As the prophecy foretold I've been on a diet for a week already. It's honestly been easier that I expected. Something I realized when I was preparing this diet myself was that when you eat low calories food you can actually eat SO MUCH. Like portions are not small at all. In total, any given plate, may it be either for lunch or dinner, is about 0.5kg. I can eat two of those a day, plus breakfast and three snacks and still keep under 1100-1200kcal count. To put it into perspective, the same amount of my favourite chocolate has a total of 2810kcal. I mean, it's not like I've ever had just half a kilo of chocolate for lunch but in November I may have eaten that much chocolate during any given week. That would be the same as eating a pack of popcorn every single day... or several kilos of most fruits and vegetables.
On the other hand, the first 2-3 days I wasn't super strict because we were moving from one city to another and we already had some food prepared so I focused on breakfasts and snacks. I don't know if this kind of slow transition has helped me stay focused or not. Actually I haven't been too strict in general, as I've done plenty of strict diets before and none of them ended well. I'm just trying to focus on every single meal as an individual thing and that's making things easier for me.
The biggest change has to be my grocery's list. I'm buying so much and so many fresh products that only last for a week or less. Anyways, as I said before I can eat quite generous portions so at least nothing is getting spoiled. It's just gone in a couple of days.
I've also had to completely give up exercising for now. I tried rearranging my schedule numerous times and nothing seems to work for me. Exercising first thing every morning helped me start my days feeling quite active but considering I got that extra time by cutting my sleeping hours it wasn't sustainable. I'm trying to make sleeping a priority. For the last months I've always been tired, with constant headaches and in poor mood most days until I realized that I was sleeping 5-6 hours, which isn't enough for me. I'm also starting to accept that sleeping is more important than always getting everything perfectly done in a daily manner. Accepting this has been quite hard, as I see it as a failure, but I've put my health at risk before for not taking good care of my sleeping habits and I'm not planning on doing it again.
Last, but not least, I must confess I was a bit naughty and weighed myself when I was only 4 days into the diet. I know I shouldn't have but I was really curious and I'm glad I did it. You'll see why in just a second.
This week I lost a little over 3.5kg. This is amazing. It's so amazing that it's actually unbelievable... and that's exactly the reason I'm glad I got on the scale halfway through it. I supposedly lost 3.5kg between Saturday and Tuesday. That'd only been possible by being seriously ill, which I wasn't. It got me thinking and the most plausible conclusion is that due to a recent change (more like a fffff up from me, but whatever because I can't get it sorted out until next week) in my meds my hormones have been acting up. I'll count it as a 1kg weight loss. I still find it pretty nice as I'm not overly strict with my diet (I'm following the recommended amounts and even a little under them but I'm not counting my calories nor doing the exact protein rotation because it's not practical for me at this time) and, most importantly, it's completely realistic!
As always, thanks for reading.
