Game On!

When Kaylee was in town last month for a visit she was in the middle of playing a Game On diet. She cooked a lot of meals for us- thank you!! so we got familiar with the routine. It is less of a 'diet' and more of a healthy eating plan. Five smaller meals a day, each spaced out 2-4 hrs from one another. Each meal includes a palm size of protein a fist portion of carbs/fruit and a thumb size of healthy fat. You also have to get four fist sizes of veggies in per day- we do two at lunch and two at dinner. No snacking in between meals, no soda, no processed sugary junk. You have to drink 3 liters of water each day and get (or intend to get) 7 hrs of sleep each night and 20 min. of exercise a day.

This plan was created after a writer for Grey's Anatomy had trouble loosing her pregnancy weight. She couldn't follow the healthy guidelines alone so her doctor made it into a game and she competed against someone. She wrote a book about it and now others have joined. You team up and the game lasts 4 weeks. You get points for eating the correct meals each day, drinking water, getting sleep, exercising 20 min a day, communicating with your teammates and opponents, starting a good habit, dropping a bad, etc.

Jonathan and I have never 'been on a diet,' nor do we consider ourselves obese, but we both wanted to drop the baby weight that was picked up over the last year. This game also gives you one day off a week and one meal off, so we thought it was pretty doable. We are three weeks in and I have dropped 7 lbs- putting me under my pre-Heath weight :) Jonathan is still in bed so hasn't weighed in yet for this week but he had dropped 5 lbs as of last week. We are pretty happy with it and so is our friend Adam who joined us. We had some opponents lined up but they wanted to wait until after the busy season of training and move in, so we went ahead without them, kind of as a trial run. The website for the book has some of the info, like the foods you can eat http://www.thegameondiet.com/. If you are interested in playing the game let me know and I'll send you more information.