Round 2 – VLCD 1: Trying this again

Hi everyone… So, I know I kinda went MIA for a little while.. But I’m back, and trying this again.

I know HCG works. But when I went off the diet for the holidays, it really kicked me to the curb with a complimentary doughnut in hand.

Today’s my first day back on my slightly-modified-HCG plan & I’m hoping to get to goal by my birthday in June. Crossing my fingers. 🙂

Now, since I have so much to lose.. I’m planning on staying on the diet until I reach my goal, but am also making it more manageable by allowing myself things which, while they aren’t on protocol, I can still lose on.. Until they no longer work.  I’m also allowing myself to take little weekends off in order to keep my sanity for the next 5 1/2 months.. I’m still not sure how often I’m going to allow that. If this takes longer to lose weight this way, then so be it. I need to do what I’ll stick with. And I’ve found that if I feel like I’m depriving myself, I binge… and gain. With the little things I allow myself, it shouldn’t feel like I’m really depriving myself.

So.. The reason I decided to get back to blogging was because.. While I was looking at other blogs to keep myself encouraged, I ran across one blog that really made me want to succeed.  With that said, this particular blog was so incredibly negative… So incredibly harsh and crude (Tho the writer herself was an overweight HCG-dieter, herself) That I decided I wasn’t going to be a bitter-dieter. That’s all there is to it. 🙂

Dieting sucks. Really, it does. But… being overweight sucks too. It seems to me that if you’re determined to be unhappy & bitter, that you’d probably have a difficult time succeeding to your goal weight.

Either way, that blog encouraged me in basically being the opposite. I WILL lose the weight and get to goal .. and do it all without being hateful & discouraging to other people.

Okay, so! On to dieting… 🙂

I started the diet out today with my modified plan & will see how it treats me tomorrow. Over the holiday season I gained back 17 of the 30 I lost. Not so great. But I kinda went on an uninhibited longterm binge. My husband was out of town & with me being here by myself and the two kids, I ate to compensate for my bummed-out-ness.

So.. in reading this blog, please remember that this is COMPLETELY OFF PROTOCOL. But, I’m doing what works best for me, right now. When I have only 20lbs to lose, I’ll do a strict round in order to reset my metabolism & set me up for long term life-style. So… to emphasize.. Read with care!! Mileage may vary.

I started out the day with:

6am- woke up with Hubby & helped get him out the door for work. Weighed in & started drinking my water as I got my daughter around for school.

12:30pm- Finished up my first bottle of water & rolled some deli-ham (I haven’t had any problems eating deli-ham on the diet.. as long as it’s thinly sliced lunch meat), salad & a sprinkle of mozarella cheese (in place of my milk) in a tortilla shell. (I’ve found I can have Taco-Bell tacos on the diet and still lose.) We’ll see if store-bought tortilla shells work as well as taco-bell’s. If it doesn’t, I’ll just go back to not having them and treating myself to taco-bell every so often. I’d just really like to be able to fix tacos for my family at night time and actually eat them WITH them. 🙂

3:30pm- Picked up my daughter from the busstop and went on a quick little walk with the kids & our border-aussie in the snow. 🙂

4pm- Made the kids hot-chocolate & started steeping some green tea for me.

6:30pm- Made Potatoe & Ham soup for hubby & the kids & decided to skip dinner after taste-testing the soup a few times. (I also ate some of the ham I put in the soup… Fatty-ham… Not so great for my weight loss.)

I ended up having some mandarin-oranges in place of dinner. I’m not sure how that measures up to regular oranges but we’ll see tomorrow. 🙂

The plan for the rest of the night… Share some light popcorn with the hubby & a diet coke as we watch Desperate Housewives.

I know my menu seems pretty laid back & relaxed… And totally off protocol, which it is, but I’m trying something new in the hopes of sticking with it long term for the weight loss I so desperately need.

I know alot of hardcore dieters will say ‘you can do it, if you try hard enough’ concerning completely on-protocol. And this is probably very true. But… I also think you know yourself better then anyone else does.. And you need to do what YOU think will be best for you. 🙂

It’s kinda exciting… My mother in law and I spoke about Christmas this year & she’s wanting us to go to Wyoming to see them for it. Normally, I’d probably be feeling a little tense & dreading it due to my lack of self-confidence & self-image. I really don’t like being around people.. Not since I’ve gained all this weight & it’s really hindered our social life. This year, however, I’m excited.

Hopefully, by Christmas, I’ll be at my ultimate goal weight… (I should be my ultimate goal weight in June, but I’m giving myself some leniency due to the laid-back nature of my protocol.) So I’m very excited to enjoy this winter. The first time I’ll be at a healthy weight since giving birth to my first kid.. And the first time my husband’s family will of seen me skinny since before I married him. 🙂 Hoping to try snowboarding again.. And this time hopefully can get up on my own after falling in the snow!

Wellp.. On to enjoy the rest of the evening.

Happy Losing!!

[<3] Happy

 

 

 

VLCD Day 3-Still under construction.. Battery died on laptop. :)

Hi everyone! A lil late tonight in posting yesterday’s progress… But here goes!

Woke up, daughter was still sick (had been up all night and I got VERY little sleep…) So i crashed.. and got some sleep. 🙂 I also, forgot to take my drops.

I’ve been using my George Foreman Grill and… yum! I still haven’t figured out how to cook it thoroughly yet (without burning the outside) but am tweaking. 🙂

Lunch-

Grilled chicken breast (double protein again) seasoned with garlic powder, seasalt, black pepper, onion salt, onion powder and italian seasonings.

Marinara Sauce seasoned with garlic powder, italian seasonings, a bit of stevia. I poured it over the top of the chicken 🙂

Midday Snack-

1/2 an Orange

Dinner-

Grilled steak, marinated in teriyaki sauce (rogue.. :/) I heated some coconut oil in my mini wok and began cooking some broccoli.. Also using some of the teriyaki sauce from the marinade.

I hopped on the exercise bike to burn 20 calories before hopping upstairs with my cocoa-crack and Diet Coke to watch a couple episodes of ds9. 🙂

I was exhausted throughout the day but.. just really didn’t have an opportunity to nap. By night time (11:30) I climbed in bed and proceeded to try to fall asleep for the next 3 hours. For some reason, even though I was exhausted… I just couldn’t fall asleep. I went downstairs an did some cleaning while I couldn’t sleep.

I woke up to a .6 loss. 🙂

But… On to dire news….. Ran out of drops today, so moving into yet another ‘break’ while I wait for my order to get in. I don’t know how long it’ll take… But I’m not counting on them getting here tomorrow or saturday. (I should’ve ordered them sooner, but really wasn’t thinking! I ended up ordering them on Monday)

Aw, battery’s dieing on the laptop! On to watch some more ds9 🙂

[<3] happy

VLCD Day 22

A quick post before I drag myself into the kitchen to do dishes. 🙂

I cut out my Braggs liquid Aminos last night and didn’t have broccoli to see what my losses were the next morning.. But woke up to a stall. Not sure what I did wrong yesterday, but plan on cutting out my diet coke for the next couple days to see if it helps.

Also… I quit taking my drops today (VLCD Day 23). My daughter has a birthday this weekend and I really want to be able to celebrate it without having to stress out about my 500 calories and trying to make P3 protocol food. I’m planning on restarting P2 on Monday for 2 more weeks.. But, we’ll see how things go. So.. 48 hours of VLCD without the drops before I can move on to Phase 3.

Morning-

Husband let me stay in bed while he got my daughter ready for school.. I took my drops when I woke up to fix her hair. 🙂

Lunch-

Green Tea with Stevia, Chicken and Onion spinach leaf salad with half an orange chopped up and a few spritzes of ranch.

Midday Snack-

Ahem.. the rest of my orange. (I earlier had a few spritzes of ranch as my snack…. till i reread it. Man, I must’ve been sleepy)

Dinner-

Steak Spaghetti with onion noodles.

Evening snack-

Diet Coke and Apple

I’d talked to my grandma, and she told me I should really make sure to get all my fruit in.. Because that’s the natural sugar I’ll need to feel good during the day.

Wellp…. Off to get busy. 🙂

I know this stall has to break at some point, and maybe this lil interruption will help out.. Hopefully it doesn’t stall me worse. I’ll have to maybe do an apple day if it doesn’t.

❤ happy

VLCD Day 18- Woo, pluggin along!

Down 1.8 lbs this morning an I’m starting to feel it in my face! 🙂

I can feel my jawbone MUCH better now, and yesterday… I noticed I actually have freckles again! My guess is the constant consumption of water and the fact my body is detoxed must help quite a bit with that.

I also…. Had a diet coke last night for the first time since starting this diet. I’d read in the forums they were allowed, just weren’t healthy for you. (which I already knew they weren’t healthy) But it DID curb any of my cravings for chocolate, etc. 🙂 It almost felt like I was eating normally. I’m rarely hungry and I like the foods well enough so, I felt as if I wasn’t neglecting myself of anything, anymore. As long as it doesn’t hinder my weight-loss, I think I’ll probably keep it as my lil ‘good job’ reward for sticking with protocol and drinking all of my water.

What I had:

Breakfast-

Green Tea with stevia

Lunch-

Baked-Chicken with onion on top on a bed of baby spinach leaves with a couple spritzs of my Ranch Spritzer. Half of an orange.

Dinner-

Steak Roll-Up with Brocolli (next time, i’m going MUCH simpler… Only Onion inside the roll-up and have a veggie side. 🙂 )

I put too much horseradish mustard on the inside of the steak and finally just decided…. Nooooo more fancy stuff. The steak is delicious by itself. Though, I DO want to try a HCG P2-friendly teriyaki sauce with it. 🙂

Snack-

Other half of the Orange and a Diet Coke

 

I’ve been counting up my calender and it looks like I’ve got probably another 2 weeks left (from the looks of my bottle which is already over half empty. :/) and i’ll be doing this diet until next August probably. It’s totally worth it. 🙂 Specially since all my load-days will be on the days I really want with only a few days in between the end of P4 and Loading! 🙂

Keep up the hard work everyone! It’s all worth it in the end. 🙂

❤ happy

 

 

 

 

VLCD Day 17- Budged!

Wooohooo! The scales moved this morning…. Down .6! 🙂

I’m pretty excited to see the loss this morning.. I have to say, I WAS getting a little discouraged.. But just kept trying to remember stalls happen on the diet… ANY diet really. So it’s completely expected.

It doesn’t really change the disappointment when you wake up to no losses after sticking to the protocol though.

Yesterday, I started the day out with :

Breakfast-

Green Tea with Stevia

I had some instant-coffee (my coffee-maker dissapeared)

Lunch-

Wok-fried-chicken chopped up and cooked in coconut oil with onion, garlic & liquid amino. Eaten on a bed of green-leaf-lettuce and half of an orange. (WILL have again! 🙂 )

Dinner-

Wok-fried-shrimp, cooked in coconut oil with onion, garlic, cilantro, a bit of lemon juice and liquid amino (pass on this with shrimp next time. :/) Added broccoli and sauteed until thoroughly cooked. Had half of an orange chopped up in the stir fry (don’t really want to do again…)

I drank about 67 oz of water, and had another green tea during that time… Then had a detox bath later that night. 🙂 It felt SO nice! I was freezing and it seemed like everything was just kinda thawing out as I got in.

Thinking bout Halloween.. And how my husband and I usually stay up that night watching movies & having some of the candy leftover from that night (we don’t get many trick-or-treaters.):/ So, a little bummed… I think I’ll probably be on P3, but still.. No sugar or starches.. So it kinda cuts out candy. 🙂 However, this diet’s about changing my eating-habits anyways.. So I should probably try not to let myself concentrate so much on ‘missing out’ when I can’t eat as much as I’d like!

Thankfully, I think I’ll be starting on Phase 4 for Thanksgiving.. So that’s a huge plus! I’ll be able to have a lil bit of normal food. 🙂

I’ll actually be taking a small break (almost a month) in between the end of P4 and my next round since Christmas comes a couple weeks after the last week of P4… I reallllllly don’t want to start on my second round right before Christmas, so I plan on loading Christmas Eve and Christmas and being on the diet before the new year. 🙂

Woohoo! Big plans. 🙂

 

VLCD Day 16- Staaalll

Stalled… Yep! I woke up this morning to a stall. I haven’t gained nor lost and am at exactly the same weight as I was on Sunday morning.

Now, I still don’t regret my decision on Sunday.. Because, it’s been 4 days and I STILL am not nauseous. Sure, I haven’t lost, but I also haven’t gained.. And if having that egg roll and salad dressing helped me to stick with this diet for another 2 or 3 weeks.. I personally think it’s worth it.. Simply for the fact that I know this stall will break at some point, I just have to stick it out until then. However, I do wish I could’ve figured out a different way to get rid of the nausea. There must be something I can do if it comes back in order to stick to protocol.

If tomorrow, I wake up with the stall continuing, I think I’ll probably do an apple day and hope it helps break it up.

One thing that I absolutely love about this protocol, is .. You know if you stick with it, you will lose weight nearly every day.. And not just a pound a week.. or two pounds a week… Up to 7-8 lbs a week! I mean… That’s pretty amazing right?

Yesterday, I had stir-fry again. YUM. I never realized I could have it, though… I’m beginning to wonder if broccoli is a good idea after all? I absolutely love stir-fry, but if it’s causing my stall (which I’m attributing to the fact I cheated on Sunday) then I’d better retire it till P3.

Breakfast-

Green Tea with Stevia

Lunch-

Broccoli-Steak Stir Fry

INGREDIENTS

3.5 oz of stew-meat/steak

3.5 oz of brocolli

garlic

onion

bragg liquid aminos (I can’t talk about this stuff enough. It’s simply delicious! I actually like it BETTER then soy sauce. You can find it in most health stores I think.)

seasalt

black pepper

coconut oil

DIRECTIONS

Slice onion, Chop garlic while steak’s cooking in the wok/skillet. Add onion, wait on garlic. (garlic loses it’s flavor the longer it’s cooked.)

Add aminos as meat’s cooking and season according to your tastes. Add brocolli and garlic and cook away! I added a lil more aminos to the broccoli.

Dinner-

Chicken Salad with Orange

I cooked chicken with seasalt, black pepper, onion and liquid amino. I added chopped up orange to a green leaf salad and ate the chicken on top. Yum! I’m absolutely loving my amino and my wok. 🙂

I went to sleep before 11 last night! Yay! However..  No loss or gain.

Holding my breath for tomorrow’s scale.

VLCD Day 15- Yay! A break in the clouds.

So, Yesterday I shook things up a bit with a few changes. 🙂 And happily woke up to a .6 loss.. Dropping down to my Pre-Cheat weight on Sunday.

Started out with:

Morning-

Green Tea with Stevia

Lunch-

Albacore (i Doubled the protein for 5 oz.) on baby spinach leaves and onion. Mixed up some Horseradish Mustard with a bit of orange juice and a tiny bit of stevia to make a honey-mustard type dressing.I chopped up some of an orange and ate with my salad. Yum! Though, I’d love to know what kinda spinach leaves Subway uses.. Because there’s has this really good flavor to it.

I ended up eating the rest of my orange not long after since it was a late lunch. 🙂

Dinner-

I went ahead and had a scrambled egg mixed with onion and an itty bitty bit of bell pepper. 🙂 Seasoned it with seasalt & black pepper.

Afterwards, I made some of these macaroons I found from the forums. 🙂 I can’t remember who posted it, but would write the name if i remembered!!

              

Almond Macaroons

4 egg whites
8 tsp. powdered skim milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. almond extract
1 tsp. liquid artificial sweetener
Cinnamon to taste

Beat egg white until stiff. Add skim milk powder. Mix well. Add extracts and sugar substitute. Drop cookies by spoonfuls onto cookie sheet. Bake at 275 degrees for 45 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet and dust with cinnamon.

Makes about 2 dozen.

This recipe works out to about 204 calories for the whole thing.
For 2 dozen cookies, it is about 8.5 calories per cookie, .03g fat, .83g carb and 1.04g protein.
For 36 really small ones, it is about 5.7 calories per cookie, .019g fat, .55g carb and .69g protein.

 

I actually ended up using rum extract instead of almond which wasn’t the best idea.. Since I realized later that rum extract has corn syrup in it. *owie* Also, I sprinkled the unsweetened cocoa mixture with stevia over the top instead of cinnamon. 🙂

And, I accidentally mixed everything together initially instead of just whipping the egg whites first then adding everything. It took quite a while to get it stiff enough to drop onto the cookie sheet, but finally did and I have to say… It’s not too shabby! For a diet cookie that’s only 8.5 calories that is. 🙂 Since I hadn’t eaten all my protein, I ended up having 5 of them I think. Or maybe 6. And saved the rest for my kids for snacks. (my son had one today and said ‘i like it!’, which was a lil surprising since it’s not the typical cookie. 🙂 )

I think next time, I’d like to make some kind of strawberry sauce to drizzle liberally over the top. I really think it would make a big difference. Be something kinda like a strawberry shortcake. 🙂 HCG-Style.

After my cookies, I remembered I didn’t eat my veggies *wrinkled nose* so quickly got some raw broccoli and spritzed some ranch from my handy-dandy spritzer over the top. I also put a bit of horseradish mustard to dip them in. Next time, I’ll have to figure something out. For some reason, eating raw broccoli isn’t as good as it used to be.

It was too late to have a fruit by then, so I skipped it for the night and went to bed late.. again.

I know I’m going to get this going to bed at a decent time down someday. Hopefully soon!

So that was my day! With a loss of .6.

❤ happy

 

VLCD Day 11 – Gahh.. Cravings

Day 12.. And it seems like the nausea hasn’t gone away completely. Right now, I’m feeling great, but then it seems like right around noonish, I get to where I can barely fix and eat something to eat without feeling as if I might throw up.. And it lasts for the rest of the afternoon/evening. I really have no desire to eat anything and kinda have to force myself to do it.

But, I kind of think it’s because for one, I believe it’s that time of the month and two, I REALLY stink at getting to bed at a decent time. If I got at least 7 hours of sleep, it’s very likely I’d feel much better.

So, goal of the day! Get to bed at 10:30pm. 🙂

Yesterday went okay… Nauseous, but stuck with the diet as best as I could.

Breakfast-

Green Tea with Stevia (getting a diff stevia today, hopefully.. The one I have actually contains an ingredient I guess I’m not supposed to have on the diet.)

Lunch-

Fish-Taco-Salad

I really had a difficult time eating this for some reason. Fish and nausea does NOT go well together. lol So I pretty much choked it down, knowing I didn’t have any other hamburger meat to use in it’s place and would have to eat it sometime that day.

Midday Snack-

Baked apple dessert

It sounded the best out of everything that day.. But I ended up putting too much cinnamon in it this time. One of these days I’ll get it figured out! 🙂 I poured my tablespoon of milk over the top, thinking it might taste something like melted ice cream in apple cobbler. It seemed to help a bit, but you just can’t beat ice cream. 🙂

Dinner-

Chicken-Pizza-Craving-Cruncher

Keeping this one handy. I was craving comfort foods like pizza and spagetti yesterday pretty bad… So for dinner, I cooked some chopped up chicken in my mini-wok with onion, black pepper, sea salt and some water until the water was all gone. Then I chopped up a fresh tomato and mixed the two in a bowl. I have to say… After taking one bite, my craving was satisfied. My guess is the tomato and salty chicken acted somewhat like what pizza and spaghetti would… for comfort anyways.

Evening Snack-

Orange

So that’s my menu for yesterday. 🙂 …  I also drank 100oz of water.

Today, I go grocery shopping and I’m SO not looking forward to it. My husband offered to take me to Applebees as a reward for being so good on the diet, but I finally decided last night… I couldn’t justify spending the money on Applebees for something I could easily make at home, since I’m not allowed to have much of anything on the diet, it’d have to be rather simple foods.. And I could probably buy several raw steaks to cook at home for the price of one meal at a restaraunt. SO! I mentioned maybe stopping by Jack in the Box and getting some grilled chicken tenders instead.. That would be somewhat of a reward. 🙂 That way, all of us could eat something for an affordable price and not spend too much on something that may very well make me gain the next day.. I’m crossing my fingers here. But I sure would LOVE some french fries or something with cheese in it! 🙂 Will just have to settle with chicken tenders.

ANYWAYS, back to yesterday. I lost 1 lb! Yay! Back up to 1 lb. 🙂 Feels good. I’m really hoping once I change stevia, it’ll help. Also, someone on the forums told me about dandelion tea helping also.. So I’m going to try to drink that in the evenings.

Hope everyone’s having a great weekend!

❤ happy

P.S. I also wanted to add that I have been adding a bit more protein to my dinners for the past two nights and it seemed to help my nausea. Short term helping, but it did help me get it down. 🙂 Go figure. Could also be that those two nights I had just plain ole chicken with a raw veggie.

VLCD 10- Water weight?

SO… Yesterday went fairly well despite me feeling really quite nauseous again and having some stomach cramps. Might be that dreaded time of the month.

I changed things up a bit. I probably wont do it again for a while, but I think it may of helped me budge a bit on the scales.

Morning-

Green Tea with Stevia

Lunch-

I was feeling pretty nauseous around this time and really didn’t want to eat anything.. But forced myself to eat a very simple loaf of hamburger meat and half of a cucumber.. sprinkled with a bit of seasalt. Even though I didn’t use much salt, it still tasted like too much.

3.5 oz lean hamburger

sea salt

black pepper

garlic powder

chopped onion

I baked it in the oven on 350 for about 20 minutes I think.. Or could’ve been 30. 🙂

That seemed to really settle on my stomach due to it’s low-ingredient content.. But since I still wasn’t feeling good, I skipped my midday snack of an apple.

Dinner-

Again, I really wasn’t feeling like eating… But went ahead and cooked some chicken in a skillet, using water to keep from sticking. I also added more meat to this meal because I knew I wasn’t going to reach my calorie-count by a longshot. I ended up using 150 grams of chicken.

150 grams chicken breast

chopped garlic

sliced onion

garlic powder

black pepper

seasalt

1 orange

I chopped up the chicken and sauteed, adding chopped garlic, onion & seasonings. I then sliced an orange in half and chopped up half of it (without the peel) and added it… Squeezing a bit of juice over the meat. (I think next time, I’ll probably just wait to add the oranges.. Seems like the flavor was cooked out of them pretty quick)

After cooking thoroughly, I tore up some romaine green lettuce and put the chicken over the top… Adding the rest of the orange, chopped up without the peel with it.

It was exactly what I needed for my stomach.. And got in all my remaining foods in one meal. I ended up still getting way below my 500… Around 382 calories. But I simply couldn’t force myself to eat anymore with how I was feeling.

I also only ended up getting about 70 oz of water in as opposed to my usual 103.

Woke up to a 1.4 loss! But, that could be water weight since I didn’t drink quite as much yesterday. 🙂 Either way, it was still nice to see.

Wellp… I’m off to get the dishwasher started! Stay encouraged everyone. I know it’s really hard sometimes… Especially when your not feeling well, but just try to remember… The efforts your making towards your weight loss (hcg or through other methods) will last FAR longer then the flu.

The thing I like about this diet is… I was addicted to food before. If I even THOUGHT about food, I went and grabbed something to munch on. And if I didn’t, it’d be on my mind nearly constantly till I finally gave in. For some reason, hcg keeps me from doing that. I’m strict on myself.. And don’t really want to cheat (other then the stone ground mustard, which I’ll avoid from now on). This protocol seems like it’s teaching me how to eat portion-sizes & also better choices for meals. I don’t have as many options, so I’m learning how to make things work without fattening additives.

Okay.. NOW I’m off to start my dishwasher! heh.. 🙂

[<3] happy

VLCD Day 8- The Bewitching Hour..

Yep! 7:00 has GOT to be the bewitching hour.. That’s all there is to it!

I ate entirely too late last night, and I think that’s part of why I only lost .8 of a lb. Oh well, it’s still .8 of a lb! And I’m nearing my 240 marker. 🙂 Crossing my fingers to hit it around Thursday. This will be my average weight for last year. Once I get below that, I think it’ll start feeling more of an accomplishment.. Melting off the weight that I haven’t seen for several years.

This morning I weighed in at 243.4… That’s 13.6 lbs less then one week ago on Tuesday.

What I had (I decided long blog posts probably wind ya all down on your busy days, so have been trying to cut it down. 🙂 Plus, it seems like my own life has been getting busier here lately:

Morning-

*Green Tea with Stevia

Lunch-

*Baked Tilapia with Spinach Leaves

Midday Snack-

*Apple

Dinner-

*Meatballs with Onion Rings *An HCG recipe! But waaaay tooo late at night*

http://www.diyhcg.com/phase-2-recipes

The meatballs I did how I usually do, but this time I added a bit of Ground Mustard Seed to it.. (which is actually in mustard form but has less then 1 gram of sugar in it. I’ll be taking whether this slowed my losses into consideration also)

The onion rings weren’t too shabby, but I had to use melba toast… And I think I didn’t season it well enough. I didn’t have cayenne for one, and was going very lightly on the seasoning. Plus, I didn’t grind the bread up enough. I think it could be really good if you got everything just right. 🙂 It wasn’t something I’d probably do till I had a breadstick and some other form of grinding breadcrumbs other then the bottom of a glass against the bread in a ziplock baggy. 😀

I was pretty nauseous.. *for the first time since starting the diet* and I really didn’t want to eat anything all day. Dinner, I actually had to FORCE myself to fix the onion rings and eat them along with the orange… Which ended up putting it off until later in the evening.

I stayed up too late AGAIN. And with my .8 lb loss the next morning, I think I’m going to try and make sure I change a few things today.

a) Make sure and get all my water and food drank/eaten before 7pm.

b) Try to go to sleep by 10:30… The latest 11pm.

c) Add a little light exercise into my daily routine. I know they don’t recommend very much, but I think if I add some, maybe it’ll help.

Wellp…Keep it up!! Whatever your goals are, take comfort in the fact your making a difference in your life.. And your on the path to finding your own happy.

❤ happy