Diet Day 5

I had my first real weigh in today.

Since I'm too embarrassed to post my weight, we'll do a count down.

Thurs 7/5: Sign up day. Starting amount I want to lose: 46 lbs to go

Friday 7/6: Got my menus. Somehow I was down 3 lbs. 43 lbs to go

Wed 7/11: First weigh in and Day 5 on diet: down 5 lbs. 38 lbs to go


I'm not usually one of those that loses a lot of weight at the beginning of a diet, since it is mostly water weight, but I finally lost a lot of my water weight gain from my pregnancy.

What I've been doing well: My fridge is stocked with chopped up peppers, cucumbers, mushrooms, sugar snap peas and cherry tomatoes so I can easily eat all my veggies easily. Also, we have washed raspberries, blackberries, cherries, and blueberries and chopped up watermelon ready to go.

What's hard: I miss my carbs. There is a Carb lover thing where I can trade one of my proteins for a balanced protein-carb meal and I use that for my cereal addiction. I try to only do it every other day so I can start weaning myself off that many carbs. It's not that I don't get to have carbs, but I'm having much less than I did before. I'm an addict. :-)

I'm working so hard to do this right. I really want this to be my last diet ever. Or at least my last time needing to lose more than 10 lbs.

Thanks for your support everybody! I'm not telling anyone that I'm doing this except for two of my friends and J's parents who are going to join too. They did it before and were successful, so she wants to do it again. I'm not telling my family or anybody else because at least with my mom, it's setting myself up for negative feedback and I don't need/want that.