not to get sick of eating Kashi (but I love it, so it was hard to get sick of to start with).

I lasted 5 days the first time I did it and 6 the second, and I lost almost 2 pounds both of those weeks! Im going to try this again soon (when im not insanely busy and can actually sit down and have a bowl of anything instead of just a meal bar, hehe)

Anyway, GOOD Luck! let us know how it goes

I've been reading a lot notes from people talking about strange diets and fads and I think a lot of us need a way to jump-start ourselves. The system of "one particular cereal only" or some sort of official diet with a name or official food. Something BIG and obviously different, rather than just eating less.

A couple of months ago, about the time I decided I needed some major lifestyle changes, I did a protein fruit flush thing a friend recommended. Something to just launch the whole program.

Looking back, it made a difference. Not a physical one, but psychological. It seems like it formed a break from the old habits before falling into the new ones. Sort of a ceremony saying goodbye to the old life of eating.

Anyway, that's what I've decided. . . it's not something you live with forever, but it's a symbol of making a decision to change. Of course this is 20/20 hindsight. Maybe I thought I would really manage to keep up the crazy diet thing for all the pounds I had to lose? I can't recall. We're talking WEEKS ago.

Lucky for me, I soon found c-c.

Anyway, that's just a thought. . .and it's clear I should go to bed.  

Oh, and I'm one of those people who can eat the same damn cereal every morning! I put in different fruit sometimes for a change.