Wednesday Check In - Day # 3

My goodness! Wednesday already! I warned my husband yesterday that today could be bad because it always seems that third day of a campaign to rid my body of sugar and (most) caffeine is always pretty close to Hell! Trust me ... I don't use that term lightly. On Day # 3 I usually have a wicked headache, nausea, and grumpiness to spare! So far today I'm doing alright but the day isn't over yet! :)

I have been staying off my scale since my weigh in on Monday morning so I cannot give you a minute by minute update on what the scale is saying. I also cannot tell you that my clothes are hanging on me, or falling off me, but this is only Day #3! I may get on the scale tomorrow morning because I have an appointment with Dr. Morgan tomorrow and I don't know if her scale goes over 350. If there is anything on earth more humiliating than being unable to weigh on a doctor's scale, because you are too fat, I don't know what it might be! Public nudity might top it (yeah ... pretty sure it would) but not by much!

I made a chocolate banana smoothie for breakfast this morning. It was good but not earth shatteringly wonderful. I prefer the ones that I make with strawberries and raspberries! Yum!

I'm drinking LOTS of water (and freezing to death) and very little Coke Zero. I was allowing myself 2 bottles a day this week but so far I have limited myself to just one. And the one I drank yesterday afternoon didn't even taste very good. I may kick caffeine to the curb more easily than I thought I would! But if I keep drinking this much cold water (which I fully intend to do) I may have to start fighting back against the air conditioning in my office by using my (illegal) space heater!

My calorie deficit goal for the weight loss program I am engaging in at the moment is 1500 calories. In other words if I eat 1500 calories less than I burn I should theoretically average 3 pounds a week of weight loss. We'll see how it goes. Day 1 I had a deficit of 1804 calories. Yesterday, Day 2, I had a deficit of 1672. And today? Well ... that remains to be seen! In the meantime I am becoming nauseous because my stomach is so empty! I will be glad when it does that shrinking to a smaller size thing!

You will be glad to know that I packed my swimsuit, etc. into my bright pink Reebok duffel bag and brought it with me so I can keep my commitment and go to Water Aerobics after work. I KNOW I will enjoy it as I thoroughly did so on Monday but at the moment I would strongly prefer to go home and curl up in my recliner with a big bowl of cookies and cream ice cream!

Yeah it's Day 3! And did I mention a tendency to be just a bit grumpy?