Day #4

WOO HOO!! Woke up this morning and weighed myself. Down 2 lbs from my start weight...which means I technically lost the 2/3 ish lbs I gained from fat loading. I am pretty sure this is water weight and adjustment weight, but I'll take it! It's motivation :)

Today was interesting. It was day 1 back to the office and it was very difficult. There were about 12038131093812 things coming at me at once and holding a conversation is still very hard for me...although my cold is gone and the asthma/lung issues are subsiding, I'm not used to speaking for 8 hours a day (shocking, I know!). Anyway, made it through the day even though I was a bit fussy. The combination of the stress from work, constant people, and being out in "public" added to my body's adjustment to this diet. Regardless, I feel great...no blood sugar issues, no nausea, no shakes..just fabulous!!!

I made an incredible dinner tonight...not gonna lie. I may be making things like this more often (I think Chris would love it too!). I can only have 100 grams of each kind of meat so I weighed out the shrimp I bought - 6 of them (de-veined, tail removed, and shell tossed) made the weight! I put them on the bottom of a non stick sauce pan (don't ask me why I used a sauce pan..no idea) and filled it with water so that the bottom half of the shrimp is submerged. Then, I added garlic and onion powder (quite a bit actually) so the shrimp can cook in super yummy water! I cooked on low-medium..it was slow, but tasted SO good! The broccoli came next..I used this steamer pink plastic thingy (pic below) to make broccoli that was barely steamed. I like it to stay a bit crunchy. The end result was.....AH-MAZING!!! I made 2 batches so 1 is for lunch tomorrow!!!

Food for day #4

Breakfast - giant cup of water after my HCG
Lunch - green salad with grilled chicken and homemade pico on top
Snack - 3 pieces of Melba crisps and an orange
Dinner - the AMAZING shrimp and broccoli I made
Snack - juicy Fuji apple

Poundage lost - 2 lbs!!