Night 2 was horrible, horrible, horrible

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Night 2 was horrible, horrible, horrible
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Fri, 03-05-2004 - 9:58am
I had intense cravings for everything except protein and veggies. Of course!

I had gone to a mini-mart after work to pick up our dry cleaning and a toothbrush and it was awful. Everywhere there was easter candy. Everywhere there were cookies. Tons of ice cream. Carrot cake.

I made it through that ok, came home and DH had made me a lean dinner (fajitas without the tortilla - weird). My friend (who's staying with us for a few days) says the kids might not be so hungry because they just ate a jelly doughnut. A JELLY DOUGHNUT!!!! I WANT A JELLY DOUGHNUT!!!!!! Then my friend and I went shopping...to OfficeMax, where there were cookies right where you walk in!! (snack bags of oreos, which are of course my FAVORITE COOKIE). We went to another couple of stores and ended up at target, where my cravings were getting even worse. It was really awful. I was soooooo craving ANYTHING sweet.

The good thing is that this is teaching me exactly how bad I am. I probably would've gotten something at the minimart earlier, and then again at Target. I'm very proud of myself for making it through that, but jeez. I still can't stop thinking about it. When I woke up this morning, I was starving. I ate a hard boiled egg and I'm snacking on raw green peppers. Disgusting. LOL. ALL I WANT IS A DOUGHNUT!!!

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Fri, 03-05-2004 - 12:13pm
You did soooo great! It's incredibly hard to go anywhere where there isn't tons of temptation. And the "experts" wonder why there's an epidemic of obesity!! I remember walking up a street (in NYC) with bakeries, candy shops, ice cream stores on both sides of the street, with all their sweet stuff in the windows...it was so painful. The good news, is that after about 1 week on this diet these things just didn't call to me the way they usually did, and I feel so much more in control. I remember going to a brunch around day 9 and being faced with a table full of coffee cake and cookies (my favorites) and I could actually stand next to the table and talk (to another SBDer - you find them everywhere) without much thought for the food. Hang in there, it will feel so good when you walk in a store and look at that snack pack of oreos and think how a week ago you were dying for one, and now you could just walk by them, wanting them a little, but not much. I've been on SBD for 2 months and I'm very happy with it. I've lost 10 pounds which is fine with me, though other people who started when I did have lost much more (see the posts in chit chat about January 5th starters). Anyway, you're doing incredibly well and I promise it will get easier and you'll feel great!

-Polly

p.s. You can make it easier for yourself by eating a little more, I don't think 1 hard boiled egg and raw veggies is enough for breakfast. How about making those quiche cups and having them with some Canadian bacon, with tomatoes on the side (I find it's important to fill up my plate with something). Certain foods really helped me stay with phase 1 - the nuts were essential, the fudgesicle, low fat cheese and I happen to really like ricotta cheese which is lucky, I think it's a real treat with or without Splenda, but it's not for everyone. One final thought - it's not that you're bad for having these cravings - it's bad that we live in a society that promotes eating unhealthy foods that are overprocessed, filled with sugar (because it's cheap and makes us want to eat more and moe)

and with trans fats (?) that stick to your arteries. And to add insult to injury, fills our magazines and TVs with ultra thin women who are supposed to be the ideal. Yuch!
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Fri, 03-05-2004 - 12:31pm
Thank you for the encouragement!

I'm not a breakfast person. The egg and peppers was enough to make me not very hungry. The thought of quiche and canadian bacon for breakfast makes me sick. If I can get myself liking cottage cheese, I'll have cottage cheese and veggies for breakfast along with the egg. I really can only eat the one hard boiled egg - two will make me sick, and I can't have a mushy fried or poached or scrambled egg for breakfast.

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Fri, 03-05-2004 - 3:49pm
If you can stand vanilla lowfat no sugar added yogurt, you can have that with your egg and veggies for breakfast as well. You CAN have another egg if you need to with your breakfast. I sometimes have a lowfat cheese stick with my eggs for breakfast. I honestly found that my cravings go away if I eat a good breakfast. The rest of the snacks and meals don't help me feel full and resist cravings at all if I didn't get a good breakfast!
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Fri, 03-05-2004 - 3:56pm

Woohoo

Susan :)

 

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Fri, 03-05-2004 - 6:19pm
My test was a candy dish I had to pass by at work. The first week I made a detour so I wouldn't even see it. My mind would say- oh, one little piece won't hurt. (I didn't listen) Second week I noticed it but no cravings. After that, it wasn't even on my radar!

Yippie!

Sally