Morning.
Day 2. So I feel like I need to clarify the purpose of this new diet, for me. I am constantly skipping meals, panicking mid-day and eating disgusting things. Then by the time I get to dinner I'm so hungry I eat everything! That is not the recipe to a healthy lifestyle. With Herbalife I am guaranteed two "meals" a day that I don't have to think about. Even if I'm not hungry, I make the shake. Then when it comes time for my one meal it won't seem like I have to eat everything in sight. I am also excited about saving money on going out to eat. This morning I made a coffee shake again, but I didn it a little bit differently this time. I started by putting about 8 ice cubes in the blender, then my two scoops, a tiny bit of natural sugar, and about half a cup of coffee. I normally drink more coffee than that but with the energizers in the powder and the pills it's probably a good thing to slow down a little bit. Today at lunch I think I'm going to reheat some leftover paprika chicken (YUM!) and then do a shake for dinner, see what that does for me. I'm also excited because I'm going grocery shopping to pick up some frozen fruit. I LOVE FROZEN BLUEBERRIES!!!! I hope cost-u-less still has those monster bags for $5... I wonder what a vege vanilla shake would taste like...
Lunch.
I <3 paprika chicken. I was a tad hungry throughout the morning, but not enough to tempt me to do anything other than eat the sample pizza bite at cost-u-less… I resisted the sparkling lemonade and cheese platter though! I think using just a tiny bit of coffee worked for my shake this morning. I didn't feel over energized or cracked out, I wasn't very hungry, and no headaches from not drinking my normal mug of coffee. I was also able to cut out the 1/2 and 1/2 which I'm sure saved me a load of unneccessary calories. As planned I reheated some leftover paprika chicken for lunch. So as not to over eat I only took half a piece of chicken which ended up being a little less than half the size of my hand (which for those of you who know me know that is VERY tiny!). Then I put two scoops of cous cous and chick pea mix with the yogurt, YUM!!!!! Best meal ever, and great for leftovers. If anyone wants it let me know. Or maybe someday I'll post it on here because it is a definite crowd pleaser. A quick note on the late pills yesterday... I was pretty wide awake until around 11, but then I decided to go to sleep and I did. I've never had much trouble falling asleep. I did however wake up in the middle of the night which is strange (after having some very odd dreams) and I had trouble getting back to sleep for about an hour. Apparently this is normal for some people but it doesn't happen to me that often. It could be the pills, who knows. Maybe it's just the change in diet, I don't know! But, it's day 2 and I'm feeling alright, so I'll keep going. My goal, btw, is to stay consistent for two months and then I'l going to re-evaluate and alter as needed.
Evening.
I have to say that dinner is an absolute success! I took about 6 ice cubes, a cup of frozen blueberries (I <3 FROZEN BLUEBERRIES!!!), some cranberry juice, and a little bit of club soda, and my two scoops, and voila! My very own blueberry spritzer, but no rum. Can I add rum? Is that acceptable to the plan? I don't know! Maybe after a really tough day it's ok to throw a thimble or so in :) My ONLY problem tonight is that I think I did too many ice cubes, I ended up with a little bit that fell into the sink as I was pouring it into my cup, but not enough for me to be worried. I think today went really well. The full lunch worked pretty well, I mean who can turn down paprika chicken?! I only had one accident and that was when I gave in to the pizza bite sample at cost-u-less but that was more curiosity than caving in to a craving... I remembered to take the energizing pill earlier this afternoon so hopefully my sleeping pattern won't be so weird tonight. I'm ok with the weird dreams, they were actually pretty pleasantly entertaining, but I don't like being awake in the middle of the night.
