Another day.....another diet

I booked our summer vacation last week and it has inspired me to start yet another diet!   Our vacation is going to be on Sanibel Island in June.  It just happens to coincide with my 32nd (ouch) birthday!  I wonder how that happened!  ha

So it's time to get in shape!   Time to lose those nasty 10lbs that have been hanging around since Cooper was 4 months old.  Yes, your math is correct - 7 years or so!  

I have to admit that the weight stayed off pretty well after the BPC. For the most part I kept off about 5lbs.  But then, as it usually does, my demented psyche got the best of me.  I was noticing that I could have a snack or two each night and not gain. So that lead to more and more "cheating" and don't you know those 5lbs came rushing back!  Why is weight loss so damn frustrating?

The new diet is called the GM diet. It was designed for General Motors back in the 80s.  It sounds pretty ridiculous but you have to understand, I NEED the structure of something like this diet. It tells me exactly what to eat every day for a week.  7 days of lots and lots of fruit and veggies.  Very little else.

Day 1 - Starting weight 136.8
Only fruit today!  ONLYfruit. Nothing else!  I was doing pretty well until about 4pm when I got a bit of a headache.  But I finished the night off strong with some pears from South Africa (YUM!) and some canned pineapple.  I felt pretty good for only eating fruit but my belly did look and feel very bloated.

Day 2 - 135.4
Only veggies today.  The diet recommends you start your day off with a baked potato.  Do you know how hard it is to choke down a baked potato at 7am?  I cheated a bit and had my chai tea K-cup with my baked potato.  The rest of the day went well.  We had lunch out for a coworker's birthday so I had a big house salad and some sweet potato fries (maybe 15 at most) I wasn't hungry at all until about 7pm and I really wanted something sweet!  I resisted!

Day 3 - 134.2
Veggies and fruit day.  Started off the day with a green monster.  We were headed to Cape May for the day so I made sure to pack a big salad for lunch and lots of fruit.  I did great until dinner.  We went to the Lobster House and although my intent was good - my dinner was not.  I ordered a crab salad thinking by the description it was a green salad with crab on top.  Yes, I know crab is not a fruit or a veggie but we were in Cape May!  It turns out it was a crab salad on ONE piece of lettuce.  Some carrots and tomatoes helped but I did polish off  the yummy crab salad (and a slice of their oh-so-good bread!)  OOPS!

Day 4 - 134.4
Banana and milk day.  Yes - only bananas and milk!  Back on track today after my derailment yesterday.  I a green tea for breakfast and wasn't even hungry for a banana until about 10am.  I had two!  And a big glass of milk.  For lunch I had two more bananas and lots of water. Dinner was a very tasty banana milkshake!  Cooper even stole some of it for his dessert! Another big glass of milk and another banana for snack and I was good.  I even resisted Cooper's cupcake after lunch and donut after dinner.  (I know, bad parenting but he is a skinny mini!)
PS - I made the "wonder soup" and it made my whole house smell like onions (or B.O.!)  eww.  I kept some in the fridge just in case I was starving but most of it went right to the trash.  Outside trash of course!

Day 5 - 133.6
Today is tomatoes and beef day.  Eww right?  What do you eat for breakfast?  Tea!  That's what I had since I could not stomach either tomatoes or ground beef for breakfast!   The rest of the day I was not hungry at all.  I forced myself to eat 3 tomatoes for lunch (with some oil & vinegar) and a grilled lean hamburger.  Dinner was a nice steak and more (ugh MORE) tomatoes.  Who can physically eat 6 tomatoes in one day?  I gagged down 5!

Day 6 - 132.6
Back to veggies and beef day.  Or so it was supposed to be.  I went to a business lunch and had the inside of a steak sandwich and a salad.  Ok and two pieces of calamari.  But then I realized the salad dressing probably wasn't alright and the steak sandwich had provolone.  Oops!   For dinner I reverted to a nice salad and carrots.

Day 7 - 132.4
Fruit juice, veggies and brown rice.  Again - not so much!  I had tea for breakfast.  Apple juice and veggies & dip (teeny bit of dip) for lunch and then more baby carrots and apple juice for dinner (on the run).  Not exactly following the rules but I wasn't hungry so I didn't eat!

Final weigh in following Day 7 - 131.4
WOOOOOO HOOOO!!!!!!  I lost 5.4lbs in 7 days!   Again, WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!

I decided to take today (Wednesday) off from the "diet" and start the GM diet tomorrow again!  I LOVE this diet!!!!  Until I find another one that is........3-day diet anyone?

Follow up from BPC

I've been asked a few times how the BPC ended and how I've been feeling, eating and doing since - so here's the update.   Following the cleanse my goal was to eat "clean" which in my mind means the famous mantra:

dont' eat it IF IT DOESN'T COME FROM THE GROUND OR HAVE A MOTHER

Well that was quickly out the window as our Friday sushi at work became a spur-of-the-moment (i.e. intentional way to vandalize my BPC success) trip to hibachi!   I LOVE hibachi!   I was pretty cautious of the volume I ate though - more out of fear that I would be severely punished for eating "real" solid food so quickly after being only on a juice cleanse.   I am happy to report there were no negative side effects to my hibachi lunch and I was still well within my calorie goal for the day.

The weekend continued with lots of fruits and veggies.  I even managed to obstain from drinking at a family birthday party (full disclosure: I did have cake though - who can resist chocolate cake with peanut butter icing?  Not this girl!)  As we were leaving the party Cooper came down with a stomach virus that left us housebound and him couch ridden all day Sunday and most of Monday.

I had to run to the office on Monday even though I had taken the day off to stay home with Coop for President's Day.  After our errands all around town we went to the diner for dinner.  I opted for a spinach salad with hot bacon dressing.  YUM!   Coop wasn't feeling well again so he barely ate.  And then....it happened.  I came down with the stomach virus at 2am Tuesday morning.

It. was. awful!

I'm pretty sure what we both had was some version of the ever popular NOROVIRUS!   I do not wish this stomach bug on my worst enemy.  I was supposed to fly to California on Tuesday but moving from the bathroom was physically impossible (let alone being in a window seat on a six hour plane ride).  So California was cancelled.

The virus lasted a good 48 hours and I swear to you I think I am still feeling the affects today.  My stomach has been one big pit of acid reflux ever since.  And other (unmentionable) side effects.  Some say it was the cleanse, but I am going to blame the virus.  I don't think even a juice cleanse could cause this much havoc on my insides!

So whether the cleanse was to fault or not, I'll never know!  But I doubt it.  Irregardless, a combination of the BPC and the virus kept me down 5 of the 7lbs I had lost during the cleanse.  

This week was a bit of a challenge in regards to my food intake.  Let's just say there was a very unpretty binge after realizing a size 4 dress fit well with room to spare.  Yes, I know this is backwards logic (the dress fits - yay - I'll go binge eat ?!?  huh?)  but that is why I have a problem with dieting and food and weight!   My brain is backwards!

But ....two weeks out of the BPC and I am still 5lbs lighter than I started.  For that I say THANK YOU BPC!!!!!

Would I do it again?  Probably - but only if I had a wedding or function that I needed to quickly get a flat belly for.  Oh wait - I do have a wedding this weekend.  If only I could afford to do it again - I definitely would!  Green juice and all!