Day 3 - Breakfast

So this is the first day of the "Active Diet," as it's called. I basically am on the Active Diet until three days after the drops run out. For breakfast, I hard-boiled three eggs and removed the yolks (can't eat those, unfortunately). So I had three egg whites, half a banana, and a large cup of tea. Thankfully, unsweetened tea is unlimited, although I can only have one teaspoon of skim milk a day, so it's really not even worth doing. I'm fine with plain old tea. Artificial sweeteners are allowed, but those pretty much taste like death, so I think I'll avoid those too.

Surprisingly, I feel fairly full. I think it was the tea that did it. I must remember this if I ever get hungry in between meals. Also, sugar free gum is allowed. I will most likely be chewing A LOT of gum.

I also drank a glass of water with breakfast, to take my multivitamins. You need...I can't remember off the top of my head how much of each...but you need to take potassium and a multivitamin that has at least a certain amount of magnesium every day. Also, you have to drink at least 2 quarts of liquid a day.

OH, and also, skim cottage cheese can be eaten every 3-4 days in place of a meat serving! I nearly died of happiness when I read that. Sure, it's only 3 1/2 ounces, but I'm so happy I can have an occasional serving of dairy! I'm a dairy fiend. It runs in the family. We're all obsessed with cottage cheese.

Last night I felt like my life was ending. I stuffed myself so much with all the things I knew I'd miss that I felt sick and had to sleep on my back...and I sleep horribly on my back. I called my fiancé this morning and had him call me back because I was too sleepy to get up and sit in my computer chair. I've totally had the wrong attitude about this whole diet, and I'm trying really hard to change my mind about it, because I need to be healthy. I hope that once I see the pounds start coming off (my mom lost 9 pounds the first week), I'll feel like it's all worth it. I don't think I've ever seen my mom so happy before, and she's still on the active diet for a couple more weeks.

(Unless our new scale is off, I gained 4 pounds during the loading diet. They said not to worry about that though, because you'll lose it right away during the active diet anyway. But still. Piggy! ;_;)