01 August 2013

Medifast: Day 4

Here are my meals for today:

1) Cinnamon Cereal
2) Cinnamon Pretzels
3) Eggs
4) Cinnamon Pretzels
5) Brownie
Lean) Wendy's Salad

Cinnamon Cereal: I don't have a lot of time to eat at home in the morning since I don't like waking up early :) So today I took the cereal and almond milk with me to work. I was really nervous about the cereal because I had tried this one dry and hated it. I had also tried the Triple Berry Cereal with cow's milk and I also hated it. My coach told me that letting the cereal soak in the almond milk helps it so I did that. The first few bites were weird but then it was find! Hurray! Something else I can eat!!

Eggs: I found a pin on Pinterest with tips about these eggs. Instead of cooking it in the microwave I cooked it on the stove, like normal eggs. Here's a tip: I let the egg powder soak for 30 minutes before I cooked them. Here's another tip: These cook WAY fast. Mine turned into an egg crepe! Next time I'll lower the heat so it'll be more like scrambled eggs. I also put 1TB of medium salsa on the eggs. I don't know if that blocked any weirdness but they tasted fine. Aside from looking like an egg crepe. I'm pretty shocked at how normal it was to eat those. I loved to make scrambled eggs with salsa and black beans. The Medifast eggs tasted just like that, minus the beans.

Today is the first time I'll be away from home for a long time. Tyson got off work early today so we drove up to Ogden so he can get his shot early; we're going camping with our ward tomorrow so we can't do it this weekend. My lean meal was supposed to be at 5:30pm but we were at my in-laws' house and they didn't have anything I could eat for my lean and green. Everyone else had Costco pizza. We started our way back to Provo and I finally got to eat at 7pm. I keep eating the pretzels because I don't have to cook them or eat them with milk. When I get the bars I won't be eating pretzels multiple times a day. Honest!

Yesterday was a hard day. My boys had chili for dinner and I was so tempted but didn't give in. I'd also like to mention that I have regular vanilla ice cream and chocolate Skinny Cow and caramel Skinny Cow bars in my freezer that I haven't been tempted to eat AT ALL :)

My coach told me to drink some Powerade Zero. I'm not a Gatorade or Powerade fan so I haven't tried that yet. But last night my hips and legs were sore so if it doesn't get better than I will have to.

Like I've mentioned before, my aunts have done or are doing Medifast too. They've got some really great tips and tricks which is nice. They said to take the Tomato Soup and turn it into a pita. I'll have to look up how to do that but it'd be cool since I've heard that this particular soup is gross. I guess the Chicken Noodle Soup can be used as chips. Weird. I'll have to try it out. I can't wait to get some bars. They have 

I still haven't tried my cauliflower as something else. I'm nervous about it. 

What I am missing most: BREAD. Seriously. I have a friend doing Weight Watchers who is the same. She always told me that bread was her biggest weakness. All I want is a warm roll with mashed potatoes and gravy. Mmm...

Medifast: Day 3

I'm still not having any headaches. I don't feel especially tired. Am I doing this wrong?

I decided that in the mornings I'm going to eat stuff I know I like. I will try new stuff in the afternoons where I can get something else if I hate it. Three of my aunts have done Medifast so they've been helping me understand what it's like for a while. I guess my pancake experience from yesterday wasn't that unique.

Yesterday I bought three bags of chicken breast. Today I'll be baking some of these and the rest I'll be separating into smaller packages so I can defrost a bit at a time for my lean and green meals. I also bought cauliflower yesterday. I've heard it can be a substitute for rice or mashed potatoes. I think I'm going to do a mock fried rice today or tomorrow for my lean and green. I bought egg beaters so that'd work for my lean.

Here's what I had today:

1) Chocolate Chip Cookie
2) Cinnamon Pretzels
3) Beef Vegetable Stew
4) Chocolate Chip Cookie
5) None
Lean) Chicken breast spinach salad with zucchini and grape tomatoes.

Only thing new was the beef vegetable stew which I had a hard time eating. William seemed to like it though. I tried to eat as much as I could.

I weighed out 6-oz of chicken breast and cooked it on the stove. Spritzed it with lemon juice and ate it on a bed of spinach leaves with veggies. It was good. The dressing I picked at the store is too much for me. I tried to use 2TB like I'm supposed to but it drowned my salad. Then I realized I only had 2 greens instead of 3: 1 cup of spinach when I was supposed to do 2. Whoops.

I'm still drinking lots of water and trying to be brave when it comes to new food. I don't feel hungry ever. It's weird. I used to not eat until I was hungry so it's hard for me to eat all the time.

I forgot to take a bag to work which is why I missed one meal. My bad. Tomorrow will be better.