Day One

Well, this is my first full day of being on me "diet," or as I like to call it my 6 weeks of "I can do anything for 6 weeks" phase. Isn't it funny that I have been trying to lose weight on my own for about 5 years and the only things that have really gotten me motivated in the past and now are some crazy weight loss competitions with cool prizes. I know that there is probably some mental and psychological point to ponder with that realization, but my brain is too fuzzy with lack of caffeine to ponder it. Plus, I intend to keep repressing it as long as possible. Anyway, on to my first day update as it has happened so far. Every day on this Herbalife wellness plan :P I am supposed to replace two meals with shakes, eat one sensible meal, and have about 3 snacks. I am supposed to consume about 150 grams of protein a day. They don't count calories, so I'm not exactly sure how many calories I will be getting, but I can probably figure a rough estimate. The two shakes are supposed to be around 250 calories each depending on what you add to them, so there's 500 right off the bat. I would guess that all of my snacks add up to about 300-500 calories, so that's about 1,000. And then my meal which I intend to be a boneless chicken breast with spinach salad, some cheese and balsamic vinegar dressing is probably about 500. Oh, and then I am drinking some kind of green tea crap 3 times a day which is probably about another 100 calories. So about 1,600 calories a day give or take. Good Lord, no wonder I'm hungry! Anyway, the lady that is my contact person said that if I am still hungry after drinking the shakes that I can add some protein powder to them to make me fill full longer. I might try that next week, but I think I probably just need to give my stomach some time to adjust. I'm thinking it will shrink a little bit on it's own. I mean, it's used to eating God knows how many calories a day - so if something's used to holding a cow and now you're trying to fill it up with a hamster, there's bound to be some adjustment. (I know that metaphor was kind of weird, but just go with it.) Okay, so far today here is what I have done:
Got up at 5:30 - had 32oz. water with Grape Crystal Light, string cheese and banana (7 grams of protein)
10:30 - had an 8 oz. strawberry banana shake (15 grams of protein)
12:30 - 7 hard-boiled egg whites (30 grams of protein)& 8 oz. Green Tea
2:30 - 32 oz. water with Grape Crystal Light


So far, so good. At about 52 grams of protein. Not feeling very hungry, but my stomach is kind of rolling around. I don't know if it's just trying to get used to the changes or if all the liquid is sloshing around. Plus I still have another shake, a snack and my chicken salad meal to look forward to. Surely with all of that I won't get too hungry. I'm going to try and fit in about 30 minutes of exercise today also, even thought they say that on the Herbalife plan you don't have to exercise to lose weight - but I want to anyway. Wish me luck for the rest of the day!