GM Diet - Day 1

Water. And fruit. Huh.

Water and fruit. 24 hours. I can do this.

I start the day with honeydew, watermelon, and my least favorite of the melon family, the cantaloupe.  It tastes good. Especially since I haven't enjoyed melon without guilt in almost a decade. Filling it is not, but I fill my belly with water too.

The hubs and I are working on a project for our flip house (technically not a flip until it sells, but that's the plan). We are building a deck. It is July 1 and it is 96 degrees. I intend to sweat a LOT. So I take tons more melon with me and push the water all day. By noon, I'm shaking from the lack of nutrients. I eat more fruit. More watermelon, more honeydew, gag down more cantaloupe, and push more water. This sustains me through the harder part of the day.

Around 1:30 I announce that I'm spent. We're mostly done anyway, so we tinker for a bit then head home. I get online and review the diet again, hoping for something else to put in my belly. Nope. Just fruit. I finish my watermelon. (seriously, I ate a whole watermelon...a small one, but still). I finish the honeydew.  I swing by the store and grab some grapes. I can eat grapes. I eat about 3/4 of a pound. I drink more water.

By 5pm, I'm asleep in my lawnchair on the front porch, a bag of half-eaten grapes resting on my lap, my bladder bursting at the seams.

Good lord there must be something I'm missing. I could kill someone right now I'm so hungry. Not that doing that would make me less hungry, it would just make me feel better.

I review the diet again and THIS time, I see the Wonder Soup. Really? How the hell did I miss this? I thought it was just for day three. But it says 'You are encouraged to consume large quantities of this soup.' And then there's the words 'unlimited quantities.'  It's a soup made primarily of onions and cabbage and it sounds like death...and heaven all at the same time.

The following soup is intended as a supplement to your diet. It can be eaten any time of the day in virtually unlimited quantities. You are encouraged to consume large quantities of this soup.

28 oz, Water, 6 Large Onions, 2 Green Peppers, Whole Tomatoes (fresh or canned), 1 Head Cabbage, 1 Bunch Celery, 4 Envelopes Lipton Onion Soup Mix, Herbs and Flavouring as desired.

So at 7:30pm, I race back to the store to fetch a basket of ingredients for my gruel. I chop and dice and boil it up and I'm so hungry by 8:30 that it's worth burning my tongue for half-cooked Wonder Soup. I down two bowls of it, another glass of water, and I hit it for the day.

God help me I better lose some weight.  The diet says most people lose between 1-3 pounds on the first day. I'm hopeful, since I ate less than 900 calories all day (thankful for my calorie tracking app), and burned more than 1300 with the deck building.


Up 10 times to pee over the night. But at least tired trumps hunger and I'm not miserable.