Our last meal was Sunday evening but had free fruit meal Monday morning.  Result?  3 pounds lost.  I have 32 weeks to attain my ideal body weight on 1000 calorie intake per day.  So that is roughly 350 calories per meal.    I hope this lost pounds will be lost forever.  hahahahaa .  There will be another session that will begin on Saturday just to avoid eating a lot during the long holiday.  But I am not going to join for I have many payables at the end of the month.

Here are some of my photos during the Monday morning.

–complimentary breakfast–

–Yay! Me with big smile ^^ –

–The some of us with our Clinical Dietitian!
5 of our DAREmates are not in this photo –

Can you guess who lost the most?  It’s Nonoy, the guy in this group.  The one and only guy.  He lost 10 pounds as he combined the diet with exercise.  Monday was still their 6th day and he has already lost that much.

Join us next time!

There will be another batch that will begin on Saturday, October 29 and then another one in November.  You may call 221-3029 and have it connected with the Nutrition and Dietetics Department.  Look for Ma’am Lai. 

DARE is an acronym for Dietary Approach to Reduce Excess Weight and a program of the Nutrition and Dietetics of Mindanao Sanitarium and Hospital.  I am obese grade 2.  I have 32 weeks to gain my ideal body weight as long as i coupled my diet with exercise.  This is a caloric diet.  I am allowed to eat 1000 calories per day and that is barely 350 calories per meal.  So those who have enrolled have to familiarize how much calories we are going to store if we eat food.  It is not really dieting to become skinny but it is more on becoming responsible and conscious on anything that we put into our mouth.

All foods served throughout the week is either raw or cooked water-based.  The juices are all fresh fruit juices: beetroots, watermelon, tomato, carrots, and a combination of two or three of these fruits.

I missed Sunday breakfast because I slept morning already and I was not able to wake up on time for breakfast. ^^

Shown are our foods during the last three days:

FRIDAY -

SATURDAY -

SUNDAY -

Your stomach shouldn’t be a waist basket.  ~Author Unknown

 A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.  ~Author Unknown

This post also serves as my entry for:

Monday and Tuesday Food in the previous post.

Wednesday, the third day, was fruits and vegetables day -

Breakfast:  Garden salad, slice of papaya, watermelon, cucumber soup, and tea.
Did not drink much of tea at the end of the meal as I was in a hurry.

LUNCH:

Raw Pechay
Blanched camote tops
half slices of 3 fruits
carrot juice
Mixed vegetable soup

DINNER:

blanched string beans with ground peanuts
fruit mixed
squash soup with celery leaves (so yummy)

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If you have any question regarding this program, please contact me through the comment portion with your email address so that we can get back at you through email.

I enrolled again in the DARE program – my third time.  This time, I promise to document each day the food we  eat.  Today is the second day.  I should have started posting yesterday but finished doing my stuff so late.  I have so many pending posts to do but due to tiredness at the end of the day, my brain seems unable to function to write.

Anyhow, let me feature Day 1 & 2 Food.

MONDAY – FRUITS

The juice is the lovely reddish pink made of beetroot or red taproot.  It was served morning and lunch.  The first time I had it, I cannot take it.  But the second time and the more now, I do love it.

Fruits is a mixture of apple, pine apple, and watermelon for breakfast.  Then for lunch, mango was added. In the evening, papaya was added.

TUESDAY – VEGETABLES

Vegetables made up our food today, Tuesday.  Vegetables were cooked water base.  The camote tops were served RAW. The misua soup was so yummy with no trace of oil.

Possibly tomorrow, we will be back to fruits.  It’s going to be the third day.

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If you have questions regarding this program, you may contact me privately.  This DARE – Dietary Approach to Reduce Excess Weight is a program of the Nutrition and Dietetics Department of Mindanao Sanitarium and Hospital, Iligan City.  Offered once a month and every session, it’s getting a good number.

The DARE days were over last Sunday evening.  I missed the last dinner because I was so tired and woke up past seven in the evening already.  Good thing I did not woke up hungry.  I just had some warm drink later in the midnight.

Result?  I lost another 3 pounds.  Now I am praying that in the next weeks to come, I won’t gain back the 3 instead lose another 3.  I feel it is a challenge for me to lose 3 pounds in each week because I don’t eat regularly or at least regular breakfast.  I really need someone to prepare my food.  It is hard to cook 1 cup of vegetable dish every meal.  So it would be nice someone prepares the food for everyone and then I will just pick a serving of it.

Another thing to note, this is my first time to be a bit conscious of how much calorie I can get from a certain food.  I guess from now on, I should memorize the common foods I am eating like, a cup of rice, a serving of green vegetables, cooked banana, ripe table banana, bread, etc.

I found a calorie counter that I like using to check the number of calories a certain food have.  Check it out you might also like it.