Day 4

It's 9 AM and I'm suffering.  I'm soooo hungry!!


It's a real mental battle to not eat right now.  I'm making steady progress with weight loss.  I've lost 3.2 lbs since I started Monday.  That's really fast but since at first it's supposed to be water weight I'm not sure if I should be concerned.


Maybe I should go chug a glass of water to fill up?


I've been reading about 1,200 calorie diets.  Last night I decided to change my upper limit to 1,250 to guarantee that I eat more than 1,200 calories per day.  Going under that is not healthy from what I've read.  Or not recommended.  The past few days (except yesterday) I ate less than 1,200.  Yesterday I ate 1,237.  Better.


I'm seriously considering the Seattle Sutton meal plans.  Thing is it's really too expensive and Lacey has taken over my freezer so if it's frozen food I won't have any place to put it all.  I may have to insist that she take some food back home and start bringing daily lunches instead of stocking my freezer with lunches for Penelope.


Doing it for just one week might help?  I'm tired of being hungry!


Thing is, if I can just stick to this my stomach will shrink and feel satisfied with less.  It's not a comfortable thing getting to that point.  I've done it before and didn't like it then either.  But it can be done!


I will splurge now and then.  Like tomorrow is donut day.  Every Friday is donut day at work.  I'm going to have my donut and I'm not going to track it.  I'll make sure the rest of the day is in the 1,250 realm and have the donut as an extra.  One donut will not derail my diet and it'll be nice to not be hungry tomorrow AM. 


I just have to hang on until then! 

Day Three

So far so good! 




I've basically cut one meal out of my daily routine (breakfast).  Easier to split 1,200 calories between 2 meals with a chance of feeling sated than between 3. 




Since Monday I've been eating just under 1,200 calories/day.  I've been losing weight steadily.  I know, I know, it's water weight that comes off first, but whatever it is, I'll take it!  I'm making better progress with this than other diets in the past while. 


I've also cut back on Diet Mountain Dew.  I've been doing that for a couple weeks now.  I have one 12 oz can in the morning and that's it.  I've been worried about how it could be tricking my body into making extra insulin.  I saw an article on that a while back and it has worried me since.  I need to stop having it daily but haven't gotten there yet.  I'm cutting a lot out of my life right now so I need time to adjust before I do more.


Eating out is off the table.


Cake, candy, pie, etc. are off the table.


Being sated is off the table.


No more breakfast. 


What I get in the meantime is this...


I'm losing weight.


My energy is low so I'm taking it pretty easy at the moment tho today I haven't felt weak at all like I did the past couple days.


I'm reminding myself that I'm tough enough to do this.  I'm tough enough to stay hungry most of the time, and tired and woozy sometimes, and keep doing this until I get this weight off. 


FUCK YEAH!!!  I ROCK!!!

Day One

I'm suffering a bit right now and can't even have wine to make myself feel better.  Well I could but it would use up too many of my few remaining available calories.

I decided to get serious and cut my calories to around 1,200/day.  I really hope this works!

I got this calorie level from Seattle Sutton's diet plan.  They have a 1,200 calorie/day plan.  Wish I could afford it!  Looks pretty tasty!  But it would cost me over $500/month for food and I just can't do that.

So I'm winging it on my own.  I have my little calorie counter app.  I have my treadmill, which I did despite feeling all tired and out of caloric energy.  Now if I can just maintain self control?  That's never been my strong point.

Since I'm feeling a bit faint (I'm being a drama queen - I just feel hungry but it's my blog and I can say what I want to) so I'm going to close this entry.

Yay to me!  Day one is almost over!

Know what I'm doing?  Watching baking on Food Network.  Yeah...I have a sickness.

Feel sorry for me...

it's tragic isn't it?