Here is how the diet works:
Daily Exercise: about 1 hour (or more!!) of physical movement, cardio, and weights thrown in a bit. Yoga and dance are not bad ideas. This can be achieved at a gym or at home. I am doing both. 5 days a week at the gym and two days a week (my busy days) DVDs at home to equal a hour. My preference are classes and about 2 hours a day with 1 hr on 2 days at home for a total of 12 hours. I feel that this is sufficient for weight loss and health.
EXAMPLE:
Stretch, 5 min warm up at low to med pace for cardio to 20 mins at high pace and 5 min cool down at low pace, stretch, weights, yoga, qi gong or pilates or other, stretch.
Classes include (this counts as cardio): Zumba, Dance, Bike, Aerobics, ETC
Classes include (counts as other/stretch): Yoga, pilates, ETC
One, if at a gym, can do intervals for one hour or 30 minutes if a break is needed.
FOOD:
This is the big part since, for me, and most women 70% of losing weight is what you eat.
The mostly exact numbers are:
Weekly ration for 1 adult
- Bacon & Ham 4 oz
- Meat to the value of 1 shilling and sixpence (around about 1/2 lb minced beef)
- Butter 2 oz
- Cheese 2 oz
- Margarine 4 oz
- Cooking fat 4 oz
- Milk 3 pints
- Sugar 8 oz
- Preserves 1 lb every 2 months
- Tea 2 oz
- Eggs 1 fresh egg per week
- Sweets/Candy 12 oz every 4 weeks
In addition to this a points system was put in place which limited your purchase of tinned or imported goods. 16 points were available in your ration book for every 4 weeks and that 16 points would enable you to purchase for instance, 1 can of tinned fish or 2lbs of dried fruit or 8 lbs of split peas.
For a modern person this means about (in one week):
2 slices of ham, 1/2 pound ground beef, 2 large slices of butter and cheese, 4 large slices of margarine (see examples in images below!) and 4 large slices in cooking fat aka oils for those whom do not use fat like spam or drippings, 6 cups of milk (so one a day pretty much), 8 oz of sugar(image ex below), 1/8 lb preserves a week, 4 cups of tea (this I am NOT rationing personally!), 1 egg per week and 3 oz of sweets (see image below OR appx. 4 fun-sized candies, give or take).
(sugar)
(1 slice = 1 ounce)
(amt of sweets in the chopped choco)
ANDDDDDD any amount of veggies and fruit! Go wild my dears! ;)
Wheat and Grains: I say limit wheat (following WW1 diet) to once a day (or better yet follow the two wheatless and two meatless days they had, with the other 3 being one meatless meal and one wheatless meal which is what I am TRYING to do!)
Other Grains: Not so big a deal. Again if you have a wheatless day try to do oats and rice or whatever to only two meals which one veggie/vegan meal a day. This is best health-wise... This is NOT a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle. YOU can make it one by substitution of meats and the like!!
Don't forget to try to drink at least 60 oz of water! ( A min of 30 oz!)
I think that is all for now! :)
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