Starting Today - few ?'s
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| Mon, 05-03-2004 - 12:56pm |
I'm not as prepared as I should be today -- but I started off with a hard boiled egg this morning for breakfast, with coffee w/skim milk. (I have read that I should have 1/2 cup of veggies in the morning too -- but I will be sure to make up for that during the day today). I don't have anything for snacks yet (going shopping tonight!) but I will have a salad for lunch w/turkey or chicken on it. I hope I can get through this afternoon without breaking down for a cookie (we have home-made cookies at lunch every day here at work - served in a big basket, hot out of the oven....this is going to take some incredible willpower!!!)
Anyway, thanks for any help/suggestions. I am going to search through these messages and see if people have posted their daily menus -- I need some good ideas to get through the next 2 weeks so I don't dive into that cookie basket! :-)

Hi and Welcome!
You've received wonderful advice so far!
Susan :)
One thing I noticed -- I had to get up 2ce in the night to pee! And I really didn't drink a whole lot of water yesterday (I do plan on upping my water). But I found that to be very strange. Does that normally happen? Maybe that's part of the "detox"?
So far, so good...but I know for a fact that my carb cravings are still with me and going strong. Even walking by the bakery aisle last night in the grocery store -- I had to hold myself back. I REALLY wanted to say the heck with it and dive into a Creme Pie. I have a MAJOR sweet tooth - more so than I really realized. I made some of that Ricotta cheese dessert, but I have to put a LOT of sugar substitute in it to curb my cravings (I use Splenda or Stevia). Do the sugar cravings eventually go away too? I honestly can't imagine that. I've been a sweet-a-holic for as long as I can remember!!
Hi!
I had a bit of a different experience than most. I normally (pre-SB) craved potato chips, hickory sticks, cheese curls, and other savory snacks. I rarely reached for the sweet stuff, and never felt deprived if I passed over the doughnuts and stuff at work. But on SB, I never craved chips. Instead, I was dying for something sweet! I can only guess at why, but I think it's because I was eating a lot of hidden sugar in my processed foods (i.e. corn syrup in my spaghetti sauce - gross!), and my system missed it once it was gone.
Also, my cravings weren't bad the first week of Phase 1. They didn't happen until Phase 2, and when they hit, it was with a vengeance.
The best advice I can give to you is plan your meals and snacks ahead of time, and don't skip any of the snacks. If I was late with a snack, I got the worst cravings for junk, but as long as I ate regularly, I was okay.
Good luck - you can do it!
Cheers,
Holli