Day 1 of my 'only eating when you're hungry and when you do eat, eat wisely' diet went well. Not as well as I liked though. In total, I ate 2 celery, spinach & grape salads with Russian dressing, a protein bar, 2 handfuls of mixed dried berries and nuts, some celery with low fat hoummous, 2 spelt crackers with marmite, and 2 campari and blood orange juice cocktails in the evening with my mum. I don't know how many calories that is and I don't want to know. I was happy with most things that I ate because it's all healthy (besides the alcohol... which I needed to get me through last night) but unhappy because whilst prior to the evening I was only eating when my stomach started to rumble from hunger, the minute my mum got home I had the second salad, crackers and drinks purely because she was eating too. I have got to snap out of this.
Either way, precisely a pound down this morning: 142.6 lbs. Bring on 141.
Today, I have got a fucking horrible set of things to do, none of which I'm interested in. Firstly, I have to finish my ENTIRE English lit essay. Yes, that awful one that's been dragging on for weeks and months. I have to re-shape my essay, re-write basically half of it, add another section because it's not nearly long enough then check how many words I have (minus quotations), add in critical references, and then voila. I'll have something to work with... but fuck me, it's a lot to do in one day. Especially since I also have to babysit from about 5.30 onwards (I'm so tempted to cancel, but I'm not going to because it means money). Tomorrow morning I have to send my finished document in, and then I have to quickly finish and send in my English language essay by 4 in the afternoon. It's going to be a horribly busy next few days. And then tomorrow night, when all this crap is over, I will enter post-traumatic bliss at the pub with my best friends.
In terms of eating I haven't really got a plan... I'll eat when I start to get hungry, which hasn't been yet (it's 10.30 am). Yesterday it took till 2 to get hungry :/ Well, I'm just going to listen to my body and see how it goes, hopefully drop another lb by tomorrow. Fingers crossed I'll be 140 or lower for the casting? (Not that they'll be able to notice, but it's a psychological thing).
In the fridge I have a bright selection of juices (orange, mango & goji berry smoothie; super berry smoothie; sanguinello blood orange juice; orange and carrot juice; and pomegranate juice). And I have lots of veggies and fruit for salads... celery, lettuce, peppers, grapes etc. Shouldn't go wrong. Oh, and I've designated a cleaned-out Whole Earth PB jar to an 'en cas' stash of dried berries, sultanas and nuts that will come in handy at school next week. So I'm all set for food. And there are some croissants, and some coffee. It's all good guys.
I love that picture! I wrote you this huge comment on your
ReplyDeletelast post and I just noticed it isn't there :( Hate awkward blogger! It sounds like you are back in the saddle now though which is awesome. I really need to get in your head space and steal your healthy eating ways! Need to get me an 'en cas' too! Eating out of boredom/solidarity is the worst. I'm going to try your way today - only when hungry xxxx