First Week on Diet

Well, let me tell you that this past week has been hard. It's hard to go cold turkey and not eat carbs and sugar. I love my bread, pasta and cookies. Doesn't everyone?

For starters I don't like drinking eight glasses of water a day and for the most part I didn't end up drinking eight glasses. I hate running to the bathroom all day plus waking up at night and getting out of my nice, warm bed to go. I would rather drink sweet tea and Diet Coke. Some days I did have unsweetened tea with Sweet'n Low and Diet Coke with lunch or dinner.

Breakfasts have been hard to. I don't like to eat breakfast as soon as I get up, I would rather wait till 9:30 and eat. The only type of eggs I like are scrambled and I can't do that at work. So I have been doing a no no and eating Cream of Wheat for breakfast. I'm not suppose to eat that till Cycle 2, oh well.

Lunches. All I can say is I'm tired of salads with canned chicken. I really wasn't a salad eater to begin with so eating them almost everyday is not my idea of something yummy. Some days I did go to Chick-fil-a and have their grilled chicken nuggets with fruit and a Diet Coke. Yah, for Chick-fil-a for having grilled nuggets! Not many fast food places have things for you to eat if you are trying to be healthy besides a salad. Boring!

For snacks during the day I have been eating oranges, apples, baby carrots, and yogurt. I have been getting Dannon Light & Fit Nonfat Vanilla Yogurt in quarts then I will divide that up into servings and add frozen blueberries to it. So yummy.

Dinner hasn't been too bad. I had a taco salad, tilipia with Green Giant Cauliflower & Cheese Sauce (it has a value of 1 point on Weight Watchers and only 50 calories per serving), turkey burger with asparagus, and McDonald's Bacon Ranch Salad with grilled chicken. I got the McDonald's salad on Saturday on my way home from Nicole's so I took it home and used my fat free dressing instead of using theirs. Yesterday, Jeff and I did go to Applebee's for a late lunch/early dinner and I had the Napa Chicken and Portobellos. I ate the chicken, mushrooms and some onions then gave the red potatoes to Jeff and had some of his vegetables. I was so proud of myself that I didn't even eat one potato. Go me!

At night I have been eating some almonds, which is also a no no. You aren't suppose to eat anything after 7:00 pm. and I'm usually eating them around 9:00. My tummy starts growling and I would rather put something in it before I go to bed so I don't wake up starving.

Drum roll please.............

I have lost 3.8 lbs. so far. I broke down and weighed myself on Saturday and I had lost 2.8 lbs. then I weighed myself again this morning, since it had officially been a week, and I had lost another pound. I hope the scale was right.

Only ten more days on Cycle 1.