End of Week 1

Day 7 has arrived -

I slept better last night (Woot), but will confess to lying in bed a few minutes longer than I needed to, momentarily intimidated by doing 500 jump-ropes.

Food

I'm expecting that our week 2 diets (which should be arriving this afternoon) will be more restrictive that our week 1 diets. Which, on one hand I'm looking forward to - I think I'm much more of an abstainer than a moderator - which is a way of saying I'm better and find it easier to give up something entirely than to allow myself "moderate" portions. Mostly, I suppose, because "moderate" is not clearly defined and I start playing mental mind games with myself - and have to devote a lot more of my attention to the issue. My main frustration with this past week of half portions - where, with rare exceptions, has been a non-stop argument with myself about how big my "regular" portions would have been.

On the other hand, I'm expecting to have to give up some foods that I really enjoy - say, cheese - and I'm not so much looking forward to that.

But I am curious and (at least initially) excited. I'm going to try to think about what I expect to miss the most in the coming weeks and see if I can squeeze in a half portion today.

other half of my omelet

1 cup coffee

1/2 bowl squash soup

1/2 salad

1/2 plate cheese and crackers

(was going to have 1/2 bowl broccoli cheddar soup .. but didn't like the taste when I got home so tossed it. Not wasting my last half a meal on stuff that doesn't taste good)

Exercise

It turns out the jump-roping was not so bad as I feared. I wasn't sure if we were meant to do them in reps of 70 or not. There was no way I was going to be able to do a straight 500 in a row - so I did them in as long a rep as I could manage. Which turned out to be 100 before my lungs and legs took over my body and stopped the madness.

Was kind of headachy all day - definitely need to get enough sleep tonight!