Day 1: Feeling good...ish.

Good night's sleep.  Woke up feeling good and excited about my food today, as it included my favourite salad for lunch (see below).  Anyway, I figured I needed something super delish to kick off the week.  Actually you should have something delish EVERY day, but I'm not that adventourous with my cooking so that will come in time.


Breakfast: The Muesli 97% sugar free muesli, with full fat milk.
YUM.  The coconot flakes in this make it absolutely sensational.  Not the full flavour punch that I'm used to, but I'm a toasted museli gal so it'll take some readjusting.  I ordered the two sample sachets (only $5 including postage - bargain!) and I'm really glad I did.  Ate it around 8am, and was hungry by 11am but I also know I'm used to eating quite a lot so I think after a couple of weeks my stomach and brain will realign and I won't be eating so much.  God, I hope so.

Snack:  Slice of Tasty cheese.
Mmm, cheese.  I only brought a small amount, which I'm regretting in case I get hungry later.  But I could definitely get used to snacking on cheese.

Lunch:  Roasted pumpkin and sweet potato with feta, spinach and pine nuts.
This salad is DELICIOUS.  Trust me.  I actually roasted these last week so they were cooked in yucky spray oil, but now I actually have coconut oil I look forward to roasting them again to see how the flavours change.  Unfortunately I was so hungry (well, my brain was... not my stomach) I ate lunch at 11:30am.  Ridiculous.  I look forward to breaking this hold that food has over me.

Snack:  6 Cruskits with Vegemite.
I love Cruskits, and was stoked to see they only had 3.9g of sugar per 100g so were on the 'thumbs up' list.  And I LOVE Vegemite.  I can eat it straight.  So this snack made me happy.  Except that it gave me instant reflux, but this happens with most meals when I'm overweight.

Dinner:  Steak Sandwich - thin beef steak with haloumi and tomatoes.
Kinda dull, but that's ok for now.  Regretted the bread, but that's a lesson.  As long as I've actually defrosted the meat I'm happy with this type of dinner.  Problem is that I ALWAYS forget to defrost the meat in the fridge during the day.  So then I would duck to the supermarket and undoubtedly end up with a dodgy dinner like frozen pizza or nachos.  I need to develop the habit of looking to the next day's food choices and prepare them the night before.

Dessert:  Half a sugar-free chocolate bar.
I wanted to save this for later in the week, but I had a single Tim Tam left in the fridge which was taunting me.  Instead of splurging (it's only the first day of my detox... no harm will be done, right?) I ate the sugar-free chocolate.  It's not the same, but it's certainly scratched the itch.  And I was able to throw the Tim Tam away.  Yes, I know.  It was hard for me too.

Exercise:  Body Attack class at the gym.
It almost killed me, I swear.  When the instructor says 'this will be a really hard class', she's not kidding around.  But I finished it and I sweated it out.
So how did I go today?  Ok, I think.  I'm expecting it to get harder this week, and I'm already thinking that this is a bit silly.  Orange juice has never looked so damn tempting.  I'm really hoping that I can stay strong and see this through.  Two weeks feels like a really, really long time.