I am on Day 3 of the Cabbage Soup Diet. I am toughing through this because it is only a 7 day diet – a mantra I keep telling myself. 4 days to go and lordy I can’t wait till its over! It really hasn’t been that bad…well okay, its really not that bad TODAY.
Day 1:
I think my stomach is attempting to eat my intestines. I was SO SUPER HUNGRY! This was fruit day. I of course could eat all the cabbage soup I wanted. Unfortunately after 2 huge bowls my body literally could not stomach any more. This left me with fruit. I had a banana, two oranges, two apples, and some pineapple. I probably could have eaten through all the fruit in the entire produce department and still not been able to quell my hunger. So I ran around the house cleaning and working out just to keep myself and my mind from dwelling on how hungry I was. I went to bed telling myself only 6 days left!
Day 2:
I caught my daughters cold. I woke up stuffy and achy, although the aches could have been my muscles screaming at me for the work out the day before, but it still added to the sickness regardless. This was veggie day. I don’t typically wake up and think hmm, carrots sound delicious for breakfast! So I couldn’t muster the appetite or veggies until about 11 am, when I hit starvation level. I ate a bowl of cabbage soup. Which when you feel ill is actually really delicious. Veggie day was far more successful. I enjoyed a big salad (supposed to forgo dressing, but I made a homemade Italian Vinagrette cause I couldn’t down a dry salad, you can call it cheating, I call it bending the rules to make this diet work), cucumbers, and shish kabobs for dinner. I did not go to bed hungry, but I also did not work out as I am under the weather and Vanessa is DEFINITELY under the weather, and I refuse to be the mom that brings a sick baby to the YMCA free daycare. 🙂 I went to bed thinking, this isn’t so hard and kind of glad I was sick. 🙂
Day 3:
Fruit and Veggie Day! Hooray! I got to enjoy an apple for breakfast, a salad at lunch, I have yet to help myself to a cup of cabbage soup, but I am getting hungry so I will soon. I am still a bit under the weather, but today has been far more bearable! Shish Kabobs are on the menu again for dinner, and I am actually really excited for bananas and skim milk tomorrow 🙂 Mostly just excited for the milk. I have refused to step on the scale this week, but am really hopeful that my weight loss will make this entire week of dieting totally worth it! It is getting easier though and I do feel better – and I’m sick so when I am no longer sick I will probably be feeling like a mega rock star 🙂
I am VERY grateful this is a one week diet plan and will not be doing this again in 2014…or maybe ever! I do think it has been a really good jump start to healthy eating. It reminds me that a piece of fruit really does make a great dessert and breakfast. Sticking to the outside of the grocery store really is the best way to shop, and doughnuts – yes I would LOVE a doughnut right now – are becoming less appealing as they just remind me of how I ended up on this damn diet in the first place. 🙂 But at the end of my 6 Week Shred diet – so 6 weeks and 4 days from now. I think I will reward myself by enjoying 1 single doughnut – although my self control will probably limit that to a mini doughnut if its something I want at all. I am beginning to think 20 pounds of weight loss won’t be worth wasting over a stinking doughnut. 🙂