3 Day Weight Loss Diet - Day 1

If you are following along on YouTube as well, you will have seen my video where I am prepping the food for this 3 Day Diet Challenge I took on. It is through a website called The Holy Mess and the plan seemed like a good kick start to getting back on track with the WW plan. I have been making some efforts to get to the local meetings, but admit I am not getting there weekly like I used to. I had earned my 20 lb weight loss charm last year, but slowly my good habits started to fade and now I am down to only 8 lbs lost. The little angel that sits on my shoulder is telling me to reword that - I have lost 8 lbs from my heaviest weight - yahoo! Now, I would like to do more.

This 3 Day Diet, even though it follows WW's zero points food list, I would still refer to it as a Diet because you are restricting yourself with no carbs (bread, rice, potato and that type of carb) and also no added sugars. WW in itself is a lifestyle. If you eat the zero point foods you are eating healthy and if you stay within your daily allotted points, then you are in a deficit. The hard part is doing that consistently with well, ... LIFE! Life has challenges and parties, and summer bbq's and... chocolate. For me it is hard for multiple reasons and I will make a whole other post about that some day.

What I have a learned so far after 1 day of the diet and the food prep. Day 1 was simple to follow and I ate everything I was supposed to except the soup. I did not eat breakfast until almost 11 though, so did not need a second snack. I took this photo of my supper last night when I got full. Yep, that is how much food I had left. I learned my helpings of protein and veggies are not big enough, which is likely why I often have a carb like rice or noodles at supper. We were serving up supper and my husband took half the salmon and then he said, "well how much are you supposed to have?" I replied 6 oz. Well he got out his food scale and low and behold my serving of salmon was half of his salmon, PLUS all that was left - sorry Jay - you get to eat leftover roasted chicken I guess - ba, ha! Then I was supposed to eat 2 cups of veggies. I had made brussel sprouts. Realizing just HOW many brussel sprouts that is, I realized next time to make more than 1 kind of veggie.

I forced myself to finish my plate, as I knew I was going to be hungry later and did NOT want to go to bed hungry. I finally finished it at 8:00 p.m. I know what you are thinking... if you are full, then stop eating. But in reality, I think I was just done eating salmon and brussel sprouts. More variety would have helped. I was a bit hungry by bedtime at 10:00, but not too bad. Jay helped me log my WW points and I scored only 1, because apparently balsamic vinegar is not 0 points like I thought. I added some to my sprouts - woops!

The only real issue I had on day one was a headache and I attribute that to sugar and coffee withdrawal. I had the sugar from fruits, but that didn't seem to be enough. As for Day 2, well even bedtime of Day 1, I realized I was not as prepared as I thought. In my mind I had done my food prep. I had cut my veggies and made my soup and chili, but I did not make my tuna salad for lunch and I had planned to go to WW in the morning and go straight from there to deliver food for a friend. This is what I always do, I don't plan a lunch and end up eating on the road a chocolate bar or getting a coffee to tide me over because of poor planning (or is my mind planning this so I get what I really want and end up buying those treats?)

So to solve today's problem I did prep my breakfast before bed, but then couldn't bring myself to eat it this morning anyhow... so I fasted until lunch. Breakfast was plain Greek yogurt with frozen berries. My husband would LOVE this, but for me, way too tart and hard to get down to be honest. I decided I wanted to try the diet as is though and see how my taste buds react because sometimes it is my own mental blocks that stop me from doing things. Instead of going straight to my delivery, I came home for lunch and ate the yogurt I prepped. I will say that the mixed berries were... meh, but I did add some frozen sweet cherries and those went down pretty nice in the yogurt; I think if I actually blended it up first that may be a solution. In typing this I literally just realized berries and cherries are not the same thing, so went and used the bar code scanner on the WW app to see what the difference is. (fruit should be free, and so even though it scans as points, I don't think I have to count it, but maybe someone can confirm this for me) The cherries were 3 points per cup and the mixed berries 2 points per cup, and the cherries had 7 more grams of sugar in per cup, no wonder I like them better.

Now tuna. Tuna and I are not friends. We have not ever been friends. My mom and dad would make tuna melts when I was a kid and I always opted for tomato and Cheese Whiz sandwiches instead. I didn't realize until I was an adult I think it is a texture thing because I can also not do canned chicken - gag! This recipe does have some other fun ingredients in it like pickles and mustard, so I am going to give it a try when I get back from my deliveries as my afternoon snack. If it doesn't go down, I can eat the soup as my back up. The biggest issue with this is it is used as a dip for veggies, not served on toasted bread with melted cheese, so we will see what the verdict is. Stay tuned for the next report.

*An aside note, I capitalize Greek for Greek yogurt, as I assume it is from Greek culture? Do I capitalize Brussel in brussel sprouts? I did not, because I don't think it is in reference to a place... thoughts?