17 Day Diet - Day 3

I am starting over on Tuesday!

This is a lot harder than I thought.  My life is chaotic!

17 Day Diet - Day 2

Got to sleep a little later this morning because I have to work into the evening tonight.  Cecil and Sulu's time clocks get messed up when I do that, but what do they have to do all day any way - SLEEP!  Right....so suck it up buttercups.

My day once again starts with warm water and lemon.  Is hard to get out of the habit of just having a couple cups of coffee in the morning first thing.  Those are my "wake me up" things that have to get delayed a little bit. The day yesterday ended terribly as far as my intake goes, but I can't dwell, just start over again with the plan.  I gained two pounds yesterday.  I blame you JAMESON!  DAMN!

My late breakfast consisted of two hard boiled eggs and yogurt.  And of course my green tea.

Lunch will be a salad with an egg and LOTS of green veggies.

This traveling on the road and trying to eat healthy is impossible.  Greens at a drive up are not very good and I just end up not getting anything.  I can't eat a meat stick cause it isn't lean protein.  I could eat a grilled chicken and a side salad, but I can't eat that in the car.  Oh My Word!

17 Day Diet - Day 1

Day 1 of the Accelerate Cycle of the 17 Day Diet began with my cup of hot water with a half of lemon squeezed into it.  This served two purposes this morning - digestion as the diet suggests, but also I have a terrible sore throat (I hope I haven't caught the strep bug that is going around).  It helped to soften up the pain a little this morning so hopefully that will catch it.

The next step was stepping on my scale for my first weigh in.  YIKES!  While I thought it was going to be worse, I really want to knock about some digits off that number.

My breakfast consisted of this:

I am an egg girl, but scrambled egg white - not my favorite.  I am scouring the book as I make myself eat these for a substitute for these.  If I can add cheese and some butter they would be so much better.  But alas.  I ate them.

This blog will serve as my food diary, my bitch blog when I want cheesy potatoes, and my accountability scale.  I know my readers (mostly friends cause who really wants to know what I am doing anyway) will say - DUDE PUT DOWN THE CHIPS AND STEP AWAY! - when I need them to.

My snack

Apparently Chick, Monkey and Flower are very excited that I get yogurt for my morning snack.

Ran home to let big boy outside and put together my salad.

GREENS, TUNA, I threw in some more veggies like brocoli and carrots and 2 Tbs of White balsamic vinegar mixed with 1 Tbs of Olive Oil.  Oh yeah and don't forget my green tea.  It tasted pretty good and I am not super full, but satisfied.  The portion control is difficult to get used to.....but I must!

Going out after work with peeps from the office, I will cheat with ONE drink and then back to the grind.  That didn't take long huh?  OH WELL!

The group of us went out to Mad Meatball and 3 Jameson rocks and two pizza slices later I have to try again tomorrow.  So day 2 will be a redo.  NO more drink......gonna take some cold medicine and hit the hay.

17 Day Diet - Day 0

Tomorrow starts Day 1 of the 17 day diet.  I know many people that have been very successful on this diet:  Friends from NW Iowa and a couple people at work.  This diet makes sense.  And the important thing is that this is not just a diet - it is a way of eating that keeps your metabolism going.  A change in how I eat.  The first 17 days are greens, lean proteins (chicken and fish), probiotic yogurts, no fruit after 2:00 pm, green tea and LOTS of water.  Paying attention to portion sizes and following the plan.

To read more about it, check out this website:  17 Day Diet

So my plan is to blog every day about this journey.

Why am I doing this?  Health.  It isn't about shame about my body or wanting to be a twig.  It's about my achy ankles, my tired feet, and the crazy blood tests that I have to have every 6 months because I am teetering on the edge of being diabetic along with high cholesterol.  It is important for me to have a goal of not having to take a handful of pills every morning.  It is time!  I am tired!  Sick and tired!

I look at this as one day at a time.  I am not naive enough to think that I won't have slip ups.  But it is a journey not an event.

So here we go!  I won't write how much I weigh, but I will write about how much I lose and how many sizes I drop in this process.

Let this journey begin.