Starting weight: 297.6
Today’s Weight: 289.5
Today’s change: -1.5
Net change: -8.1
VLC day 6.
Dosage 160 iu @ 9:30pm yesterday.
Last night Fearghus suggested that after the diet we should keep our portions and make up of meals on par with the meals on the diet. Just add breakfast. I support this though it may need a bit more tuning. I’m badly missing breakfast. I also think that adding a modest carb to meals (whole wheat bread, rice, etc) would be okay.
Post diet plan:
– Maintain smaller portion sizes.
– Eat breakfast. I think our standard breakfast (egg, toast/tortilla) is fine.
– Make dinners in specific portion sizes. Immediately package up extra portions and put them away.
– Focus on meals that have a bulk of veggies to fill out from the meat portion.
– Keep drinking lots of water.
Today I noticed that I feel weak. Not all the time, just out of umph when I try to exert myself (bending over and folding canvas).
I also noticed “I’m bored I should eat something” and “I’m stressed, I’d love a couple of chocolate chips”. It’s weird to feel these urges, identify them and then fulfill them with something else (or not fulfill them). A lot of today’s stress occurred because I didn’t get to eat lunch until 2pm and by then I was FAMISHED. So at about 1:30pm I got a bit overwhelmed by work (too many emergencies going off all at once) and really got the urge for a few chocolate chips. Instead I took a deep breath, wrote down all of the tasks that needed to be done and identified that I was STARVING and that regardless of how much of an emergency something is at work, I need to feed myself first. To be fair, I work in Ads.. so really how much of an emergency can it be?
Dinner was a bit salty but really fabulous. I made AB Chicken and just left the honey out of the brine. Totally fab! Will make again. That and I made a huge batch so now we have AB chicken in the freezer.
What I ate:
Breakfast: coffee with stevia
Lunch: Moroccan meatballs, tomato and cucumber salad
Snack: apple, grissini
Dinner: AB chicken (with no honey), grissini, wilted chard
Snack: apple
Water count: 72 oz
