Day Three

Week 1: Day 3

Hello again.

As I said earlier, I didn't post yesterday because I spent the evening making mum watch bits of Twilight. We're watching New Moon tonight, and then going to see Eclipse tomorrow night, which is exciting. Actually, I never got into the hysteria surrounding it, so I'm not all that invested in the movies but I still want to see it. It's fun to be in on the secret. It has to better than the books at least, they were complete drivel.

Oh, and I received a MASSIVE metaphorical kick in the shin yesterday when I actually read the Eat to Live book properly and it listed pumpkin as a starchy vegetable which should be avoided along with potato and so on if you dieting, which eliminates my faaaavourite meal, Thai Pumpkin Soup. I honestly thought it was my saviour, it was going to carry me through this 6-weeks on it's kind, delicious back and deliver me in a blaze of nutritious glory to my bathroom scales on September 12. But no, it seems that I'm going to have endure something else, an inferior soup, perhaps asparagus. I can't even replace the pumpkin in the recipe, because I'm only allowed to eat cooked green vegetables. My brain must have been doing laps in the swimming pool or chasing the cat or something when I read this. I've been living in a fantasy world where I'm allowed to eat all these delicious steamed, pureed, soupified, disguised, cloaked vegetables. No, no, says the diet. You may eat raw veggies of any colour, and you may eat cooked green vegetables. Diet, f*%# you.

So as of yesterday I had to revise my daily thing. You know the thing, here it is:

5.30 am: 5km walk/jog

1/2 hour stretches and toning exercises

Breakfast: Fruit smoothie

Frozen berries

3 pieces of other fruit

1 tsp Flaxseed Oil

30g Mixed nuts and seeds

1/2 Lemon, including rind

1 cup Water

Lunch: Salad

2 Cups of lettuce

Vegetables

50g Avocado

Squeeze of lemon juice

Dinner: Grilled/Steamed Vegetables

Vegetables

Chilli

Lemon Juice

Garlic

6.00 pm: 90 minutes of Yoga (Mon-Thurs only)

1/2 hour toning exercises

at all th It was fine yesterday. I had my delicious smoothie, with all the berries, banana, pear, the nuts and seeds, and the flaxseed oil.

For lunch I had a massive salad with baby spinach, snow peas, broccoli, mushroom, cauliflower and kidney beans. Seriously, it was massive, but I ate it all. I couldn't get enough of it.

For dinner I had some veggies, which is too boring to mention.

And then I got up today and weighed myself, and joy of joys! I had lost 900 grams.

I had my green coffee, which I have every morning without milk, and I made my smoothie with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, rockmelon (cantaloupe), a bit of apple, flaxseed oil and nuts and seeds.

I was doing great. Then I came home for lunch and I made the salad again, except this time I replaced the broccoli with cucumber. And I was hating it. I had to force it down, it was misery. Staring into that bowl was like staring into the depths of hell itself. Not even the balsamic could make me want to chew on that bloody cauliflower. It seemed to be a bottomless bowl. Like the Horn of Amalthea, the vegetables were just replenishing, or breeding, or whatever it is that those evil things do. Eventually, though, I saw the light and determinedly stuffed the last mouthful in.

I'm starting to worry about dinner, I'm feeling a real need to eat something more substantial and hot. Anything. Even a piece of toast. What am I going to do????