Introducing....Meagan Smetana!

Meet Meagan Smetana! Meagan so kindly volunteered her time for the post Megan Fox diet interview. The interview went great, and I'll be posting it soon. However, in the mean time, here's a little profile.

Name: Meagan Smetana
Education: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Where: Fisico (617 Snelling Ave St. Paul)
Classes: Cardio kickboxing, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:15 (see here for details)        
Personal:
Favorite food (healthy): strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries
Favorite food (junk): Oreos
Favorite work out song: Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO
Guilty pleasure: US Weekly

Finally, a teaser quote from the interview:

"I want them [her customers] to be confident, strong...and not constantly compare themselves...ask what is it going to take for me to feel confident."

She covers everything in the interview--from the food to choice to nutrition to exercise and even BMI. Insightful and sincere, she shed some light on the basics behind the Megan Fox diet. Again, thank you so much Meagan for volunteering your time for the interview!

Winners and Losers

No pictures quite yet, but here's a list of the winners and losers of the Megan Fox diet experiment.

Winners:
1. The ab work outs. 15-20 minutes three times a week, at least 5-10 minutes every day...it felt AMAZING and they were easy enough to do at home.
2. Biking. Honestly, I don't always have the motivation to go running. The biking worked out pretty well.
3. Less social eating. According to this, we overeat in social situations. The restricted diet made it really hard to eat in social conditions, so I already felt limited.
4. Fruits and veggies. I'm not sure I would have tried using carrots in place of chips without this diet, but when it came to hummus and guacamole, I enjoyed it. Plus I could portion my food more. Score.
5. The food in general. Yogurt, almonds, fruits, veggies, eggs...once I got over the carb cravings (which I eventually did), I enjoyed what I ate.

On the fence:
1. Water and cider vinegar. The first time I tried it, my appetite immediately went away...because I felt too sick to want to eat. Other than that, it tasted alright. Depending on how much I put in my water, I could bring that sick feeling back though. Under no means am I endorsing Fergie's cider vinegar shots, but it tasted acidic and crisp and...fine I guess.
2. Carb cravings. They did disappear...but they sucked while I had them.

Losers:
1. Rude. I felt really rude not being able to eat normal food. And I was SUPER cranky the first few days because of it.
2. Lack of variety. I ended up eating the same things...all the time...
3. Overeating. With the original carb cravings in full swing, I overate to try to hit the cravings. I guess I have no self control. Oh well.

Stay tuned for the trainer interview and further details!

How to Eat Like Megan Fox: Day Five

For the record, PMSing and not being able to eat grains/chocolate sucks. My replacement? Carrots and hummus. Nom nom nom....but not the same.

This is a close up of almonds. Honestly, I don't know how I feel about almonds. An ounce a day isn't bad, but I don't enjoy them as much as I did the first few days. Like eggs. Don't get me started on eggs.

Anyways, enough whining. I'm excited to announce that the trainer is lined up for the post diet interview. I should have a little profile of her up soon...until then, she'll be a secret.

Finally, I've recieved a few what's-next type questions. Once the diet is done, I'm going to post my personal winners and losers of this diet. Although the no grains thing has rubbed me the wrong way, there's been some things that I've enjoyed. Hopefully that'll be up Sunday, but as I'm going out of town this weekend that may be a bit of a stretch. The trainer interview will be up sometime in the next week too, as well as a full recap of the diet (pictures, weight, etc...). Until then, no grains...and another 3 ounces of almonds.

How to Eat Like Megan Fox: Day Three

Forgive me, all of you, for I have slipped up.

I've been eating a little bit over on the calories. Yesterday was a friend's birthday, and I was put on cake duty. For the record, it was a delightful flourless cake...so I didn't break the grains rules. However, in that silver of cake, there was definitely some added sugar. There was also five eggs in the whole thing, and I topped it with almonds. Redeeming, possibly?

Upon eating all the fruit/fish/eggs in the house, I started to crave carbs yesterday. Not fun. Although for the most part I feel full (a few almonds now and then does the trick), when I want grains, there's no easy way out.

However, it's a new day. I'm satisfied. For the record, the breakfasts so far (peach/egg/water/coffee/almonds, 2 eggs/coffee, no fat yogurt/fruit/almonds/coffee/water) have been great. I feel full, I feel healthy and most importantly I'm enjoying my food. Enjoying my food and eating breakfast are two of my favorite eating tips, and I'm sure I'll go into depth on them later.

For now, it's more almonds (!), water and cider vinegar, and some intense core workouts. On the plus side, I think I've managed to wrangle up a trainer to do a post diet interview. Hopefully she'll be able to answer my questions about the long term sustainability of the diet, the effects of cider vinegar, and a handful of other issues.