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Days 6 & 7: The Weekend The idea is to loosen up on the weekend, which I did. We went to a party and I allowed myself to eat whatever I wanted at the times that I wanted it. It was a variety of food, some healthy, some not, with a couple of meals out. I haven't gotten back to exercising much due to a little cold, but I did manage a 30 minute strength workout Saturday and lots of cleaning, and on Sunday a 15 minute cold-water swim, which I did for my mood, it's amazing. I have been feeling a bit weird on the bigger dose of wellbutrin, with no appetite effects so far, so we'll see how that goes.

Day 5. So far this hasn't given me the results I was expecting like last time. Maybe it only works if I'm not eating over my hunger signals. Weight today was same as yesterday. So in 5 days I've lost .4 pounds and I would have thought I'd have already just naturally lost water weight since my period is over now. Also not enjoying eating on a weird schedule that doesn't align with social norms and eating when I'm not hungry to prevent myself being too hungry later. I guess the point of it is to just skip that meal, if I'm not hungry. That would probably work a lot better...

Day 4. Up .6 pounds, no surprise there. Still feeling the need to add in more vegetables and real foods to my daily diet. I guess this experiment may be worth it for that alone! Usual coffee with half and half and then around 9 had some blackberry noosa yogurt with about a cup of real blackberries in it, and some apple cinnamon oatmeal. Lunch was as soon as I was the slightest bit hungry at 12, chicken, couscous with kale, tomato and white beans, and salad with olive oil dressing and a little avocado, an iced coffee with chocolate syrup. I wasn't hungry at 4 for dinner but ate a little bit of flatbread anyway. I feel like I'm eating in advance of my hunger which I don't like, and apparently that also spikes your blood sugar. I was trying to get away from rigid rules and simplify things, but I feel like eating when not hungry just to make a time is defeating the purpose. At around 7/8, I had 3 small halloween chocolate candies.

Day 3 This is a quickie because I don't have much time this morning. Yesterday I weighed and was down .2 pounds. Busy day, and ended up eating a little more carby than usual, I think. I had salmon, eggs, and whole wheat toast for breakfast, a jamba juice smoothie for a snack, and thin crust pizza for dinner. At 7 pm when we got home and everyone else was eating, I found myself "needing" to eat more carby things, and ended up grazing on cereal, popchips, fruity snacks and a dark chocolate peanut butter cup or two up until 9pm. This experiment is making me realize that my diet seems very lacking in vegetables and actual real food. Perhaps I don't eat as "healthy" as I thought I did. Going to work on that.

Woke up this morning and weighed in: down .4 pounds, and was a little bit hungry around 7 am which normally I am not. The first few days of anything are always easy for me- I am concerned about giving up after that. Hence this blog. Hoping it will be the thing I need to keep me on track. I read that this way of eating took about 12 days for people to get used to in the experiments they did. Keeping that in mind. This evening was a little more challenging than yesterday, probably because of the workout I did, but I kept busy and bedtime came soon enough. My day looked like this: 7a:  coffee with half and half and a homemade banana muffin 8ish: LEKfit Define workout 9ish: green veggie juice, a scrambled egg with some cooked salmon added in and another 1/2 muffin 12pm: 3 rolled taquitos from evol, sour cream, dark chocolate pb cup and an iced coffee with chocolate syrup 430pm was the earliest I could manage dinner because we were so busy this afternoon running around. I al...

I've heard that to keep motivation going it's important to "know your why". Seems like good advice. So why do I want to lose weight? It's about more than fitting in, or self-image. Though I'd be lying if I said it wasn't at least partly about that. It honestly is a lot about vanity. Ok. I admit, I like wearing clothes that reflect my style, and right now, shopping isn't fun. There are a lot of cute yoga pants and activewear out there, but I'd love to be able to pick out just about anything and have it work, like once upon a time. I also want to look younger. I get it, this is not how I "should" think about things, this shouldn't matter, but I have two younger sisters that in the last few years have gotten in great shape and look better and younger than they did years earlier, and I'm jealous. They do not have kids, which admittedly, ages you faster than anything, but I want that for myself! I feel like the extra weight in ...