Emily Brewer Central

Day 2

I feel like I must have eaten 12 pounds of spinach for lunch on day 2. No joke.  I had to choke the last bit of it down but when you are hungry, you are hungry.  BUT I had a great present on the scale the morning of day 2, a loss of 3 lbs from the day before.  Before you start saying “that’s only water weight!” yes, yes, I know this – but it sure helped me stay motivated when I wanted to eat the neighbor’s cat for a snack this morning.  I was able to keep it under control, keeping focused on the 3 pound loss and greedy to keep the numbers dropping.  I have heard you drop significantly in the first of week HCG due to the calorie restriction so I want to get it down before I hit the inevitable plateau.

Last night was definitely rough as I was hyper fixated on my hunger and food in general.  I have a normal habit of watching cooking shows incessantly on the Food Network.  That had to go, STAT.  Then I started watching mindless drivel like Holly’s World and the Kardashians on E! and all I noticed was what they were eating.  Ugh.  This must pass eventually and this diet won’t last forever, but the first day felt like 12 days!  Hoping it starts to normalize for me a little bit so I stop feeling like a deprived starving maniac.

I would also like to move the focus away from the food and the hunger a bit to what kind of intrigues and excites me about this diet.  It is so limiting, so restricting that you absolutely have no room for error or mistake.  Any bit of cheating will likely be done with full knowledge that this race is mine to win or lose.  In researching on the web someone commented on an article and said this about the diet: “And the longer I go, the less pull food and emotional eating have on me. So I am making changes that will last a lifetime.”  If eating a gallon of ice cream isn’t a possibility after a hard day and it continues to not be a possibility for an extended period of time, eventually maybe you handle it differently all together.  That is the exciting part for me.

On to Day 3!!!