Day 2 - A Sleepy Day

I was sleepy all day today.  I don't know if it has anything to do with what I'm eating or not because I've been going to sleep really late.  I was expecting my energy level to fall in the first few days because I'm eating less carbs, but I can't say my energy was low, I just felt sleepy.  So of course I took a long nap and now I feel better.

This morning I cooked up a pot of oatmeal and had it with 1/2 cup soy milk and the strawberries I picked yesterday.  It was delicious even though I didn't add any additional sweetener.  I am using a vanilla flavored soy milk and that has enough sugar in it already.  The serving size is generous, and I realized I miscalculated the cost.  It's actually only 8 cents a serving, not 16 cents, so suddenly I have some extra money.

By mid morning, I could feel my blood sugar falling.  This seems to happen to me when I eat oatmeal.  People say it's supposed to stick to your ribs, but it doesn't seem to work like that for me.  I needed to have a snack so I had a hard boiled egg, an orange and an apple.  I hasn't hungry, but was eating to bring my blood sugar back up and also I think I was eating because I felt so sleepy and was hoping it would wake me up.

Overall, I don't feel hungry at all.  I don't have any cravings for anything and am eating just to make sure I have enough calories for the day.

For lunch, I had a half cup of rice with 1/4 avocado.  I just mixed them together and ate them like that.  I was planning to have a fried egg with it, but since I had the hard boiled egg earlier, I didn't feel like having another.

For dinner I cooked up a chicken pasta stir fry with 1/2 cup brown rice.  It's made with chicken breast meat (cut from the whole chicken), onions, spaghetti noodles and whatever veggies I have on hand.  Today it was green beans, daikon, broccoli and zucchini. I just used a bit of soy sauce for flavoring.  I made enough for 2 days so I don't have to cook again tomorrow.  If I was hungrier I would have added more veggies.  

And yes, I am cooking my husband's meals separately.  For breakfast he had Portuguese sausage, white rice and eggs over-easy.  For dinner he had Chicken Maison, but I served it with fried potatoes and boiled green beans.

I was at garden #2 today and I can't wait for the tomatoes to ripen.  It looks like they are another 7 to 10 days away.  I want to put them in the soup and eat them with the burritos I'm having later.  I might be able to make some salsa too if those peppers hurry up.

DAY 2

Breakfast

Oatmeal

Soy Milk

Strawberries

Snack

hard boiled egg

orange

apple

Lunch

1/2 cup brown rice

1/4 avocado

Dinner

Chicken Pasta Stir Fry

Brown Rice

Calories:  1170

Cost: 81 cents

  

What do you expect?

I think what my friends expect from this experiment is different from what I expect.

So I'll jot down my expectations and compare them to the end results.

Firstly, I don't expect to be that hungry.  Yes, maybe in the first few days I'm going to miss some of the junk food, but as long as I'm eating protein and drinking a lot of water, and getting fiber from the whole foods I'm eating,  I think it'll keep my blood sugar under control, so I don't expect to get really hungry.

I don't think I'll miss coffee and tea. 

I think my energy level is going to fall especially in the first week because I'm going to be eating a lot less carbs.  My body is probably going to do a detox in the first couple of weeks and I'll feel sluggish from the poisons releasing and exiting my body.  I'm hoping near the end of the month, my energy level will pick up after it adjusts to the new diet.

I expect I'll lose some weight.  If I lose 5 pounds I will be pretty happy.

I think I'm going to be more conscious of the food I eat.  Each bite is going to taste extra good and when meal time comes I'll actually be hungry.  Right now, I eat for entertainment and at mealtimes, I'll eat even if I'm not hungry.

My garden is obviously going to be well utilized.  Vegetables are not going to be wasted and I will have to be creative in how I prepare them.  I am going to feel so thankful for them.

I expect I'll be cooking some things in advance and keeping them in portions in the fridge.  It just makes sense to cook the rice for instance, a weeks worth at a time.  I expect that cooking is going to be at a minimum for myself.  I will still be preparing regular meals for my husband too.

I don't know how much I spend on food currently, but I'm thinking I'll save around $300 over the month simply because I won't be eating out or buying prepared food.

So that's about all I can think of at the moment.

The start date is now just a few days away...