Strawberry Soy Shake - 9:20 AM

I've discovered that the Strawberry shakes taste almost identical to the tooth polishing paste they use at the dentist when you're at the end of your cleaning, gritty grits and all. Tantalizing.

Black coffee with equal and 3 TBS NF milk 

8 oz water

32 oz water

Soy Shake - 11:50 AM

16 oz water

Lunch meal thing - 12:55 PM
2 cups Organic mixed greens
1/2 cup low fat cottage cheese - 90 calories, 2 grams fat, 15 grams protein
red wine vinigar splashed over the greens

32 oz water

Mint Soy Shake - 3:20 PM

32 oz water

Lean & Green - 6:25 PM
3 oz chicken breast - 20 grams protein, 120 calories
1/8 cup salsa - 20 calories
1 tbs LF sour cream - 2 grams fat, 20 calories
2 cups Organic Mixed greens
sauted onions and green peppers - free veggies

Shake - 8:35 AM. 

Now to find the coffee...

*edit* I never found it >:[ I'm making a pot now, at 3:00 PM instead. 

Here's todays consumption after 8:30 AM:

Water 32 oz

Shake - 10:30 AM

Water 32 oz

Shake - 12:30 PM

Water 16 oz

Alternate Meal instead of another shake - 2:45 PM

2-3 cups Organic leafy greens
3 oz tuna. 40 grams of protein, 2 grams of fat, 120 calories. 
20 salad spritzer squirts. 40 calories 2 grams fat. 

Now it's time for thick, black, liquid caffeine. Mmm-hmm. 

Coffee, 1 1/2 cups + Water 16 oz

High protein hot coco - 5:40 PM 

Lean & Green - 
3 oz chicken breast. 20 grams protein, 1 gram fat, 120 calories.
1/2 cup sauteed green beans with balsamic vinegar, garlic and 1/4 tsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil. 

Water - 16 oz
2 chicken bullion cubes - 10 calories (I'm supposed to drink the flippin' things to keep my sodium levels up, since 99.9% of the diet is super lowwww sodium. Mmm hot salt water!)

Last night Lauren saw a nutritionist who specializes in healthy weight-loss. Due to her large size (Hello WEIGHT GAIN!) the doctor recommended a VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet) for Lauren which is similar to the Medifast diet but allows for more...shall we say, choices?  

I'm allowed to all sorts of meat, egg whites and a limited amount of le yolks, low fat dairy products, unlimited leafy greens (lettuce baby, lettuce) most low carb vegetables (cabbage, cucumbers, green beans, celery, broccoli, beats, zucchini, sprouts, some squashes, bok choy, blah blah blah) am supposed to have 20-25 grams of unsaturated fat per day (think vegetable oil, olive oil, 1/8 cup of almonds, 1/4 of an avocado, etc.) and 100-120 grams of protein. 

I decided to start out doing a "half meal replacement/half real food you can chew diet" since I thought it would be a somewhat easy transition and since I really want to see some flippin' results. I'm going to do my best to stick to my guns and *hopefully* unstick some of this charming substance called "blubber" or "whale insulation" that's decided to buddy up to my gut, hips, butt and thighs. Thanks little fatty friends, but I'm sort of stick of dragging you around with me all day long. I need a slimmer entourag. You know how things go...Now don't cry, a couple handfuls of you can stay but only in my breast region mkay? 

Anyhow, I know that today was only the first day of "Mmm powdery goodness" but I did my stinkin' best and avoided the chocolate in our waiting room, the chips that Brian left on the dining room table and I didn't even suck on the bar of soap in the shower when I was washing my hair. Wee for me. 

I will be posting my starting pictures in the next day or so, so if that doesn't make you want to stick around I don't know what will. Common--Seeing me posing against my bedroom wall in a tank top is like a FREE TRIP TO SEA WORLD WITH OUT HAVING TO PAY FOR AIR FARE! "Look Mommy--Shamu!" Hyuck hyuck hyuck...

Anyhow, without any further ado I give you "What I Put In My Piehole Today". Here's the rundown:

Soy Shake - 7:45 AM

Black Coffee with 2 Equals & Non-fat Milk (3 tbs)

Soy Shake - 10:30 AM

Water 1/2 liter
Water 1/2 liter

Soy Shake - 1:06 PM

Water 1/2 liter

Soy Shake - 3:30 PM

Water 1/2 liter

Lean & Green 6:53 PM -

Chicken - 20 grams protein, 110 calories, 1 gram fat
1/2 cup mixed veggies - Organic sugar snap peas, carrots, and zucchini
2 cups Organic loose leaf salad mix
1/2 cup LF cottage cheese - 15 grams protein
20 balsamic flavored salad spritzer squirts - 40 calories and 2 grams fat.

7:08 PM - 95 grams of protein total, thus far. Roughly 800 calories

I'm supposed to have between 100-120 grams of protein, per day, at a minimum, and 1,000-1,200 calories. That means between now and bedtime I'm going to squeeze in another 15 grams of protein and 80 calories most likely with a flavored "high fiber, sugar free high protein hot chocolate" MM-MMMM GOOD. Don't be so jealous okay? It's not healthy. 

Anyhow, I hope you'll keep your fingers crossed for me and that some of you will stick around to see me through this crazy four letter word called "Diet".