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August 19th, 2008South Beach Diet - Sugar Cravings! AHHH!!
I fell off the South Beach Diet wagon last week about 6 days after I started. So….today…I try again. It’s the sugar cravings that are getting the best of me.
I found myself staring out my home office window thinking about how the morning glory blooms would taste? Maybe like yummy marzipan? Big birthday cake frosting flowers? I kept chugging water thinking that would “satisfy” me - or distract me so that I could get over the craving hump for that hour.
Can we get real for just one minute…..water is NOT filling. Never was….never will be. It tastes like nothing….feels like nothing….and satisfies like you’ve just eaten a spoonful of air.
I know you should drink MORE water when you’re losing weight….but water does not help me feel calm and satisfied like say…..a SNICKER BAR. Yes…it was a SNICKER BAR that pushed me off the wagon. And can I just admit…..it was freakin’ delicious. Orgasmic. Especially since I had been wearing Miss Salad crown for 6 days. Salads, eggs….salads, eggs…..blah blah blah…..
OH yes - I’m feeling so motivated to start this crazy diet again. NOT!
This morning I had egg beaters scrambled with green and red peppers mixed in. I had a low fat cheese stick for my mid-morning snack….and I will have a salad for lunch. Now….I didn’t…and I mean DID NOT give up my morning coffee with two sugar cubes in it. I’m sorry….I’m a weenie when it comes to that. I actually fear for my life if I don’t have my coffee. I could go into convulsions or something. I just don’t know. I don’t want to know. YOU don’t want to know. My family doesn’t want to know. Even the dog doesn’t want to know. It’s scary.
So….I started off this second round by breaking a rule right off bat. Geeesh…I must be doomed.
But I’m still trying.
I will do my yoga on the Wii Fit today….LOVING that. And I will go for my hour long walk around my neighborhood. Gotta get those 10,000 steps in - and it’s not gonna happen parked at this computer. The computer is the reason I’m out of shape in the first place.
I don’t consider myself a total mess.
It’s not like I need to lose 50 or 100 pounds. I cannot imagine, and more power to those that are in the process or have lost that much.
MY goal is 14 pounds. Really it should be 15 - but 14 sounds easier to me.
So….now it’s 11:19am and lunch is soon. I’m ready. I’m starving right now even though I ate eggs and cheese and peppers….oh and drank a crap load of water….
I’m ready for my salad with tuna on it (Not really a big fan of tuna…..but I am a fan of having a smaller butt - so I can eat it if I have to.)
IF I make it ’til bedtime….groovy. One day down in Phase 1 and 13 more days to go. I feel like Will Ferrell’s character in the movie Talladega Nights: Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Remember the scene when he’s thinks he’s on fire…and he runs around screaming….”Help me Tom Cruise…save me…use your witch craft!”
(HILARIOUS!!)
Well..that’s how I feel with my candy dish sitting empty on my desk. Invisible M&Ms torture me.
Should I stop, drop and roll?
Maybe I should tell the kids and my husband to tackle me if I start running around in circles begging for chocolate or snorting Splenda packets?
I don’t know how this is going to turn out. Will I make it further than six days this time? Questionable. But damn I’d like to fit into those size 10 jeans again.
Wish me luck. No….better yet…wish me no cravings. Wish me that water will taste like chocolate milk and salad will taste like Milk Duds. OH what a perfect world that would be.
