Day 3

W: 164.4. So -4 lbs in 3 days. Oh how I missed being home, and restricting...

Intake so far today:

Breakfast
-- 1/2 bowl cereal with skim milk (200)
-- Innocent orange/mango smoothie (99)

Lunch
-- 2 iced coffees from Starbucks (x)
-- Diet Coke (1)
And quite a few cigarettes whilst talking to Lina on the phone, which gave me a nice little nicotine rush.

Dinner
-- (Yet to have; am thinking a big salad with all the trimmings. Plus a bit of whatever my mum cooks. Shouldn't exceed 400 cals)

The day has gone very well. I woke up at 1pm and snoozed for a bit before I decided to get up and get going. The weather in London is glorious. Almost 30 degrees I think. Very very hot, and sunny, and clear. I was pouring with sweat on the way home from Starbucks but I felt like I was working out as I was walking, which was great. After I had my coffees I went around Tesco to do a mini shop for the next week. Got some staple items:

• A huge tub of fat-free plain yogurt (1kg and it cost me £1. It's 45 cal for 1 cup.)
• Big punnet of black plums 
• 250g tub of grated carrots
• Salad cream (20 cal per tbsp)
• Iceberg lettuce
• "Bacon" salad sprinkles 
• Mustard  
• Corn thins (like rice cakes but more buttery-tasting)
• Stevia sweetener 

For some reason, I feel like I can do this. It's 7.30pm and I've subsisted off 300 calories all day. Also, as I was walking round the supermarket, I felt a little dizzy but in a good way. It was like the hunger high kicked in. A little reminder that feeling hungry can be a good thing sometimes. I don't remember, genuinely, the last time I felt hungry. Just a sign of how I've been catering to my impulses for the last year and given little thought as to how empty/full I actually feel. 

Tentatively, the plan for tomorrow is as follows:

B: - Fat-free yogurt with Stevia, frozen (100) and 4 plums (100) 

L: - Coffee (seeing Caro and Tina for a much needed catch-up), rice cakes if I need them (100)

S: - Diet Coke, cigarettes, caffeine pills.

D: - Big salad, bit of whatever is cooked for dinner (400 max).

Will update later if I get a chance. Feeling in control and like this evening will go fine though. Also I've got to get on with joining that gym...

EDIT:

Had a big salad for dinner:

-- 1/2 iceberg lettuce (7)

-- Spiralized carrot (100)

-- "Bacon" salad sprinkles (200) <-- these are actually vegetarian

-- Grating of parmesan (50)

-- Lite salad cream (60)

(417 cal)

Which brings today's total up to 717 cal. For some reason feel like I ate a lot more than that, probably because the salad was so filling. This feels like progress.

If I eat anything else today it will be something like fruit or more lettuce with those bacon things. They are the bomb...