The Sonoma Diet – Day 1
I love the food. I LOVE the food! It’s healthy, lots of produce, good protein too. The only negative is that it takes a long time to prepare. The lunch menu required as much preparation as I normally put into a dinner. It was good though, black bean chili and spinach salad. Dinner was steak salsa, brown rice, and broccoli with lemon and dill. Breakfast was steel cut oatmeal, the kind you cook for half an hour. The snack was celery with peanut butter.
Yesterday I tried to prepare by purchasing most of the food for the week. I am on Wave 1. This portion of the diet is the most restrictive and does not include fruits. They are added in Wave 2. It does include lots of produce, lean meats or fish, nonfat dairy, and high fiber whole grain breads and cereal. The online site lists the menu for the upcoming week and has the ability to change meals or add or delete (if you’re eating out or other reason). The flexibility is great. It automatically generates a shopping list and from it you can check off the items that you already have and then shop for the rest. I wanted to get a jump start last night and wanted to find a recipe to use the lean pork chops that I had. It was easy to search for pork and select from a great list of recipes.
Another part of the program is the online community. I introduced myself and saw that there were a few others starting today as I am. It seems like a nice group.
Tomorrow is New Years and I do plan to modify the diet for the evening. That will take some planning.