FINALLY IN PHASE 3!
Well, yes, it's true, yesterday was my first day of phase 3, and it went pretty well! For those of you who haven't read up on the protocol, phase 3 is where we can eat whatever we want as long as it has no starch or sugar in it. That means a lot more variety of foods that I haven't eaten for the last 6 weeks!
To back up a bit (again) since my last post--I was going through a stall and then finally it broke. My last count was, 27.5 pounds down! When I woke up this morning I was so afraid I was going to have to do a steak day already (required if your weight goes 2 pounds above your last injected weight)--but I had stayed the same! Ya! That was in spite of eating almost a whole pack of cheese throughout the day yesterday!
I don't know if I'll have as much luck tomorrow--today, I was invited to a free dinner at Golden Coral, as long as I sat through a seminar on estate planning. I was dreaming of Golden Coral chicken and steak for a week, as I finished up phase 2. Yeah, I know it isn't organic, and maybe some of the stuff had that horrid MSG--but what can you do? The funny thing was, I felt like I was a thirsty person who had been stranded in the desert (not dessert), and was finally getting a drink of water. And yet, when the meal was done, and I was stuffed full of chicken, steak, veggies and fruit--I still wasn't REALLY satisfied. Sometimes it really is that emotional hunger you're trying to fill, and even a fine dinner won't satisfy it.
Now my tummy is paying for my over-indulgence, and I'm wondering what the scale will say tomorrow. Of course, I won't actually mind doing a steak day now, because I'm so stuffed I don't really want to eat until dinner anyway! This diet really is a lot of fun, even if it doesn't sound like it!
Then after dinner, I drove over to Jungle Jim's, a huge grocery with a health food store in the middle of it, to stock up on organic foods and phase 2-friendly items, like stevia and whatnot. I even got some coconut to try making phase 3 recipes with. I want to try a lot of new tastes and sensations now, it's kind of funny--somehow, the fact that I wasn't allowed to eat a big variety of foods for 6 weeks makes me want to eat things very different from what I'm used to. I even ate celery dipped in organic mustard the other night--and I tend to not even like mustard that well. But for some reason, now it tastes pretty good!
Also it really is going to be interesting trying to keep my weight lower than two pounds up and higher than two pounds down. It's something I've never tried before, although for the last few years my weight seemed to fluctuate up and down the same 5-8 pounds or so. I guess I was so used to flying lower and lower in my weight, it really seems a change in gears now to just stay the same.
But, overall, when I think of how my life is changing because of this protocol, I realized that it somehow has given me a new sense of empowerment. I feel like this is the key I've been searching for so long, and no matter what others may say, this is the key for me. Thank God, I found this!
Until next time, Merry
To back up a bit (again) since my last post--I was going through a stall and then finally it broke. My last count was, 27.5 pounds down! When I woke up this morning I was so afraid I was going to have to do a steak day already (required if your weight goes 2 pounds above your last injected weight)--but I had stayed the same! Ya! That was in spite of eating almost a whole pack of cheese throughout the day yesterday!
I don't know if I'll have as much luck tomorrow--today, I was invited to a free dinner at Golden Coral, as long as I sat through a seminar on estate planning. I was dreaming of Golden Coral chicken and steak for a week, as I finished up phase 2. Yeah, I know it isn't organic, and maybe some of the stuff had that horrid MSG--but what can you do? The funny thing was, I felt like I was a thirsty person who had been stranded in the desert (not dessert), and was finally getting a drink of water. And yet, when the meal was done, and I was stuffed full of chicken, steak, veggies and fruit--I still wasn't REALLY satisfied. Sometimes it really is that emotional hunger you're trying to fill, and even a fine dinner won't satisfy it.
Now my tummy is paying for my over-indulgence, and I'm wondering what the scale will say tomorrow. Of course, I won't actually mind doing a steak day now, because I'm so stuffed I don't really want to eat until dinner anyway! This diet really is a lot of fun, even if it doesn't sound like it!
Then after dinner, I drove over to Jungle Jim's, a huge grocery with a health food store in the middle of it, to stock up on organic foods and phase 2-friendly items, like stevia and whatnot. I even got some coconut to try making phase 3 recipes with. I want to try a lot of new tastes and sensations now, it's kind of funny--somehow, the fact that I wasn't allowed to eat a big variety of foods for 6 weeks makes me want to eat things very different from what I'm used to. I even ate celery dipped in organic mustard the other night--and I tend to not even like mustard that well. But for some reason, now it tastes pretty good!
Also it really is going to be interesting trying to keep my weight lower than two pounds up and higher than two pounds down. It's something I've never tried before, although for the last few years my weight seemed to fluctuate up and down the same 5-8 pounds or so. I guess I was so used to flying lower and lower in my weight, it really seems a change in gears now to just stay the same.
But, overall, when I think of how my life is changing because of this protocol, I realized that it somehow has given me a new sense of empowerment. I feel like this is the key I've been searching for so long, and no matter what others may say, this is the key for me. Thank God, I found this!
Until next time, Merry
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