SLIMFAST: Day 4, Cory

WHAT I'VE LEARNED: 

• I need a bigger breakfast.  Whether it's the shake or the meal bar, I get really, really hungry by lunch time, even with an orange for a snack.  I'm gonna stick with the SLIMFAST diet as is, for the two week run, but I want to find something with a more substantial breakfast for whatever we do next.
• Blogging is a big help in resisting temptation.  When I think of cheating, I remember that if I do cheat, I have two choices:  Tell everyone of lapse on the blog OR Lie to Cappy and everyone else who follows the blog (OK, so 5 people, but I like our followers!  Plus, one day, multitudes! :) ).  And I don't wanna do either one.  What I mean is - with the blogging, cheating comes with an even bigger price than usual!  That helps.
• The exercising is helping a bit, with some insomnia issues I've had lately.
• Cappy is gonna do great, because she's too mean to give up!  Who woulda ever guessed this particular characteristic would come in handy for anything other than bar fights?  Go, Cappy!

MINI-REPORT:  This is gonna get repetitive, so basically, with very minor alterations, my diet and exercise today was the same as yesterday.  Happymaker . . . uhm . . . I sent a Happy Birthday IM to a friend!  I'm gonna have to do better on that part.  I WILL DO BETTER!

--Cory

SLIMFAST: Day 3, Cappy

Breakfast:  shake and oatmeal


Mid-morning snack:  I forgot to eat one! /o\  The morning just got away from me, and between a cup of green tea and a cup of coffee, I just didn't get hungry enough to be reminded to eat.  I know that's not good because I need to eat something every few hours to keep my blood sugar steady, so I'm going to do my best to not forget anymore.


Lunch:  shake and peanut butter sandwich, with whole wheat bread and low-fat peanut butter


Afternoon snack:  Banana


Supper: leftover chicken veggie stir fry with brown rice, 1 slimfast snack bar


Workout:  25 minutes with exercise dvd (should have done 30 minutes, but I'll do better tomorrow)


I did finally go grocery shopping this afternoon and bought enough provisions to hopefully last me a while.  The slimfast 100 calorie snack bars are TINY!  I think I'd be more satisfied eating 100 calories worth of fruit than these itty bitty little things, but at least now I know what they're like.


Energy levels were way better today than they have been all week, probably due to having finally gotten caught up on my sleep.


Did not feel really hungry or that I was depriving myself at any point during the day today.  Yayness!


Happymaker:  Ummm . . . I took a picture of myself with my computer's webcam to show my hair to a friend and didn't cringe from the horribleness of it, which is a huge deal for me, considering how much I hate having my picture taken.  Baby steps.


Cappy

SLIMFAST: Day 3, Cory

DAY AT WORK: OMG, I realize as I walk into the office, that I have forgotten my snack bar!

And today is a pizza lunch day at work! And there is going to be a birthday cake! And I have to resist eating pizza! Without my snack bar! And I brought my yogurt instead of a half sandwich, to go with my Slimfast shake for lunch.

At lunch, the pepperoni pizza tries to seduce me by whispering sweet-nothings in my ear, and the cake gets really bossy. But I tell them off, and hold my own. YES! I manage to give the birthday girl my best without munching down.

BACK HOME: In the evening, I again have chicken stir-fry, only this time with a potato instead of bread. I do my 30 minutes on the bike, and go see my counselor, where we discuss why I chat with party food.

HAPPYMAKER: Oh, Cappy – do I gotta do this? Does saying Happy Birthday to a co-worker count?

--Cory

SLIMFAST: Day 2, Cappy

Dear Diary,


Cory gets on my nerves so much, with her peppiness and snooty ways, who does she think she is, anyways?


Whups!  Wrong journal.  My bad.


Today was a much better day, in regards to outside forces trying to sabotage my good intentions.  I slept good last night, though I did wake in the middle of the night twice with leg cramps in both legs.  Very strange, especially considering I didn't even exercise yesterday.  


Breakfast was a shake and bowl of oatmeal.  I am having no problems with the breakfast part of this diet because my usual breakfast is a bowl of oatmeal and scrambled egg beaters, so not much difference, so far. Morning snack was again baby carrots with salsa, and lunch was a shake and peanut butter sandwich with two slices of whole wheat bread and reduced fat peanut butter.  The diet called for only one slice of bread and regular peanut butter, so I figure I'm evening things out.  I did adjust my diet log accordingly so that I can keep an accurate count of calories/fat consumed.


I left work about an hour early today and came home and took a nap--still trying to catch up on my lack of sleep from the Night That Would Never End.  I woke up starving because I had forgotten to eat my afternoon snack before falling asleep, so I munched on a banana while cooking supper, which was chicken veggie stir fry with brown rice.  YUM.


Have not exercised for today, but I've decided I'm not going to beat myself up over that right at first.  I'm going to cut myself some slack, and pat myself on the back for staying on this diet two days in a row without any urge to fall off.  If I can get myself to exercise at least three days this week, I will be pleased with myself.  Baby steps.


Happymaker for the day:  Making a present for a friend having a bad day.


Cappy

SLIMFAST: Day 2, Cory

Happy Groundhog Day! I understand Puxatony Phil predicted 6 more weeks of winter today, which works for me. More time to get in shape for real (as opposed to stationary) bike riding in the spring.

SLIMFAST SUMMARY: Not bad at all, my only complaint is that the "just a shake" breakfast, and tiny small orange mid-morning snack, is not enough to keep me from being really hungry by lunchtime. I eat my "half sandwich and shake" lunch, and again eat my mid-afternoon snack bar with the lunch - cause: HUNGRY! I do note that I'm happier with the half-sandwich and shake option, than the yogurt & shake option, so for next week I won't buy the yogurts. Overall, with the carrot sticks I can have at midafternoon, I do OK getting to dinner. Dinner's a sirloin hamburger patty, one piece of wheat bread, and some mixed vegetables.

EXERCISE SUMMARY: Exercise bike again - increased resistance and went for approx 30 minutes. I wasn't even sore this morning, so I figured I could up yesterday's effort.  Increasing the resistance made a huge difference, as far as making my heart pound.  I guess things that make your heart pound are . . . good for you?  Cappy? Anyone?

PRAYER OF THE DAY:  God grant me the willpower to accept the things I cannot eat, the courage to eat the things I can, and a stomach that won't know the difference.

--Cory

SLIMFAST: Day 1, Cappy

Morning:  There was no "waking up" because I never really officially fell asleep last night, due to too much coffee yesterday and insomnia.  Monday morning, FML.  I drink a shake, scramble up some egg substitute, and drink a cup of yummy green tea.  The shake is chocolate and yummy.


I start to feel some hunger pains around 10:30-11:00am, which is perfect because that's when I had planned for my mid-morning snack:  baby carrots and salsa.  Once again, yummy.  But not as satisfying as breakfast.


By lunchtime at 1:30, I am pretty hungry.  I drink another shake, and munch on some raisins and more carrots.  Since I am out of toothpicks to keep my eyelids open, I break down and have another pot cup of coffee with some sugar-free non-dairy creamer, French Vanilla-flavored, cause that's how I roll.


Afternoon snack:  I am so sleepy and I must be acting maybe a little cranky because everyone keeps crying and running away from me when I approach them, so I decide maybe I should go ahead and munch on that banana I brought to work.  It does not appease the beast within, but I drink a glass of water, and that helps fill the void.


Suppertime!  This did not go at all how I had planned.  I was going to come home from work, prepare chicken veggie stir-fry with brown rice, set it aside while I go for a long walk, then heat up the meal, sit back and enjoy.  Instead, I find myself sitting outside a co-ed gym in my car with a coworker, shivering while waiting for my boss and another coworker to get done with their zoomba class, watching various middle-aged men in freakishly short shorts walk around chatting up the gym-babes.  My coworker had left her car keys in the other coworker's car, and said coworker was not answering her cell phone while she was zoomba-ing her cares away, or whatthefrakever.  I get home almost two hours late, make myself a bowl of cold (though healthy--Fiber One) cereal with skim milk and collapse in front of my lovely iMac.  No workout for me today, other than trying not to dry-heave at the sight of the pasty hairy man who had forgotten to wear some sort of athletic supporter underneath his flappy short shorts--dude, just because you like to swing low your sweet chariot doesn't mean you should subject the rest of us to it.


To sum up the first day of Slimfast:


Hunger levels:  hungry, but manageable

Ease:  very easy
Energy levels:  Extremely low, but that's probably more due to getting only about 1/2 hour of sleep total last night.

Cravings:  nothing, other than for sleep and sweet release from the view of Mr Balljangles

Exercise:  did not exercise in morning or evening as planned.  Criticize this at your own peril.

I got next to no  sleep last night, and woke up to family and work drama, so the day did not start off great.  Normally, I would tell myself that a day such as this is no day to deprive myself by starting a diet, but I shushed that little voice inside my head and continued on with the plan.  I still have yet to go to the store for my complete essentials for the rest of the week, and only have the bare minimum of supplies for the diet.  Hopefully, I'll get the chance to shop tomorrow, or at the latest on Wednesday.

Happymaker for the day:  Um, I didn't kill anybody?  That's a happy-making thing, right?




Cappy

SLIMFAST: Day 1, Cory

10:30 AM
The drink is pretty tasty - no problem drinking it for breakfast. I do start to feel hungry mid-morning, so I eat the mid-morning snack - a small orange. I feel fine - not particular tired or fuzzy or jumpy or anything like that. Energy level is good.
CAPPY CONCERNS: Is the new diet effecting her mood in a negative way? I am nervous for her co-workers.
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3:30 PM
I am hungry at lunch time, so the drink and yogurt feel really skimpy. I can have a snack bar and carrots at mid-afternoon, but I go ahead and have the snack bar at lunch. Snack bar yummy! At mid-afternoon, I am definitely hungry for the carrots. I eat them, and feel like it should be fairly simple to make it to dinner.
CAPPY CONCERNS: I check the CNN website for any distressing news from South of the Mason-Dixon line, but seems all is quiet. I guess Cappy's handling everything better than I thought she would.
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AFTER DINNER: Am hungry when I get home. I stir fry some chicken with vegetables, and toast a piece of wheat bread. Then I ride the exercise bike for 30 minutes.
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Had a good day at work. Laughed with co-workers over silliness. Didn't really take any proactive "get more out of life" steps, but hey, it's only Day 1.

---Cory