DAY 2-Sick of Veggies!

DAY 2: Veggies & Cabbage Soup ONLY!!-Monday June 18

Looking over the meal plan I knew in advance that Day 2 would probably be the most challenging day as I'm a really picky eater and I usually don't eat veggies without a dip or some sort of sauce or oil (usually steam broccoli and cook with garlic and olive oil, and I always dip carrots, cucumbers etc in ranch dip).

and I was right......

So I woke up this morning with the same headache I had last night (keep in mind I had that headache yesterday from 5-10pm).  I didn't take any Advil or anything because I wanted it to pass naturally, ya right!

When I woke up to the smell of coffee I figured I had to get some caffeine and would try a cup of black coffee. WELL....I can now say that black coffee is more gross than I thought it was (it's been years since I drank it, and that's only because I had the stomach flu and my grandma told me to drink coffee black to rid it, and it worked!). On a positive note, after drinking less than half a cup of that coffee my headache went away, and I felt really full.

I ate less then half a bowl of soup and one cup of steamed broccoli and I was STUFFED! I couldn't believe it!! I also want to mention that I decided to blend my soup this morning to change up the flavor and texture and it worked out well!  I think eating the soup blended is a bit easier, and saves me from picking around those chunky tomato's!
 

So I was at the mall with my bf today and was having such crazy cravings that I thought buying a pack of strawberry sugar free gum would help (flavor wise) and after consecutively chewing about 4 pieces one after the other (mmmm strawberry flavor)...I saw on the package that each piece of gum was 4 calories and well.......I stopped chewing.

This is soo yummy!!! lol

 I didn't end up eating anything after that until 4:15pm but I was starving by then (doesn't help walking through a grocery store and knowing you can't eat practically ANYTHING in there!) so I ate a full bowl of soup.  I actually forced myself to eat the whole bowl even though I was getting full, because I didn't want to have to eat more soup later...starting to get sick of it real fast!

My Dinner!

For dinner I ate a bowl of cabbage soup and baby carrots since the potato wasn't ready yet. About 45 minutes later it was chow time!!!! (although I was already pretty full from the soup). I have to say it was REALLY nice eating that potato!! I put green onion and lemon citrus seasoning on it!! It was better than I thought it would be, but would've been wayyyy better with some sour cream Mmmm

Challenges of the Day

• Only eating Veggies....they are so boring, so bland, and it sucks!  Have I mentioned I'm hungry!
• Cravings!! They have been pretty bad today and I've mostly craved sugary foods
• It's getting harder and harder to eat that soup, I'm definitely getting sick of it fast..the taste and smell are starting to get to me. 
• I only have about 2 bowls a day when I should really be having 2-4 or more

# of P's

Thanks to Sally for a fun suggestion to note how many times I go Pee everyday! As with this diet you pee A LOT lol so I might as well document that as well!!

# of P's today= 9

Food Recap

Less than half cup of Black Coffee -9:30am

Less than half a bowl of Cabbage Soup - 11:30am

1 Cup of Broccoli -11:30am

1 bowl of Cabbage Soup -4:30pm

1/2 Cup of Carrots -4:30pm

Half large baked potato w/green onion and seasoning 5:30pm
1 Cup frozen mixed veggies cooked -9:00pm

Total Water Intake=8 glasses
* I ate a pear at 11:30pm (Couldn't handle anymore veggies!)

TODAY'S FOOD PHOTOS 

My breakfast/lunch & that's how much I ate before I got full!! Surprisingly not much!

The picture above this one is the Broccoli I had for lunch (it won't let me separate both pics!)
With some green onion & lemon citrus seasoning the baked potato didn't taste too bad!

The new seasoning I bought today! Put it on my baked potatoe

*Second WI (Morning of DAY 3-June 19, 2012)

Loss of 1.8 pounds 

So far..overall loss of 3.2 pounds in 2 days!