Day 5: Sleepy...

DAY 5: BEEF & TOMATOS

So today was beef and tomato day and because I can't stand to eat tomato's raw I read on cabbage soup diet webpage http://www.cabbage-soup-diet.com/cabbage-soup-diet-faqs/ that you can substitute tomato's for watermelon and because I LOVE watermelon that's what I did. I've been looking through forums, posts etc today to get motivation about sticking with this crazy diet and I came across a post saying to not eat fruit in the last 3 days of the diet (posted by the women that runs the CBD website) So I'm a little confused right now, and am really hoping I'm not making a big mistake, lets hope I don't see a gain in the morning! I've emailed her and am anxious to get a response back!

This diet really does put your body through all kinds of everything!  Day 1 I was tired, Day 2 I was kinda tired, Day 3 I was tired but getting better, Day 4 I was great, and today I woke up with lots of energy but right after I ate my first piece of beef, I got soooo full, sooo bloated, and extremely tired! I've been tired the remainder of the day. I was so ready to go work out for half an hour (you should only exercise 30min a day max on this diet), but I could barely get myself off the couch to go to the washroom (all the 500 times I went today lol!)  But before I had that yummy beef, I had a bowl of watermelon for breakfast and it was sooo yummy and definitely filling! I feel that Watermelon has been my go to food today, as the cravings for sugar has been pretty bad and the sweetness of the watermelon has definitely helped. 


I have to say it was REALLY nice to eat a piece of beef today!! I seasoned it with pepper, garlic powder, paprika, no salt chicken seasoning and a little veggie seasoning, and cooked it with sliced onion, with a little olive oil zero calorie spray. I sauteed some red pepper (also a suggestion to substitute tomato's with) and overall it turned out well, just not used to using so much spices and no sauces or gravy for the beef. I bought 15oz of beef (am allowed up to 20oz)  the thin cut strips of center loin, there's a fancy name for it but I forget now.

The diet's plan says for Day 5 to especially drink 6-8 glasses of water to wash the uric acid out of your body and because I only drank 2 glasses yesterday I've been forcing myself to drink lots today!!

Challenges of the Day

*the cravings for sugar have been pretty bad today, cravings for any food have been bad!

*I've been super bloated ever since I ate my first slice of beef today

*I only had 1 bowl of soup today, I should be eating more of it, but its getting harder and harder

Food Recap

1 bowl of cut up watermelon- 9:00am

1 slice of beef with sauteed onion/red pepper-11:30am

1 bowl of cabbage soup-1:30pm

1 bowl of watermelon-1:30pm

1 slice of beef with sauteed onion/red pepper-4:00pm

1/2 bowl of watermelon-4:15pm
1 slice of beef, bowl of watermelon 7:45pm

Water Intake=6
P#= 11

W.I (Morning of Friday June 22, 2012)

loss of: 0.8

Total loss of  = 5.8 pounds


*I have to say that I find it interesting that I've lost exactly 0.8 pounds for a couple of days throughout the diet.  I think I would have lost more weight if I had more soup but I just couldn't stomach eating more than one bowl when I could have BEEF!  So tomorrow I'm going to try to eat more soup :( and see if there is an increase of weigh loss by Saturday morning!  Stay tuned for tomorrows weigh in!