At least, until I should be at my goal weight. Technically, 4 down, 726 to go, but who's counting?
Day 4: Plan--2 proteins, 4 veggies, 2 fruits, 2 starches, 2 "snacks" (S4L protein-filled supplements), 1 fat, 4 oz. skim milk
Breakfast: supplements (1 vitamin, 2 water-shedding pills, 1 metabolizer, 1 neuroslim, as well as my normal glucosamine/chondroitin, vitamin C, and calcium chews) apple and 20 oz Slim4Life fiber and energy packets in water
Snack: S4L (cold) hot chocolate
Lunch: supplements (2 water-shedding pills, 1 metabolizer) salted raw broccoli with fat free ranch, boiled seasoned chicken leftovers
Snack: S4L chocolate peanut butter bar, half an orange
Dinner: supplements (9 fish oil, 2 water-shedding pills, 1 metabolizer) salted steamed broccoli, 3/4 cup brown rice, boiled seasoned chicken leftovers, leftover turkey, milk, 1 tbs. light Miracle Whip (I don't do mayo)
Water: 140 oz
Today was not as bad as I thought it would be. Tonight's post is very typical of today. It is 11:40 on Friday night, and I almost forgot to post. I forgot where my keys were earlier today, and called my husband, almost in tears of frustration, to come home and pick me up so that I could go to my party tonight. I was in the middle of writing emails at work today and paused in mid-sentence, forgetting what I was going to write. Almost forgot to eat ANY starch today (hence, the large portion at "dinner"--if it's the last thing you eat at night, isn't it dinner? Even if it's 9:00?). Typing a password I use several times daily, I got home from work and spent several minutes typing in the password minus 1 character. Repeatedly. Forgot to eat a fat at dinner, so I ended up having a full tablespoon of light MW at 10:00. Trying to stomach eating it straight, I finally decided to dip some broccoli in it. Not too bad.
I don't like pills. I have a sinus infection right now that would be pretty much cured if I would just go to the doctor and get a prescription for amoxicillin and take some Mucinex. I don't like pills, though. So I would rather not go, wait until I can't stand it anymore, and get it all over with. I'm afraid if I go now, before it's the worst it can get, I'll just have to go back later this fall and get another prescription. I have arthritis in my ankle. Sometimes it hurts immensely.I refuse to take pain pills every day, because I know when I'm 60, I'll be taking something 10 times as strong and it won't do the job. So I take the ibuprofen when I absolutely can't stand it. So you can imagine how I felt loading up on all the supplements this morning. Dividing them up (out of my fancy ziploc sandwich baggie) made me feel, first of all, like an apothecary, and secondly, like an old person. I've never seen someone my age take so many pills. Twenty-eight in all. And trying to figure out which one is which, which goes with which meal, which to take with which drink, I had to have my booklet in front of me and I'm still not positive I got it right. And I'm not even at full dosage yet! They are working me up slowly from none to 6. I feel like I'm going to have to get one of those humongous pill sorters, with the day, morning, noon, and night just so I can stay on track.
I hate to be such a downer. That's not like me. This is just much harder than I imagined. After taking all my morning pills (I downed them with the fiber/energy drink, as it has a limey flavor that I'm growing to like), I was freezing (turned on the heat in the office and that gradually got better), but my hands were still shaky. In fact, I felt jittery all over. I found myself shaking my leg without even realizing it (a habit in others I sometimes find annoying), twisting in my chair, popping my knuckles, tossing my hair (it's been a good hair day--trust me!), chewing on my fingers (not normal anymore), and having a VERY short attention span. I couldn't concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes. Hence the first paragraph. Any time someone would call, come in, or email, I had the hardest time focusing on what they were communicating. I'm sure I came across as ditzy to more than one person because I just couldn't concentrate. I transposed numbers while on the phone. Not just once. Not just twice. Three times today. I got a slight headache around lunchtime, which made me realize I hadn't had my Morton lite salt today. I need to get a shaker to leave in my purse. Another thing to carry around.
I told these things to the manager at the center this afternoon and she immediately knew I'd taken all my pills with my energy drink. Did anyone tell me not to do that? Not anywhere I recall.
Pills are nasty. I want to take them with something that will hide the flavor. Pills must be taken with food. Boost needs to be taken about 3 hours either side of that. I'm having a hard time trying to figure out when to drink it then, because I know the drink will keep me up (now it's after midnight and I'm not at all sleepy), but I can't take it too close to the pills, which must be taken with breakfast, which needs to be early so that I can have a mid-morning snack, after which I shortly eat lunch (and take more pills) and after that point I feel it's too close to bedtime to drink it. I can not figure out when I need to do these things.
All in all, it's been a very confusing, slightly frustrating, interesting day. Everyone has told me the first 2 weeks are the hardest. I've got 1 day down. God, help me get through the rest.
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