Last night was busy! I met with my accountant to get my taxes done, and then I went shopping for 3 hours. I have never been grocery shopping that long in my life. I spent $239 and still didn’t get everything on the list I made (I went through the 2-week Phase 1 list in the book and wrote out each unique item to purchase). I got home dead tired. I basically put all the groceries away, sat in my easy-chair for about 30 minutes and then went to bed for the night (take note how I didn’t mention eating dinner – bad move).
So, today is the first day of the South Beach Diet for me. My original plan of eating for the day looked something like this:
- B. omlette (w/green onion & green pepper), 2 Canadian back bacon, and a cup of V8
- S. 1 cheese string
- L.Salad (romaine lettuce, tomato, green pepper, red pepper, cucumber, olive oil, balsamic vinegar,salt, and fresh cracked pepper) with 1 can tuna (drained)
- S. 1/2 cup low fat (1%) cottage cheese and 10 or so grape tomatoes, and 1 wedge light laughing cow cheese
- D.undecided
However, remember that part about me not eating supper the previous night? Well it came back to haunt me. By 10am I was absolutely ravenous. I ate my mid morning snack and was getting dizzy and had a headache that wouldn’t go away. So I broke down and went and bought a pack of sesame snaps and ate them – they helped take most of the edge off, though I still felt hungry and had a headache.
By the afternoon snack I was going batty again, and went and bought a bag of pistachios. I counted out 30 of them (the allowed serving size) and ate them. Again it helped, but I still had a headache and was feeling a touch light-headed.
I obviously survived, but man this was not fun at all.
Maybe it will get better tomorrow.