Day 8

Day 8: 144.4 lbs
Total Lost: 6.6 lbs

As you can see, I lost quite a bit from yesterday! Even with cheating! Maybe it was all the water I drank, trying to make up for the fact that I cheated. Either way, I'm pretty excited about that! It was interesting, when I weighed myself at 4:00 am I was 145.2, then 3 hours later it was down even more! I hadn't changed anything, hadn't used the bathroom or changed clothes or anything. So that was fun! Or it's just my scale being inaccurate!

When I'm off this diet I'm totally going to have a warm, gooey brownie. I didn't appreciate them when I actually got to eat them, but totally do now. There are brownies over in the clinic to celebrate a birthday, and all I want to do is cheat! I mean, I cheated yesterday and still lost weight! But no, I can't think like that. Eventually all my cheating will probably cause the diet to stop working. At least I have steak with au jus to look forward to at lunch!

I'm pretty hungry today! I've already eaten my fruit. I had a grapefruit, never had one before, and it was so juicy and delicious! I hope that doesn't mean I have to suffer with hunger through the afternoon. Usually I like to wait as long as possible before eating, but just couldn't today. My skin is so dry! But I'm trying to stay away from lotions, except for my hands, because of the oils in it. I know there are HCG approved lotions, but I don't want to take any chances.

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And now what I really want is a Lofthouse cookie. I had steak for lunch, and a few bites of celery, and 2 Melba toast instead of one. I'm just not feeling the vegetables. I like cucumber, but since it's cold out, I want something warm. But cabbage hasn't gone over too well, not into onions much, not a fan of hot tomatoes (unless completely runny like in Campbells tomato soup), so that leaves asparagus. What I'd really like is potatoes. Nice warm mashed potatoes. Comfort food. With a side of corn, a roll, gravy, and breaded pan-fried chicken. Strouds would be great right about now!

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Tonight I made French onion soup. My husband loved it, and I didn't care for it at all. I guess I'm truly not into onions. I'm feeling really down about the vegetable thing. We have celery, cabbage, and asparagus here and I'm just not feeling any of it. So I had a can of green beans because I was so hungry! I guess I'll be eating cucumbers over and over. I know we aren't supposed to duplicate veggies, but I don't know what else I'll do. If I could have a salad dressing other than vinaigrette, which I do not care for, then I could have salad. And I would have tomato every night, but I am sensitive towards them. Eh, I'll keep looking at recipes and find something I like!