Here are a few pics to give you an idea of just how much I love sugar! lol
From our Easter clearance splurge!
More Easter goodies
And... even more. See I was NOT kidding! lol and all of this was bought in one trip to the store!
My guilty pleasure has always been gummy candy! Anthony always used to buy me gummy worms and gummy bears when I came over to his house :] these were also a favorite of mine.
And last but not least... my other guilty pleasure: CHEESE! I love cheese, can not get enough of it, I used to eat it in chunks literally like 5 oz in a sitting. Can you believe 1 oz has over 100 calories in it! Yikes! I am limiting my cheese to 2 TBS a day now.
Everyday for lunch I am eating a salad that contains: 1.5 cups of iceberg lettuce, 1 TBS of chopped green bell pepper, 1 TBS of chopped red onion, 1/4 a medium tomato, 1 TBS of shredded cheddar cheese, either 1/2 a boiled egg or 1 piece of fat free turkey lunch meat, and one salad pepper. Topped with 2 TBS of fat free or light dressing. I currently have fat free ranch, french, and Italian as well as light Cesar to chose from so I don't get bored. Along with that I eat about 1/3 a cup of vanilla yogurt and have ice water for a drink.
My thoughts: At first my main concern was that the serving suggestion of 2 TBS of dressing would not be enough to dress my salad. After all the salad is what I would call a medium size. I was wrong. It was actually the perfect amount! Score! I am so glad that worked out. As for the flavor, the fat free dressings are not to bad, they are not fantastic but they are pretty good and definitely tolerable. I did not however like the salad peppers I bought, I think this may be because the brand though, next time I will try another kind. So the big question... did it fill me up? Yes it did but I won't lie... I was hungry again by 2 PM and I don't eat dinner until around 4:30 - 6:30 PM so that will take some getting used to. But all in all it was okay and I am pretty sure if I don't get lazy, or too broke to afford this, I will be able to stick with it!
For dinner I will be having the same salad with a different dressing along with a carb from Anthony's dinner. Monday night he had hot dogs so I had one hot dog and one bun with no toppings. And I had 6 oz of apple juice for a drink. I think I may have gone over my calories with the hot dog because it was about 220 alone and really I think I needed it to be more like 150 but I think that is okay because I am still cutting WAY back in the calories even if I went over my goal a little bit. I finished the salad and the hot dog and drank about 4 oz of the juice and was over that.
My thoughts: It made me full but not full full. Before, I would eat until I was full and felt good. This meal did not get me there. It did however make me full to the point where I was no longer hungry. So I think I have something good going here. I think before I was more than likely over eating causing me to gain weight and/or just not lose weight. Had I not been on a diet I would have definitely eaten more food than I did last night and I would have snacked while I cooked to take the edge off my hunger, I would have had a cookie or two or some candy or beef jerky or ever bits and pieces here and there of what I was cooking. That is now a thing of the past, I know I have to practice self control now when it comes to these things and it is going to be hard but I believe I can do it.
Another random thought: I did wake up this morning hungry. I think I may try and integrate breakfast into my diet somehow as well. I know breakfast is good for you and if I can get it to where the calories are right I would definitely not mind having some breakfast at around 6:30 AM every morning. I will have to look at the calorie counter and try and figure out what I can do for that.
I have not weighed myself since I went to the doctors on Friday so I am unsure of any progress, but I am assuming there is none because it has only been 3 days so far on this diet.
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