3 Day Diet - Day 1

     I've got a pretty big milestone occurring this year; I'm getting married! So since this year is going to be a pretty big year in my life I've decided to make some changes in my life. I'm trying to make a promise to myself to live better: eat better, get more active, try to be less negative (which proves to be sometimes difficult when you deal with the public for a living) basically I'm only making choices that will lead to a happier and better me. I've made a lot of excuses and I can't keep doing that - it's just holding me back.

     Perfectly timed: a girl at work is going into surgery soon and needs to lose some weight so in a show of support a few of us are doing the "Three Day Diet". It was explained to me as being from the Heart and Stroke Foundation, uses things you have in your house already, it's used before heart surgery because something in the science of it focuses on the fat in your body. And the best part of all - you can lose up to 10 pounds... in just three days. I was excited at first; I needed to kick start getting into shape, especially after the over-indulgent holiday season.. After a quick Google my excitement slowly diminished. It was going well at first, the site said it's safe and effective and let's you download the menu for free. But the small print on the menu itself reads that they're not specialists and advises you to use it "at your own risk". Further, different sites listed different ingredients, said the diet came from different sources, no one on message boards seemed to be that happy with it and it didn't seem to actually be doing anything. Most importantly, the selling point of the whole thing: nothing showed up on the Heart and Stroke Foundation website.  It just proves that if something is too good to be true, it probably is. Like most fad diets: it's a lot of high expectations & glitter and if you didn't lose weight, it's probably something you did wrong.
     Now, will I still be doing this crazy diet? Yes. The basic principle of it is simple: small meals of super low calories. All I can hope to gain from this is to curve some of the over-eating I've been doing. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised? From now on I know not to jump into things and to seriously think things through first. 
 

NOW, if you wanted to follow along, here's what fun I'll be partaking in today:  
Day 1

   Breakfast:

   1 Cup black coffee or tea

   ½ Grapefruit or ½ cup fresh squeezed juice

   1 Slice toast

   1 Teaspoon peanut butter

  Lunch:

   ½ Cup plain tuna

   1 Slice toast

   1 Cup black coffee or tea

  Dinner:

   2 Slices any kind of meat (3 oz.)

   1 Cup string beans

   1 Cup carrots or beets

   1 Small apple

   1 Cup Vanilla ice cream

     Luckily, I like all the food on the menu and don't mind boring meals. However, in true fashion - I did chose the worst day to start it. a) Blue Monday: the most depressing day of the year, b) the heat in our office has been wonky for almost 2 weeks (with our Canadian winter, it has not been fun), and c) they've been testing our fire alarms for hours. The annoyance of the situation has not made for a typically perky day, only made worse by everyone commenting my grumpy state is surely from my diet choice: "I'll have to talk to you in a few days once you're all done, I guess." Not. Funny. Also, it's not helpful. I'm making life changes to better myself and you're just making light of it.

Ohhh diets.
Please wish me murder-free success. I'm wishing you the same.

K