Day 4

So I'm on day 4. Tomorrow I'm finally going to weigh myself and hopefully I'll at least not entirely hate the number on the scale but I'm scared nonetheless! But I need to start tracking my weight and weighing myself once a week so I might as well start.

My calorie intake for the week has been decent:

day 1 - 844
day 2 - 1253
day 3 - 1120

Today I'm at 600 so far, but I still have dinner to eat and a snack later. And I'm drinking 8-10 glasses of water a day. The 17 day diet wants you to drink 3 glasses of green tea as well. I had started doing that but I've been having such trouble sleeping lately that I've stopped just to see if the green tea was the problem. I'll probably start again next week but lower my intake to just one cup per day and not after noon or something like that.

I am so ready for the first 17 days to be over so I can eat potatoes, haha. I miss potatoes sooo much! But I understand not eating carbs because it kickstarts the whole thing and helps you detox. So I know it's a good idea but I'll just be so happy when it's over! I don't know if I could ever be a vegetarian. I absolutely love certain vegetables but eating so many of them every single day becomes boring!

I haven't been working out too much lately. It's been raining and I haven't been able to ride my bike to work or walk yet. It's also caused me to not be able to go for any runs. Today is beautiful and I wanted to work out but I had designated Wednesday as a rest day and plus my head is just pounding. Just my luck! So I've compromised and just done yoga. I found this yoga book called "Slim Calm Sexy Yoga" and I love it. Some of the moves are so advanced and I doubt I'll EVER be able to do them but there are some I'm going to work up to. Plus it gave a 5-minute metabolism boosting routine for the morning which I'm going to try out. And it has yoga to help headaches, carpal tunnel and insomnia. I did the carpal tunnel one yesterday and it made my wrists feel so good. I'm going to try the headache one in a bit to see if it'll help my headaches because it'll just be such a relief to finally find something to help my head. I plan on doing quite a bit of yoga, and hopefully when the weather gets better, to start running.

I've also decided I'm going to write the October LSAT. So I'm taking about a week off from studying then getting back to it at a more leisurely pace. I feel so much better knowing I don't have a huge test to write in June. And I'll have the chance this summer to work up to a 165 or so on the LSAT (higher would be better but I'm being realistic!). This also gives me more time to just get into a routine of eating healthy and working out and falling into a schedule.

I think that's pretty much all I have right now. I found a fantastic low-carb, low-sugar blog with tons of recipes that I'm planning to try out soon so I'll report back if I find any delicious recipes. And I also bought slimfast bars today just in case I ever have a craving for a snack (I promised I wouldn't eat one more than a few times a week - hopefully 2 or less a week!) and the flavour I bought was chocolate chip cookie dough, haha. I'm super excited. It'll be good to have for me because my blood sugar gets really low sometime and the fruit I'm eating is lower sugar fruits so those don't always help. Plus if I indulge once in a while it's not so bad, as long as I stay within my calorie count. Anyways that's all for now. It's going well and I'm feeling healthier (minus the headaches still! Maybe those will disappear once I start losing weight....) but definitely still craving taco bell. :P

-Monica

PS. Amanda.... if I find out you ordered poutine..... ;P