Day 6 - Attack Phase

Last day of my Attack Phase.  As I type that, it's a bittersweet thing.  Silly, I know.  I feel good because I did it. I feel good because of the weight loss thus far.  I feel good because I didn't cheat...even though that bread is CALLING OUT TO ME SOMETHING FIERCE!  I have learned that giving up good bread is more difficult than giving up sweets.  A little fearful because I'm leaving something that I know and heading into the first long stretch...and I do know half of the days...it's just the protein days.  And the other days I can eat veggies...I have my list...it's all good.  It's just going to be a long long haul.  Sigh.  My own fault.

Showed the 100 foods list to hubby tonight.  He said that's something he could do.  I said when he reads the book he'll like it (notice the "when").  And that this Dr. Dukan just seems to get us chunky folks...because he sets up fail safes for you.  He realized there will be family events...where one might succumb...and he has a "fix-it" for you.  So.  My birthday is a month away.  I'm having myself a good cookie for my birthday.  There's a family event shortly after...I know there will be cake.  I can turn down store cake.  It's homemade cake that I'm a sucker for.  But...we'll see how this all goes.

Big news being...today is the last day of my attack phase!!!  Tomorrow, I shall have a protein day.  Friday, I shall have a protein+veggies day...and this will be a good test...because we are going out of town for a few days.  I have to maintain while traveling.  Phew!!!  I have been thinking about what to put in a cooler...I have been thinking about how to pull this off...and...we'll be fine.  I don't know that I'll post every day during these next weeks, but I will do a weekly "state-of-the-weight" post.  We'll see.

So.  To this morning's weigh in.

198.6!

Again...I'm happy.  And again...hopefully, my weigh in tomorrow will be a lesser number and we'll have the grand total for how much I lost during my Attack Phase.

To my food for the day...

Breakfast:  I got making my Galette.  Added more cinnamon than before.  Also added a little ginger, nutmeg, cloves and to put it over the top...and to be redundant...a little pumpkin pie spice.  I liked it.  Had a mug of my water-milk also.  I think I'm getting used to that stuff.  I miss my "real" milk.  But I'd rather have this water-milk than nothing.  So I appreciate the dairy I'm allowed.

I have also discovered that between breakfast and lunch doesn't seem to be a "danger zone" for me and munching.  So, once again, no snack.

Lunch:  Had two slices of leftover turkey breast from last night.  Three slices of the allowed ham deli meat.  A thing of the garlic Laughing Cow (pretty sure it's the low fat one...i don't want to go look right now).  And added a Crystal Light to my water.

For an afternoon snack, I finished off the Greek Yogurt from this morning's Galette.

Dinner:  I made Tandoori Chicken.  Hubby had rice with his.  I had a hard boiled egg and nonfat cottage cheese with mine.  After I finished, my mouth was still a bit on fire from the chicken so I had a few more spoons of cottage cheese.

Did my T-Tapps today.  AND...miracle of all miracles, got my husband to go on a walk with me as it was getting dark!  He wanted to do two laps...I said, come on, we can do four.  Then he got talking with his sister on the phone towards the end of lap two and we did four.  Happy happy joy joy.  He agreed after that it was better for him to do the four.

So.  That's it.  I'll have some jello shortly and then get myself to bed.  Have a lot to do tomorrow to prepare myself for being out of town for a few days.  I will succeed...and I'll post my weight in the morning so we have a final number for this first part of the diet.  He said I'd lose 5.05.  This morning, I was at 6.4...so...hopefully that number does not go up...it needs to stay the same or be a touch lower...we'll see if that scale and I are still friends...