Please, bloggy-world, meet 2 pieces of my heart.
Now, that being said, day 2 of the diet=I'm feeling mehhh right now.
Bran muffins (yes, I am a 70-year-old grandma. I knit as well) are my saving grace right now (bran keeps you fuller, longer, come to find out. thank you my mother for introducing me to that little fact). Bran muffin in the morning for breakfast, apple/orange for snack, whatever low-calorie thing I can find for lunch, almonds (unsalted...yeah I had the same reaction) and tonight, steak for supper. Since I was starving and I still had over 1000 calories before my 'limit' was met, I got to have 2 servings of steak (a serving size of steak is 3 ounces, about the size o
Bran muffins (yes, I am a 70-year-old grandma. I knit as well) are my saving grace right now (bran keeps you fuller, longer, come to find out. thank you my mother for introducing me to that little fact). Bran muffin in the morning for breakfast, apple/orange for snack, whatever low-calorie thing I can find for lunch, almonds (unsalted...yeah I had the same reaction) and tonight, steak for supper. Since I was starving and I still had over 1000 calories before my 'limit' was met, I got to have 2 servings of steak (a serving size of steak is 3 ounces, about the size o
f a deck of cards...thus my excitement that I'd get to eat more than the food required to feed an elf) and some potatoes (that awkward moment where you're cooking something that you know is gonna be delicious, but then you remember that you've put yourself on a diet...). Had a bran muffin and a glass of milk for evening snack, which leaves me at...
1837 calories. my 'limit' is 2034. So I'm still good (another class of milk, anyone?)
anyways, it did show on the scale today that I gained 3 pounds (I managed not to cry), but then I read that sometimes when diets are started kind of out of the blue (like mine was, haha), that it can send your body into starvation mode and you gain a few pounds. As long as they go off.
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