Let The Strictness Begin!! Day 1 of Phase 2

Day 3 of a 42 day program

Today was my first day in phase 2 which is the super restricted phase. I consumed only 500 calories throughout the entire day, and survived.

This morning was hard for me. I don't think that I was physically hungry as much as mentally hungry. I have eaten breakfast most morning for 32 years. That kind of habit is hard to break, but I did it. I drank 2 bottles of water during my commute to work and once there I switched to coffee with stevia. The sweetener took a bit of getting used to, but it was not too bad. Once I got moving at work, I forgot that I had not eaten and did just fine until lunch.

I ate my lunch (tuna on lettuce with 1/2 of a lemon squeezed over it and a melba toast slice), and I felt pretty full afterwards. I even held of eating my apple. Figured it would make a good snack around 3 pm. Well, I didn't make it to 3 o'clock. At about 2:30 I was hungry and so I ate the apple and I wish I could say that it cured my hunger, but no. So I drank 2 more bottles of water and while that helped, I stayed hungry most of the afternoon. Again, I am not sure that it is so much physical as it is mental. I usually snack quite a bit while I work - granola bars, trail mix, etc - and I think my brain was just throwing a temper tantrum.

After about 5 pm, I was ok and on my way home. As a matter of fact, I was OK enough that I didn't think about food until I got home and started to prepare dinner.

Now - Dinner is over and I felt full when I finished (Beef/bell peppers/orange/melba toast) and since then I am felt hungry again. This time it feels more physical - stomach growling and other things like that. I have no idea why and I will admit that I am uncomfortable. I used the other 1/2 of the lemon in a large glass of water and again it helped some....some.

So overall, it was not a bad day. It was not easy to ignore what my brain was telling me I needed. I could still eat tonight, especially something sweet, but how pathetic would that be to fail on the first day of the second phase. Nope. Not gonna happen. I am way to stubborn to fail that easy. I will make this work.