Excellent news! The scales made me very happy this morning. Since the beginning of this crazy GM Diet/Cleanse, I am down a solid 5 pounds. I could have called it 5.2, but I'm playing it safe and sticking with 5. I'm very happy.
I'm actually looking forward to today. I get meat. Oh glorious meat. Throughout the day I get a whopping 20 ounces of lean beef and 6 tomatoes. An odd combination, but I like tomatoes. Or I thought I did until tomatoes were my principle food source.
I fire up the grill on the deck at 5:30am to cook my 18.5 oz top loin steak. not a great cut of meat, but almost the right size and very very lean. I cut it up and take half to work and leave half at home. Then I cut up the tomatoes into chunks and do the same. I nosh on the meat all morning, a piece at a time, whenever my tummy grumbled for grub, and I'm perfectly satisfied. Protein makes all the difference in suppressing hunger.
I start in on the tomatoes about 8, thinking this won't be so bad...since I like tomatoes. But for some reason, they are not going down well. I wander around and find a salt shaker. Still making me gag. Then the nice girl who sits next to me and listens to me bitch and moan all day suggested some Splenda. I've never put sweetner on tomatoes so I give it a go. It was delightful! They were almost like candy, which I also don't really like. But definitely more palatable that way.
At 11, I hit the road to work from home until 5, so I finish up the steak at home and hit about 60 oz on my water intake. Around 4 I tear into the tomatoes again, but am not feeling it so I put them away and finish the rest of the second half of my steak. Was good. Salty and filling. When I'm done, I'm still in munchie mode. The hubs had made himself a hamburger patty and there was some raw hamburger left. I size it up and decide it may be a little over my 20 oz for the day when combined with what I've already had, but not much. So I make two burgers out of what's left, fry them in the skillet, and set them in the fridge to cool. (I have a plan).
After they've cooled, one of the burgers gets chopped up, added to the last two chopped tomatoes, with a little salt AND a little Splenda tossed on top and I have a delectable, legal, day-5 meal. It was really pretty tasty mixed up together. By now I've finished up all my 100 oz of water, plus another 60 since the directions say you have to push the water today. Not a lot of bathroom stops. Must be because at 102 degrees, my body has used up all the water I've ingested, just with me running from a/c to a/c.
So today, with the meat my caloric intake is up and I'm at just under 1000 calories for the day. Not bad. And 100% to the plan.
Tomorrow is the day I've been waiting for all week. It's Beef Day Friday. All the beef I can eat, and all the veggies to go with, cooked or raw. That extra hamburger patty I fried up is going to be a nice appetizer as I'm grilling up some more steak for breakfast.
Bring on the cow.
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