Day one of 500 Calories

This picture was taken this morning. I figure that you're not supposed to smile in the before picture. You're also supposed to wear ugly baggy clothes but I felt like I'd see my progress better if I wore more form fitted clothes.

The 2 gorge days are easy. The first night I made fettuccini alfredo (delish!) and had leftovers for lunch the next day. Last night I ate at Chinese Buffet with my cousin Kevin. Unfortunately, I could only finish 2 plates. I'd gotten to the point last week where I felt like I had to eat all my favorites one last time but each time it would just give me a tummy ache to the point where I never wanted to eat something so fatty again. I had to press on for the sake of science though and later Kevin and I went out for ice cream. I made a pretty good attempt and ate about half of it but anyone who has been to Leatherby's knows their servings are enormous! It was a good way to end my binge day though because it was the last thing I got to eat "one last time".

Today I woke up not feeling too bad aside from the fact that I woke up with a sore throat. My main plan is when I feel I'm too hungry, I drink at least 12 oz of water. I also have hoodia which is an appetite suppressant to be used if I just can't take the hunger pains anymore. I've never tried it before so we'll see if it actually works for me. I decided to purchase fun foods so I'm going to grill up a lean steak for lunch. I also got some halibut and then of course there is always the chicken breast standby. I have tons of salad greens that I'm going to make up so I can just grab a handful for when I run to work.

I'm looking into using a specific dressing that my sister Alisa used while on her HCG diet. It's from a company called Walden farms. It looks like they have all sorts of products like syrups, jams and salad dressings. Their tag line: "No calories, fat, carbs, gluten or sugars of any kind!" What I really would like to do is look at the ingredient list which they don't seem to have online so I will have to take a field trip to the store later today to see if all the ingredients are approved. It will be nice to have something to flavor my salads. I'm not a huge salad eater to begin with so this will definitely help.

234.2 lbs