Day 3 - Attack Phase

Day 3
Tuesday

Stats:
Weight: 162.2
BMI: 22.0
Fat %:  24.7
Water %: 54.1

This is our last day of the Attack Phase.  Lost another 1.5 lb, almost a total of 4 lbs since we started.  Again went down a few points on BMI, Fat %, but went up on water!  That is so weird to me because this diet is supposed to be very diuretic at this stage.  And it MUST be diuretic because I have to pee ALL THE TIME.  Especially at night, at least once, sometimes twice.

So compared to other diets, I would say this one is the easiest so far for me.  Again, the key is that you can eat unlimited quantities of the allowed foods.  Also, it is imperative that I can also have milk and fat free milk products.  This would be much harder for me if it was just meat.  I crave meat the least on this diet.  I pretty much don't think about the restricted foods as long as I am not hungry. 

Hubby has complained about feeling tired.  I don't feel that way...I feel pretty good actually.  The only time I feel really tired is at night.  But I'm sleeping good so that's a plus.  We both work out regularly, and my workout today was good.  I'm not really sticking to the 20 min walking/day because I already have a set workout schedule.  I do about half weights and half cardio, 3 days/week for 45 mins.  I also work downtown and do more walking than most.  So surely that counts in my exercise.

Breakfast was again a Galette and ham/egg whites.  That's a good breakfast.  The galette is starting to taste artificial to me though.  The sweetener doesn't taste as good in the galette as in yogurt or cottage cheese to me.

I didn't feel hungry all morning and worked out today at 11 am.  Afterward I ventured to the tunnel and found a restaurant that will probably be my lunch food source for the next month!  They specialize in rotisserie chicken and also have several vegetable sides.  I am sure these foods are cooked in butter and whatever but it's about as good as I can do without having access to a grocery store at lunch.  That rotisserie chicken was fabulous.  Probably the first time I've craved meat in about 36 hrs.  I also brought the cottage cheese/sweetener/vanilla and some turkey and cream cheese for snacks.

I must say I'm really looking forward to eating veggies tomorrow.  I miss them.  I want to make the cauliflower ground beef recipe in the book, that looks really good to me.

I plan to eat roast beef (still from the BBQ place on Sunday) along with eggs tonight and probably some yogurt/vanilla/sweetener.  I'll modify this tomorrow if it changes.  Right now I feel nice a full though, pretty good!

I have found this diet to be very reinforcing because of the quick weight loss at the beginning.  My husband and mother have also had positive results.  Hubby has lost the most of course (about 4 lbs), and Grammy has lost the least (about 2 lbs).  I'm sure this is due to her age of 74 and a slower metabolic rate.  But still very encouraging for her.  I am afraid of what will happen during the next phase of 1/1 (1 day protein/1day protein and veggies).  I don't mind if the loss slows down but I would be discouraged if the scale goes back up.  South Beach definitely worked for me but I remember feeling like it was very HARD to stick to.  I was much more obsessively thinking about my next meal than on this diet.  The cravings just haven't been that bad for me at all.  I can't stress how comforting it is that I can eat whenever, even if it is the same foods over and over.  But I've been a lifetime repetitive eater...eating something I crave for weeks or months and then growing tired of it, so this is not difficult for me to handle as long as I can eat as much as I want!