Day 23: Lemon, Lime, Honey, Whites and Fat

Day 23: Plan--2 proteins, 4 veggies, 1 fruit, 1 starch, 2 "snacks" (S4L protein-filled supplements), 1 fat, 4 oz. skim milk

Breakfast: 10:00 am--supplements (1 vitamin, 1 lipocell, 1 neuroslim, as well as my normal glucosamine/chondroitin, vitamin C, and calcium chews) apple
Snack: 11:30 pm--S4L wild berry drink
Lunch: 12:15 pm--supplements (1 lipocell, 1 carb blocker) romaine, cucumber, ff ranch, marinated turkey
Snack: 3:30 pm--S4L chocolate mint bar
Dinner: 7:30 pm--supplements (9 fish oil, 1 lipocell) ground turkey sautéed with green onions and rice, stuffed in a green pepper with light MW and ketchup
Water: 100 oz water with lemon juice

The title of this post is indicative of my evening last night. If it sounds gross, it is.

I hate to get to the end of the day (and my food allotment) and realize that I have not had my fat. This happened to me yesterday, and I was against eating a full tablespoon of Miracle Whip (my childhood me was incredulous--it's MW Light this time though) or a tablespoon of non-butter. Egg whites do not count against me, so I chose to make a few tablespoons of eggs in a skillet with a portion of Fleishman's as the non-stick coating. Well, I wish I had taken photos (not that I want to remember but so that you can see what I put myself through) of the egg finally cooking in its marinade of fat, because you would not believe how unappetizing that was. I don't do runny eggs. They make me gag. So waiting almost 3 times as long for egg whites to cook yesterday was nearly excruciating, especially when it was so fluffy and runny that I couldn't tell if they were cooked or not. I finally decided to brave it and flip the egg, and thankfully, did not splash fat all over my front as I did it. I ended up eating the concoction, and it reminded me very vividly of the eggs on an egg mcmuffin--cause for me to never eat one of those again...

The lemon in the title is my punishment for eating something delicious on Monday. I must use the lemon as a diuretic for another day to hopefully lose all the water weight from the extra sodium I had at Houston's. I don't mind lemon; in fact, I usually ask for lemon with my water at restaurants. What I don't care for is the concentration of it in the water I drink. Every gulp is bitter and when I take my vitamins with it, it gives me chills.

I have also started (unbeknownst to S4L--shhh, don't tell!) a remedy for my scratchy throat and painful cough that I learned from my Costa Rican friend at work. I take a couple of tablespoons of honey and squeeze a lime over it (I use half a lime--that's plenty of juice), stick it in the microwave for 45 seconds, and drink it. It has helped a tremendous amount, especially in the evenings, when my cough would be the worst. I haven't told them because I think they would tell me not to eat honey, but it's a natural sweetener, it's soothing, and I'm not going to drink lemon water because I had 2 tablespoons of it. If that is my detriment, so be it!

Other than that, things are going quite well. I gained another couple of pounds after our fantastic meal on Monday, but I went in today and already lost 2 of them. I figure that 3 weeks in and 1/4 of the way to goal is a fairly good pace and I don't need to be so worried. We (I should say, "my hubby"--he's been off all week and is therefore doing the cooking) are trying new recipes and the shredded chicken that he made for taco salad last night was quite delicious. The stuffed peppers tonight were a little trying (boiled green peppers are a little soggy), but the flavor was great. He's getting the hang of how to cook healthy, which was a huge motivation for this, and I'm finding things I enjoy.

Three weeks later and still going strong. I think I can do this.