VLCD #3

Sorry I didn't write yesterday.  The first news I should share is that I released 2.8 lbs. yesterday and  2.2 lbs. this morning!  I did make a vlog, so check it out on www.youtube.com  the name is teabeghcg, but you can search with teabeg, I believe.  I had a headache most of the day AND I had to go shopping, so I didn't get home until late.  Frustratingly, youtube was down last night so I couldn't post my video until today, but I'm glad I got the video made anyway.  Today I just had to post it.

Today went SO much better than yesterday, because I didn't have a headache.  Also, the shopping trip really helped a LOT!!  Today for lunch I had a nice version of chili!  It was SO tasty, but too filling, so I really should have split it into 2 portions and had the rest for my snack.  Is that allowed?  It seems like it should be.  I'm not saving it for the next day or anything... Tonight, I intend to make some "chicken soup" with the chicken breast, celery and spices.  I'm hoping that will help the chicken to go down!  All day yesterday the idea of either chicken or fish made me sick, so I hope I can get it down today.  I don't want it to go bad...

So, with my chili, I had some spinach leaves, which I ended up leaving for a while because the chili was so filling.  I ate them later and I think I will just work on doing it that way every day.  I'm not hungry enough at any one time to eat all 4 things, so I'll just spread them out across the day.  It will give me something to do anyway! ha ha!

I made a strawberry drink: handful of strawberries (I was surprised to find fresh organic strawberries yesterday at Woodman's); 1 tablespoon of milk; about 4 drops of orange cream stevia (purchased yesterday, as well); and some mineral water.  It was a great snack.  I had it yesterday, too, but with frozen (and kind of freezer-tasting) strawberries and some plain stevia.  Today's was much better.:)

I'm not NEARLY as nauseated today, but I've been a bit light-headed, so I'm trying to be in tune to my body to see what it needs on a moment-by-moment basis.  I had my bible study this morning and was surprised when my stomach growled a couple times.  I hadn't eaten anything at that time (9:30 to 11:20).  I had only had my water bottle (23 oz.) and no tea, yet, either.  Probably, I should have eaten an apple or something, but then I wouldn't have had the chili and the strawberries as my fruit.

At this point, I'm counting my tomatoes as my fruit because, well, they are a fruit.  We'll see how it goes.  Of course, some of the deviations might not show up as a problem now, but later, when I'm trying to stabilize, so hopefully, this is not a huge deviation!!  It's very hard for me to eat fruit as it is--apples tend to constipate me (I know, TMI!) and oranges and grapefruit give me acid reflux so I really only LIKE strawberries.  Since they won't be around for much longer, I don't want to get sick of the apples, oranges and grapefruits.

Oh, another new thing is the Grissini bread sticks!  I ate one in the car!  Well, I was on the way somewhere and didn't want to arrive hungry... Anyway, when I got home, I read more about the breadsticks and found they're called GrissinO,  not GrissinI, so I worried until I looked it up and someone said they're the same thing.  Phew!!  I was sweating!!

I'm really sad that onions and celery count as an entire vegetable, because I would love to have them for FLAVOR in small doses more than by themselves.  But tonight, I'm planning to make the chicken soup and it will have celery in it and nothing else.  Kind of boring, but let's see what I can do!

I'm hoping my thinking will clear up soon.  My mind is so easily distracted and confused and while I do have bouts with that, I don't seem to STAY in it quite so much usually.  I know I'm detoxing.  I feel it in every cell!  Hopefully, this will pass soon, too.  Other than that, the hunger is mild.  I expected to feel RAVENOUS and for a short time on the first day I was very, very hungry, but nothing I had never been through before.  I attributed most of it to coming off of sugar.

Mentally, I'm pretty psyched!  I need to release .8 more lbs to be back to my starting weight, but that could happen in the morning, right?  That's my prayer, anyway!