Goodbye Water Weight.

 Published Retroactively.

28-July-2011.  

Morning weight: 154.5 lb.

Did my eyes just deceive me or have I lost five pounds already?  Wow...all that peeing must’ve done something because I’m pretty damn sure that that’s none other than water weight.  It’s all going to be a struggle from here.

Was in a bit of a hurry today so I had the Medifast chocolate mint crunch bar on the way to dropping the dogs off at Daycare.  James was working from home so he fed them and prepped them and got them ready for me to just take to the car and go.  I wasn’t feeling quite as perky today as I did yesterday (thank God! Who wants perky?) Anyway...Medifast chocolate crunch bar...I’m beginning to think that all these crunch bars are just going to be dry.  Again, the flavor was decent.  But I really need a bottle of water to prevent myself from suffering some sort of dry mouth.

I put off the Medifast Cappuccino Essentials until my second snack of the day.  Funny, I expected it to taste exactly like the regular Medifast Cappuccino...but it doesn’t.  Is it my imagination?  Hrm...I really do think the regular one tastes better.  This one is still okay.  Just a bit different.

Almost broke down and cheated at lunch today when friends invited me to go out.  I already had dinner plans with James’s mom, Jane, so I knew I wasn’t supposed to go out.  I had one of those quick internal struggles with myself that went something like this as soon as my friends asked me out to go to lunch:

Angel voice: You shouldn’t. You already have dinner plans. That’s gonna be your Lean and Green meal.

Demon voice: But going out is sooo yummy.

Angel voice: It’s also expensive...and you’re trying to save for the wedding.

Demon voice: Charge it!

Angel voice: There’s a Medifast cream of chicken soup with your name on it in your lunch bag.

Demon voice: You can eat that tomorrow.

Angel voice: Don’t you wanna be healthy and lose weight?

Demon voice: Don’t you want a nice delicious steak?

Angel: Didn’t you tell James you’ll try really hard to keep to the diet.

Demon voice: What he doesnt’ know won’t hurt him...

Angel voice: James will lose more weight than you.

Demon voice: Urm...*face palm*

And here’s how the conversation with my friends went.

Rebecca’s friends: Wanna go out to lunch?

Rebecca: Sorry, I can’t.  I got dinner plans.

Why is eating healthier so much more difficult?

In the end, I did decided on the Medifast cream of chicken again.  I had planned to eat the Medifast Chicken noodle, but the instructions we just a tiny bit longer and more complicated that I decided that can wait til this weekend.

Argh...got wrapped up at work and almost went four hours before my next snack.  It was the Medifast Pretzels and no, I’m not keeping them.  Daaamn...I thought those crunch bars were dry but these...these so-called pretzels sucked the moisture out of my mouth.  I thought it was the Sahara in there!  I grabbed another glass of water in order to finish the whole thing!  On the upside, in terms of flavor, it was ok.  I just wished it didn’t like a molecular sieve desiccator.

In the end, it was a good thing that my snack was a bit late as dinner was later than I had anticipated.  I was late meeting James at her house and we got into the restaurant during a crowded hour.  I had planned on having some sashimi with salad, but the restaurant had run out of the four fish that I wanted.  What bad luck!  So, I picked another one instead.

Lean and Green meal: Beef Kabob and salad at Spice Street in Chapel Hill. I ignored the grilled onions and basmati rice.

Jane and I chatted for quite a bit about life in general and flower bouquets for the wedding.  By the time I got home, it was past time for my late snack, which ended up being a Medifast Brownie.

Stats

Medifast Chocolate mint bar crunch - 3 stars

Medifast Cappuccino Essentials - 3 stars

Medifast Pretzels - 2 stars

Evening Weight: Didn’t look.

Gastronomic  ratings.

5 stars - I can see replacing potato chips with this

4 stars - It can be a steady part of my diet

3 stars - I can eat it.

2 stars - I'd rather skip a meal

1 star - I'd rather eat men's dirty socks.