Seriously. That's 3 in addition to the 2.5 from yesterday and the .5 from Day 1. I weighed myself at least 5 times this morning because sometimes my scale is inconsistent.
WWWOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOO!
8-9 - Vanilla shake (took me a long time to get through it)
11:15 - Hot chocolate (good again)
2:15 - Cream of Chicken soup (bland but not vile)
5:00 - Banana pudding (fine, better than a lot of stuff)
7:15 - 2 pieces of ham and a piece of cheese (yes, a cheat)
8:30 - L/G turkey breast and vegetables
10:30 - Hot chocolate
Day 4 Morning: Today I am feeling very optimistic. Yes, I know that I'm losing water weight. It is actually feeling similar to my weight loss right after I have a baby. I lose a lot of water weight very quickly and have to pee all the time.
I don't care that it's water weight though. The fact is it was still 3 lbs of me and now there are 3 lbs less of me. :) I'm being realistic and know the weight loss will slow down, but this is the first diet where I've had such dramatic results my first week. I usually lose 3 lbs total the first week and that's after being pretty hungry most of the time.
Hunger: fine. I start getting hungry after 2 or 3 hours, then I make up a mix and feel fine for another couple of hours. I do feel hungrier in the evenings, but not sure if those are just cravings for my usual TV watching munchies.
Cravings: not so fine. They keep hitting me out of the blue. In the car this morning I wanted [Edited - I don't want to derail myself or anyone else with these tasty words of temptation]. Even though I'm craving these things I know I'm not going to go binge on them. Bottom line: Giving in to food fantasies is so not worth it, I can deal with the cravings.
Food coping strategies:
- No smelling
- No swishing around in the mouth
- No adding ice to shakes, it just makes them bigger
- Adding spices helps sometimes
Lean and Green plans: Tonight I'm having the rest of the lemon-butter turkey breast with the delicious veggies. Tomorrow for lunch I'm going out and ordering salmon and grilled vegetables. Words can't express how much I'm looking forward to these two meals. :)
Future concerns: Easter weekend. The candy isn't tempting to me (surprisingly). We're driving 5 hours after work to watch 2 hockey games in a row and meeting friends/family there. I can already smell the popcorn! I've hoarded two bars all week just to get me through the hockey games.
We'll spend the weekend just outside Philadelphia where we always splurge and get philly cheesesteaks and pizza. In my head I'm allowing myself to eat some of the meat/cheese on a sandwich. Hopefully when it's right there I will be so strong that I won't even take a bite. I will definitely NOT be eating any bread or crust though.
Late-afternoon thoughts: I'm about to go make a banana pudding, and I just realized it's 5pm, I've only eaten about 320ish calories today, and I am not ravenously hungry. I feel like I should go eat this mix, but that's it. I'm not secretly harboring thoughts about getting food from the snack machine, or picking up some fast food on my drive home to tide me over 'til dinner.
Someone has apparently replaced me with Folgiers crystals.
Food confessions: I intended to come straight home and eat my dinner, but I had to turn around and leave again right away. I didn't have any bars or anything fast I could make, so I grabbed no-carb ham/cheese. The real cheat was that I also ate one piece of Belgian chocolate. It was small though, and worth it.
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