The Best Laid Plans

I got on the scale yesterday.  I need a starting point right?  It's been a while, and when you see the number, you'll know why.  I debated on whether or not to post the number because I was embarrassed.  I decided on full disclosure, because it's likely if you're reading this you know what I look like anyway, and the only way to celebrate where I'm going is to acknowledge where I've been.  So I am starting this journey weighing 276 pounds, the heaviest I have ever been.

Well day 1 can be summed up in one phrase..."learning experience".  I did, for the most part, stay on plan...but it was a little frustrating.  If you remember, because I was so overwhelmed with planning, I decided to use the sample menu I was given.  There are two big lessons I learned.

1. WHEN STARTING AN ENTIRELY NEW WAY OF EATING, DON'T TRY TO EAT FOODS YOU KNOW YOU DON'T LIKE
On my menu for day 1 were things like figs, dates, and prunes...all of which I don't like.  I also had a vinaigrette with my salad and every since I was pregnant I can't eat sour foods like vinaigrettes, pickles and such.  Also, not every green in the world has to be in my salad...if parsley isn't a main ingredient its ok :)  I was choking down foods just to get them in, and that shouldn't be happening if i am going to do this for the rest of my life.


2. WHEN GOING TO BE OUT FOR THE DAY, ESPECIALLY AT THE BEACH, KEEP IT SIMPLE NO MATTER WHAT THE MENU SAYS.
I was so determined to "do good" my 1st day, and follow the menu perfectly.  I planned ahead, I prepped the day before, juiced my juice, made my salad, my dressing, baked my yam, got everything together and packed it all up.  Well I learned that eating a cold yam on the beach is disgusting, and the thought of eating that salad out there just didn't didn't sit well with me.  The juice...the thought is turning my stomach as I type...lets just say I left a nice pile of pink sand in  Ocean Grove :)  It would have been smarter to keep it simple and eat for the beach and not for the menu.

So overall I stayed true to the diet, but not true to the menu.  I think that is what I am going to be doing from here on in.  My salad in the evening had a salad dressing that had some sugar but that was the worst of it.  

So day 1 here was my menu:
Breakfast: 
Slice of watermelon
1/2 pint of raspberries
3 dried figs
3 prunes
1 date
15 raisins
banana


Lunch:
A very little bit of carrot/beet/cucumber juice
Bite of a yam
(lunch was pretty much a bust)


Dinner:
Baked salmon with lemon and dill
Some almonds
Salad with sesame ginger dressing (wheat free, dairy free but not sugar free)


Snack:
Hummus and cucumber