Greetings and felicitations!

Welcome! I invite you to join me on my journey to better health and well-being. Believe me, if I can do this, so can you!

My promise to you is no preaching, no soapbox, no lectures. This is going to be about what worked well for me -- I will comment but that's it -- take what you will from that. I figure, the book doesn't preach, so why should I? Feel free to post questions or comments -- and pass along the link to anyone who you feel might be interested. The more, the merrier!

However, I am only human...expect the occasional foot-stamping tantrum when I want chocolate...

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Day 37 (Achieve Cycle Day 2)

Another great day!  I love the variety in the food lists now; it's nice to have options other than salad and veggies, though I have to say, I've developed a new respect for greens -- they're tasty and versatile, but they get pretty boring when you see so much of them every day for a month.  I didn't mind having one for dinner today because I had "fun" food for lunch (really that was a salad, too -- it was just packaged in an interesting way...)

Today's menu:
Breakfast -- 1 cup Kashi Go Lean Crunch, strawberries, 1 cup 1% milk, green tea, probiotic supplement
Morning Snack -- Granny Smith apple
Lunch -- whole wheat pita stuffed with lettuce, tomato, shredded cheddar cheese (not a lot because it wasn't low-fat), low-fat Italian dressing, 100 g Silhouette 0+ strawberry yogurt
Dinner -- Dr. Mike's amazing taco salad, green tea

The milk on the cereal, while wonderful and tasty, caused me some distress later in the day.  Dairy and I have a love/hate relationship as it is, and after having none for over a month, well, there's a lot of "hate" going on now...

The daughter baked chocolate cupcakes today -- homemade frosting, too.  I've managed to resist them so far -- made it past the 9:30 munchies hour with no cravings whatsoever.  Let's hope that continues...