We Might Be In Over Our Head Here.

Oh yes, you read it right, and if you read my post right before this, you’ll understand why. A low calorie diet isn’t as bad as a very-low calorie diet (at a slight 800 calories each day), but it still felt like torture. I just reminded myself that I got that extra 400 calories from where I could have started, so that was a plus, somehow. MyFitnessPal made it very clear that I was going to have to stay away from my favorite condiments (like those creamy salad dressings and dips, and mayo - I’m a sandwich kind of girl, so that was tough news). Fantastic.

I hadn’t had much interaction with macronutrients, so had no idea about what I had been eating up to that point…but it definitely didn’t have those macros in mind. At all. I took time learning about them, and how I wanted to eat to get aligned with them, and figured out how to fuel my body, instead of eating 3 meals, snacks, and well, just out of boredom, stress and emotions, waking up in the middle of the night for a savory snack, and something sweet before bed - it was a change. A drastic one.

It took about a week to get used to making breakfast with wayyyy less (or for my caloric purposes, none - spray that egg pan with Pam!) butter, not using mayo (or less, I couldn’t get rid of all of life’s joys) on my sandwich at lunch, and include veggies and only one serving of pasta or rice at dinner. I chose not to eat cheese at every meal and snack too. That was probably the toughest part of the new eats. Do you know how much 1 serving of cheese is? The size of your thumb. Wow, definitely feeling that loss. But the show must go on.