Day 3- I QUIT!

Ok, this diet sucks. I can't continue to do this. It is torture!!! Today started out ok, didn't eat until I got to work, after 9. I had a bowl of oatmeal with blueberries and a package of splenda with 2 egg whites. Skipped the mid am snack and for lunch I had again the same boring shit. a cup of lettuce, with 2oz of chicken, half a sweet potato and some oil & vinegar. By this point in the day I was seriously contemplating my options. I knew I was not going to be able to make it work for me. Let me reiterate.. IT SUCKS! Food is so bland cause you can't have any salt, practically no fruit and zero milk products. This is not going to work for me. I love food too much. So after lunch I went to the weight watchers website and did a bit of research. After talking to my girls on twitter who are all doing ww and supporting each other I decided to go for it and signed up for a free 7 day trial. In the meantime I ate an apple (such a rebel), made myself a cheese quesadilla, then Justin brought home BK and I ate a whopper with cheese and a large fry, plus a couple of bits of a mcd's triple cheeseburger. What a fat ass. I did track the points online of what I ate today and it was 49. Yup, 49 points..today. So tomorrow I will start all over again, a bit happier and with loads of support.

Day 2-50% failure

Ok, so yesterday was day number 2 and I started off good. I wanted to go for the left over pizza for breakfast, but I had oatmeal and blueberries instead. (hooray me) I added in some orange crystal light to sweeten it and it was pretty good. I did not eat the egg white I was supposed to at 8, but rather I ate 4 egg whites at 11:30 along with some green beans. Lunch was the same, 1 cup of lettuce with 2oz chicken and 1/2 sweet potato; only this time I added some oil and vinegar to the lettuce. (I just could not choke down dry gross lettuce again.) So up to this point sounds pretty good, right? Well this is where it stops. My husband came to pick me up and we went to get new cell phones and he brought the leftover pizza with him. I ate 3 slices of leftover deep dish pizza on the way to costco. Terrible, but I was hungry since I didn't eat the mid pm snack. We got our new phones and headed home (several hours later). So for dinner we stopped at McDonald's and I had 10 piece chicken nugget meal with large fries, buffalo sauce and ranch dressing. Oh and a m&m mcflurry. Stellar. Already hating this diet.

Preamble and Day 1

After weeks of researching, thinking, contemplating, agonizing, strategizing and planning we decided to start a new diet life style. I have done a bunch of research on the 6 Week Body Makeover plan, and watched the infomercial just about every day for 2 weeks. I went to our local library and got a book written by the same guy who does the 6 week program. I was so fascinated that I read the whole book in one day (a feat for anyone who knows me) and started planning from there. I made photo copies of pages of the book, and tried to plan as much as possible. Yesterday I went to the grocery store and was quiet pleased that I was able to buy all healthy food and stay on budget. So I spent the afternoon yesterday cooking, portioning and planning some more. I made grilled chicken (26 2oz portions) green beans for me and broccoli for the hubs, hard cooked eggs, ground turkey with a mushrooms, asparagus, onion mix, potatoes, sweet potatoes and rice.

This morning I woke up slightly excited to begin this new journey, although cautious and weary, knowing my track record. I weighed myself at 277.5 pounds just before getting in the shower. This is slightly better than the 282 I saw last week while making dinner one night. It was oatmeal and fresh blueberries before I left the house and 2 egg whites when I got to work. After a minor crisis was solved I had 2 more egg white and some green beans at 11:30. Lunch at 1 was 1/2 a sweet potato, some romaine lettuce and 2oz of chicken. This was ok, the lettuce was very bland and I don't really like it in general, but with no salad dressing it was borderline gross. I tried to dissolve some of that true lemon stuff in some water and that too was just lame. Tomorrow I think I will bring in a lemon or lime to try to help or perhaps some vinegar, something to help cut all that...blech... green I guess. Afternoon was ground turkey 2oz, and a cup of the mushroom/asparagus mix. So far at this point during the day I was doing ok. Then it came time to go home for dinner and this is where I fail. Dinner-time is the worst time of day for me. after driving home I was so convinced that I had to have pizza for dinner that I was able to convince and bribe my husband into letting me get it. I am a terrible person for this; continually ruled by my flesh. But as my husband pointed out to me, when I try to jump into these things head first and give it all or nothing, that is when I continually fail. It is better to do this in baby steps. So today I had a great morning and afternoon and not so great this evening. Tomorrow I will take another step and get a little better. Change one habit everyday and I'll be good in no time- ok not no time, but faster than doing nothing at all. I think that setting mini-goals for everyday is going to be the right way for me to accomplish this. My goal for tomorrow is to eat diner and after dinner snack as planned.