Ok, so here I was thinking "Yay second week I can have some carbs!" The diet allows for 200 extra calories so that you can have some veggies and/or fruit. This means I have been able to have taco salad, without the shell, for the past two nights. Fantastic!!! Get this...trying to fit in 700 calories is HARD. How lame is that? For breakfast I've been having a protein shake and a Babybel Light cheese. Then for lunch I have a Laughing Cow Light French Onion Cheese wedge and some deli lunch meat. Sometimes I have cottage cheese, sometimes I have string cheese. This fills me up. The when I get home, I have to make sure I have the rest of my calories. Usually this means MORE lunch meat. I have discovered that unless I have some ground beef or something from the "slightly higher in calories" meat group, I end up having to drink another shake. I'm still trying to get in the flow. Sometimes I think I'd like to go back to 500 because it was easier! Shock!! But I am going to try to figure out what the easiest combo of things are to put together each day so that I have enough calories. I can't even begin to fathom what I was eating before this as my daily calorie intake.
I get really tired of adding calories. I wish I could do it all in my head, but I have always been rather math challenged. My dependence on a calculator is ridiculous. Having to add each and every item I eat is kind of annoying. My weight journal has all sorts of scribbles on it from where I've had to add manually. I think that it's because of the new items I added,so this means I should get used to it soon I hope!
Mom put some pictures up on the internet of me at my 30th birthday. I look huge in those pictures, and adding to the roundness is the fact that I'm wearing a giant white shirt and a bright green hat (an outfit forced upon me by my sister), so I couldn't even camouflage my fat face with my hair. I made her take them down. In a few months when I've lost more weight I will hopefully be more inclined to be the subject in a photo. But until then...no thank you.
I have been pretty sleepy every night about 7. I wonder if that's when my energy is all eaten up. Probably, as I am usually still trying to figure out dinner around that time. Dang math.
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Well, looks like you're doing just fine with all of this. I'm sure it'll get easier as you continue on. I'm so proud of you and the steps you're taking. It's a real inspiration. Guess I should get off my duff and get something figured out.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see you're progress.