[JL] Day Two: Reality Hits...
Difficult. This is very difficult. The only thing keeping me going, really, is the promise of weight loss (and the fact that we are taking a family photo in a few weeks and I'd like to pride myself in having it as little photoshopped as possible...).
Lunch today was a grapefruit, 1/3 cup of plain oatmeal, 2 hard boiled eggs, and my tea instead of coffee. I felt pretty okay until around 5:30pm when hunger struck and all I could think about was every delicious thing I won't be able to eat for at least another 12 days (cheez-its, ice cream, oreos, junk food in general, real food, anything with flavor).
Dinner was a "200g beef steak and a lettuce & cucumber salad" but without steak in the house, I just cooked up some beef we had already. The diet allows you to only steam or bake your meat and let me tell you... it was not enjoyable finding out what steamed red meat tastes like.
Dinner was also supposed to include a cup of black coffee, but I nixed it because my body can't handle that much caffeine, especially at night. They allow you to garnish your "salads" with vinegar or lemon juice, so I opted for balsamic vinegar in my salad and used the little bit left over in my salad bowl to flavor up the steamed meat.
^ Apologies for some of the items being half-eaten. (I promise I gave myself more than pictured...) I was just so damn hungry that I started eating before remembering to take the photo. Granted, I don't think you're that curious as to what my meals look like, given what's on my menu.
I should have mentioned that my sister and I are doing this diet together at home. It's a good thing I have someone physically next to me going through it and to keep each other in check, because I absolutely would have given up by now. We cheated a little after dinner-- each had a 20 calorie unflavored barley rice cracker, just so we could feel a little fuller. It helped a ton and I realized after talking with JW that with this sort of diet, I'll allow myself little compromises to maintain my sanity. I may be a Korean girl on the outside, but this tummy is home-grown American and it likes to be fed. A lot.
The Denmark diet is definitely draining, energy-wise. My workout was a bit more sluggish today and I'm just going to have to lighten the workouts up since I'm not really taking in much in the first place. Running is proving difficult with all the impact, so I'm considering switching over to ellipticalling the next several days until my stomach shrinks and semi-acclimates to this new level of food.
2 days down, 11 more to go. Charging (slowly...) forward.
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Mind and body have caught up with each other...
Falling asleep last night was particularly difficult-- I'm not sure if it was the hunger or the fact that I had two cups of coffee, when my body is used to only a tiny bit of caffeine.
I woke up this morning realizing that I may need to make a few tweaks here and there so that I don't go insane the next 12 days. Breakfast this morning was the directed eggs and grapefruit and coffee, but I did add an egg (2 total instead of 1) because I'm only eating the whites.
I'll be out of the house for lunch so I'm packing the grapefruit, 2 allotted hard boiled eggs, and 1/3 [dry] cup of oatmeal. I've decided to swap in unflavored/"ungarnished" Quaker oatmeal for some of the banana/toast portions the next couple of weeks and black tea instead of one of the coffees. Coffees will be drank during the meal prior to my workouts, which is breakfast for today. I don't want my body to even adjust to being able to sleep after 2 cups of coffee.
Sorry for the TMI-- but the oatmeal was swapped in for digestive/bathroom's sake.Given the stark number of calories this diet lets you take in and the kinds of foods on it, my body needs a little help with ... "movement." 1/3 cup of oatmeal should be about 100-120 calories, which is a fair trade for a banana or slice of toast, and in my experience, much more fibrous.
The uphill battle has started!!!
