THE DIET

So...here is the diet that Cameron and I started on Monday. It's pretty intense, and it's a two-week process. It goes as follows

for first week eat:

can eat fresh or organic vegetables
no corn or potatoes
boil or steam veggies
only one tsp of butter with each meal
can eat beans (as long as no added sugar)
can eat fresh or organic fruits except for bananas
can only drink green tea
must drink at least 8 glasses of water a day!
you can use as many spices as you want including salt and pepper

you can't use artificial sweeteners.

during week 2
-you do the same except you add grilled or baked chicken and fish. more fish than chicken.

also, during the entire thing you get a box of pills that costs about 20$ from Whole Foods and you take them the entire time.

My friend Chad and his wife did this diet. He lost 15 pounds and 4 inches off of his waist in 2 weeks. And felt great!
this diet is pretty intense...but it works.

The best thing about this diet so far is what it is doing to Cameron and I mentally. Emotionally we don't see food the same way. We both sort of use food for emotional comfort and because it is so delicious (me more so than him), but now we just see it as nourichment for our bodies. Things that we used to find disgusting are really appealling to us because beggars can't be choosers. We are so limited in what we can eat. Sweet potatoes with butter and cinnamon taste like a dream, and a gala apple is like heaven. It's really changed our opinions on food and what we like. It's great.

We both are doing great, and we are 4 days in. The first couple of days were hard for me because I had to cut out Diet Coke's and Coffee. I basically detoxed from caffeine. I was probably drinking at least 2 Diet Coke's and 4 cups of coffee per day. That's a lot of caffeine. Now I get about 1/8 of that from the cup of Green Tea that I drink per day.

I cheated once. I couldn't help myself on Tuesday night and I had a granola bar. I felt TERRIBLE afterwards and didn't want to tell Cameron, but I felt really bad because we are in this together. But hey- I guess if I'm going to cheat a granola bar isn't such a bad choice. I should have had a Snickers or something to make it worth its while.

Anyways, only give me words of encouragement or I will kill you.

Happy Thursday.

Lindsay

ps- Oh, I've attached a picture of how I feel about the diet. It is a love/hate relationship. I hope that comes across in the picture.