Lemonade/Watermelon Diet 3.29.17

Okay, yesterday wasn't a good day for the diet.  I had a meeting from 11am - 1pm and afterwards we had lunch.  I'm not lying I was hungry because I didn't have a chance to eat anything prior to the meeting, so I caved.  I ate salad and chicken (not too bad???).

The good news is my weight was unchanged.  This morning I still weighed in at 159.6.  The bad news, that one indulgence will prevent me from reaching my goal of 156 by Friday.  :-(  

Funny though, usually when I'm only eating watermelon or drinking lemonade, I don't wake up hungry the next day.  This morning I'm starving, can't wait to dive into my melon.

Here's hoping for a better today.

Lemonade/Watermelon Diet 3.28.17

This week makes 2 months for me doing the lemonade diet and maybe 3 weeks combining it with watermelon.  Right now I'm not sure when I'm going to end my journey, my focus is learning to eat right and making better decisions when putting food into my mouth.  I know I'm planning vacation in May so maybe that's when I will end it, but for now it one day at a time.  For me this way of eating is becoming habitual - eat on the weekend, diet during the week.  What I do enjoy is not having any headaches about what to cook for breakfast, lunch or dinner - hassle free.

Yesterday, my mind kept jumping back and forth on food, nothing too serious, it's just that I wanted to pop something in my mouth to chew on.  It was extremely busy in the office, what with us being short on staff, etc. so I didn't get very much in.  I managed 10oz lemonade and 30oz water.  I probably got 3-4 cups of watermelon in.  Not the best, but I'm just happy my water intake has increased.

I weighed in at 159.6 this morning, so maybe I will make it to 156 by Friday.  Once the weather warms up a bit more I have several dresses I want to begin wearing, I like how my body is changing and my clothes are fitting.  It make me happy that I've stuck with this for so long.

Several of the girls at the office are beginning their egg fast, promised to lose 24 lbs in 2 wks.  It sounds great and I was tempted to give it a shot, but watermelons are so much cheaper, plus I don't have to cook the watermelon.  Just cut it, chop it and stick it in the fridge.  So, much easier  :-)  But I won't knock the egg diet, it's something I may look at later during the year.

Lemonade/watermelon diet 3.27.17

I have a great weekend, although a bit tiring.  Still doing a lot of work on the house which have my buns aching this morning, but I won't complain because I got lots done.

I find I can only eat 1 meal a day, where it was difficult for me to accept that initially, I decided to embrace it and move on.  I've been living in the Bahamas for years now, and there's a food they call Boil.  Well I never knew what Boil was, but I was told if you want to eat healthy by Boil.  Well Saturday when I went to the store I saw they had this Boil.  Actually all it is is boiled veggies and meat.  However, this particular day it consisted of boiled ham, cassava, sweet potatoes, cabbage and yams.  Initially I thought, ok look bland, but the seasoning they used made it fantastic.  It was a bit too much starchy veggies for me so I just had the ham, sweet potatoes, cabbage & green beans.  Now being on this diet for so long has has cause my stomach to shrink, so I was only able to eat a few spoons for lunch & dinner.  I threw the remaining in the freezer, with plans of finishing it up on Friday.  I can't get over how well seasoned it was, I loved it!

I stayed on track on Sunday also, fixing pasta for dinner and having a glass of wine (something I don't usually drink) kept me bloated for the day.  I later had 1/2 cup ice cream for desert.  I woke up this morning still feeling full and so happy to not have to worry about food for the next few days.

My weigh in this morning was 161.4 that's up 3.8lbs from Friday.  I just hope the scale is nice to me on Friday where I will see 156 - keeping fingers & toes crossed.

Today I'll be tweaking my diet with lemonade, but rather than using maple syrup to sweeten my lemonade I'll use stevia instead.  That's because watermelon has natural sugar and I don't want too much sugar in my diet.  I'm also going to try consuming much more water, something I've been slack in doing - I'll push for 60oz but 30oz will be cool to.

Here's hoping  for an eventful week!

Watermelon Diet 3.24.17

Today is day 5 my off day.  I weighed in this morning at 157.6 that's much lower than what I was expecting.  I'm excited because I'm now 2 lbs away from my goal weight of 155.

So far, I've been enjoying the diet with watermelon, however, my preference is to mix it up with the lemonade.  I found the lemonade takes away my cravings for food and the watermelon keeps me full.  I did sip on some lemonade mixture yesterday and can happily say I did not experience any digestive problems.  

The  best part about this diet is the savings...no expensive foods or ingredients, just simple watermelon or lemonade.  No all night preparations, and no worries over what to have for breakfast, lunch or dinner.  Really simple, the way I like it.

Next week I will take pictures and measurements,  I'm hoping I can be at 155 before Easter.  I'll try to be cautious about what I put in my mouth over the weekend and make sure to monitor my intake of food.

Today I'll have chicken noodle soup for breakfast/lunch and perhaps bbq wings to go with soup for lunch.  I'm not sure about dinner, I have a porkchop in the freezer from last week.  Usually I can't eat too much, so we'll see.

My feast days will be about learning to eat in proportion.  :-)

Watermelon Diet 3.23.17

It's been an extremely busy week.  I've been meaning to post but something always came up or I was just too tired to turn on my computer.

My last post was Monday, where I weighed in at 161.4.
Tuesday - 160.4
Wednesday - 163.4
Thursday - 159

I'm sure you're looking at Wednesday and saying Whoa!  Unfortunately I got side tracked.  We held an award ceremony on Tuesday at the office which included lunch.   And of course, you know who, was responsible for putting it together.

I busy and hungry all day, with nothing to drink but a cup of green tea.  I had brought my watermelon to eat on, but running up & down prevented me from doing that.  Sooooo, by the time the event was over I found myself in line with fish & coleslaw on my plate along with a bun.  Not too bad, but later the awardees cut their cake, and who was standing by to get a slice???? You got it, me.

 Actually, I'm not too disappointed in myself.  I think I did well controlling my intake of food, it's just that I really didn't want the cake, and I should have remembered my watermelon, but I succumbed to cake.  :-(  I'm so angry, because my New Year's resolution was to refrain from eating cake, cookies, etc. until April...I came soooo close.

But what I'm thankful for is that I now realize I definitely need to work on resisting eating foods or junk that I'm really not into eating.  Once I come off of this lemonade / watermelon diet I want to make sure I know how to control my intake of food.  It's going to take a while for me to do that, and I think a lot of it can be controlled mentally.  Learning to say NO.

Take last night, one of my friends came by and she knows I love chips, so what did she bring for me to munch on while we talked...chips.  I so, wanted to put my hand in that bag and stuff my mouth, but after some thought  I just said no.  At one point I wanted to take out a chip and just lick the bbq seasoning off of it, but I stood strong, well maybe a little stooped, but I didn't give it.  I was actually proud of myself for being able to stare down those spicy chips.  :-)

I plan to be on this way of eating for a few weeks longer, and I'm hoping, no praying, that I develop a strong mental attitude where I can just say NO when I'm not hungry or when I don't want anything to eat.  So whereas before it was a battle between my stomach and food, now it's a battle between food and my mental capacity to say NO. 

3/20/17 - Watermelon diet

I weighed in this morning at 161.4  which means I had a 1.8lb increase over the weekend.  I still need to play the mental game by convincing myself that it's okay that I don't eat as much as I use to. For  dinner/lunch yesterday I had 1 steam pork chop & potato salad.  I didn't get frustrated and I was content that I was full, but then I turned around and bought 1pt butter pecan ice cream and ate all... :-( I'm not disappointed that I ate the ice cream, I'm disappointed that I felt it was okay to eat the whole pint in one sitting.  :-(   These are the issues I have to work out before coming off my diet.

This week I will stick with just watermelon & cantaloupe (I have a little left from last week).  I had some lemonade over the weekend and the belching started back, so I'm going to let it rest for the week and give it a shot next week.

 
  

Day 5 Lemonade & watermelon combined 3.17.17

Today is day 5 of my diet and stepping on the scale I'm still at 159.6...that doesn't surprise me because I'be been pretty stationary at me desk all day yesterday and when I got home I sort of sat around and then went to bed.  This new timing along with everything else is really getting to me, plus it's been cold for the past few days which means all I really wanted to do for the week was snuggle under my blanket.

I've been wondering if I should continued with combining my diet with lemonade or go back to straight lemonade for the week, but I remember on Day 3 (I think that's when it was) after drinking my lemonade mixture I once again started experiencing indigestion, it wasn't bad, because I haven't been drinking that much, but it was definitely there.  Quite annoying.  So I think I'll pick up another watermelon over the weekend.

Now we are having an event at the office on Tuesday, lots of food involved, so I have to figure out how I'm going to work that into my routine, or do I skip that day and feast???  More than likely I'll probably munch on something but I'm hoping to stay on track.  I'm beginning to enjoy knowing I don't have to worry about lots of food during the week, and I feel I'm beginning to lose my fascination of food....well not too much, but I don't sit at my desk or at home constantly thinking about what I want to eat and that's a good sign for an "over eater anonymous" person like me.  :-)

I was suppose to stop at the store to pick up some soup for breakfast & lunch, but I just chopped up another cantaloupe and grabbed that frozen chicken breast I had in the freezer.  I know that's not much of a meal but things are really crazy right now and I really don't want to worry about food.  I think so long as I have something to eat I'll be okay.

I'll try to take my measurements over the weekend and maybe even take a few pictures, but that depends, if the plumber comes I'll probably be too busy moving around the house to do very much of anything.

Gotta run!