This is all about portions and what you can eat. So I had my breakfast of an orange and a cup of coffee with Stevia. (yeah, need to get used to that!) and went about portioning out my meat for the next few days. I started with the veal because I decided I'll have my veal for lunch.
I was reading through the HCG Dieter's Cookbook by Tammy Skye and she gave me loads of ideas on how I can season and prepare my meals in phase 2. I'm no stranger to spices an whatnot so I went ahead and created marinades for my veals. Today was Mexican flavor and I added some sea salt, black pepper, crushed red pepper, cumin, paprika, chopped fresh cilantro, and white vinegar to the veal in the baggie. Shook it up and put it away for a bit in the fridge. I also made one with curry powder and the usual spices and one with cajun seasoning (no sugar in that, yay!) I added vinegar in all of them to help keep them preserved and makes the spices stick.
I then got to work on my vegetable, (though it's technically a fruit, back in the '50's I think it was considered a vegetable). Anyways, I made an adaptation to my usual homemade thick, and chunky salsa using one tomato, a tiny bit of yellow onion chopped small, some cilantro chopped, salt, pepper, paprika, garlic powder, little bit of red pepper, vinegar, the juice from 1/2 a lemon, and a tiny bit of Stevia to make it sweet.
The finished product? My lunch with the breadstick, was not bad. Not bad at all! Very full of flavor. I was actually starting to shake a little bit when the veal was cooking anticipating my food. I'm pretty sure I'm hypoglycemic but not severely and I think it could be the physical workings going on in my body but I'll adjust. The shaking went away after I was near the end of my lunch, which was very filling, surprisingly.
I drank a ton of green tea and have been running to the bathroom every few hours to pee. This is a good thing and I know I'm flushing out the fat and bad stuff in my system.
I started portioning out my dinner of chicken and made it cajun style the same way as with the veal. I also got some fresh tilapia and shrimp at the store so I bagged and tagged those and put them in my meat drawer in the fridge.
So dinner was cajun style chicken, 5 strawberries, and half a cucumber, cut up with vinegar and salt. I made 2 portions of the cucumbers and put them in small containers earlier. I like cucumbers soaked in vinegar. They remind me of summer and something I learned from my ex-MIL. Pretty much one of the only good memories I have from her. I was beginning to get a headache while I was making my chicken and had to wonder, is it the food withdrawal of all the crap I have been eating or the actual drops kicking in?
Again, dinner was great tasting and I drank a whole glass of green tea with my meal and I am full. Like, Thanksgiving dinner full! Amazing. I felt like I couldn't eat the last few strawberries, cucumbers, and last 3 bites of my chicken. I couldn't believe it. My tummy was full and saying, no more! It's been about 40 minuets since dinner and I'm still good.
I'm saving my breadstick for a snack later if I want it. I've heard people cutting the breadsticks out completely and still doing fine, but I bought 2 boxes of the things so I am eating them!
Day 1 on the lower cal diet almost over. I wonder if it will work at weigh in tomorrow? I'm a sceptic, but this protocol is perfect for me as it's all spread out in black and white with what you can and can't do. It's easy directions. I'm all for following a routine and black and white. I am very much a yin-yang. And I think if I drop down to a healthy weight, I want another tattoo of a yin-yang. That will be one of my celebratory goals! :)
