Day 6

Finally! I’m writing a post for the actual day! I’m not backtracking trying to remember what happened a day before! It's a long one, sorry!

Today was actually the first day that my diet was actually tested and it started first thing this morning!! Well, let me backtrack a little bit. This morning, my mom let me sleep in (which was heavenly!!) but when I got up, my sister had brought over a bunch of egg mcmuffin sandwiches. And if you know me, you know they are my absolute favorite breakfast sandwich from there. I usually get it without the egg (I’m not a big egg person) and I just get the Canadian bacon, cheese and mcmuffin. Well I was good and after I heated up the whole sandwich to make it hot, I threw away the bread and ate the egg, Canadian bacon and a little bit of cheese. Yay me!! For lunch a made a Chicken Cesar Salad and ate that while I was talking to my mom at the table. Well, my mom was eating a bowl of cinnamon life cereal and the smell of sugar was sooooo enticing! I was so tempted to just eat a small handful of the cereal dry!! Temptation!! Instead, I quickly stood up, grabbed myself a sugar free fudgsicle and ate it before I could give into my temptation. I didn’t really get a chance to eat the whole thing because my sweet niece realized I had chocolate and quickly made her way over to me to share. She wasn’t very happy when she realized it was all gone and I wasn’t going to pull out a second one!!

Notice the chocolate around her mouth?!

Well it was an absolutely beautiful day here so I went outside to soak up some sun for a couple of hours and when I came in, I was dying of thirst and I was also starving. So I had my first taste of diet Mnt dew and I LOVED it. I also pulled out some low sodium roast beef deli slices and rolled about 5 slices up and had myself a little afternoon snack. Tonight is when the real temptation came into play! Today is my brother-in-laws birthday so my sister Jen had a little family get together to celebrate. She ordered pats pizza, had about 20 sodas and a ton of fruit!!! So before I went to her house, I stopped at burger king and picked up another amazing Chicken Cesar Salad and ate that at her house while everyone else was chowing down on pizza! That pizza smelled absolutely to die for but I resisted my temptation and just ate my salad!! Once I was done that I noticed a vegetable try and I was so excited because I can have vegetables but I can’t have fruit. She has carrots (which I love) celery, broccoli, and tomatoes. Well on the SBD, Phase 1, I can’t have carrots, I don’t like raw broccoli, and I don’t like tomatoes. So I grabbed a few pieces of celery, pulled out her peanut butter, and quickly made my way out of the kitchen! But then the time for cake and ice cream came. And oh man, that cake looked yummy! So after we sang happy birthday, I politely made my way out of the room and avoided the cake table like a plague! I knew if I saw a plate with a piece of cake sitting on it, I would have quickly grabbed it, and shoved it in my mouth faster than my nephew does! Not a pretty picture, I know!! After the cake was put away, I went into the kitchen to help clean up and they were putting the extra pizza away. Once again, my mouth started watering and my stomach started growling. Why is it, that when you cannot eat something, you want it that much more?! Not cool!! I have to admit, I did snitch a couple bites of strawberry but they were really really tiny bites!! On my way home, I stopped at McDonalds. Grabbed a plain grilled chicken sandwich and when I got home, I tossed the bread. 

As I sit here, I am feeling really proud of myself for overcoming my food temptations. Any other time that I have started diets in the past, at the first sign of temptation; I cave in and eat what I want. Not this time though! I have this determination like never before to lose this weight!! Tonight at the party, I was talking to my sister and one of her friends and it came up in conversation that I had started the SBD and her friend very excited told me that she had been on that before she had her children. She said she was a size 16 when she started the diet and before she had her first child, she was a size 4-6!! I was so excited that we had met up and she gave me some great tips to get through these first 2 weeks on the SBD!! It’s one thing to read testimonials online, but it’s another thing to actually meet someone who had been on the diet and who has had a great success in it!!! I can’t wait until the day that I can tell someone that when I started the SBD, I was a size 16-18 and I went down to a size 6-8 (my goal)

Off to bed. I have softball tournament with my dad tomorrow and it is my future-sister-in-laws birthday so we are going out to dinner to celebrate! Let’s hope I can overcome food temptations tomorrow as I know I am going to be faced with lots of them!!

One day at a time...