Day 8

Pre Breakfast:
Fresh Vegetable Juice
Carrot, celery, beet, cucumber

Breakfast
Scrambled Egg with onion, garlic, and celery topped with salsa
Diced veggies in ACV (apple cider vinegar)

Lunch
Lettuce Salad (same as all week)

Dinner
Baked chicken
Steamed Asparagus
Steamed Cauliflower

Snack
Soaked, dried almonds

My new favorite thing is having salsa on my eggs. I think it will replace Ketchup, and it is much healthier. I find that as long as I eat a protein with breakfast and dinner, I am satisfied all day. I don't get hungry between meals. I do miss eating fruit and having green smoothies, along with bran muffins, wild rice and yogurt with granola.

I did have one great surprise - I got on the scales just for fun on Sunday morning just to see if I had lost any weight. I thought maybe a pound or two, but when the scales read 8 lbs less I was just plain excited. It makes all this so much more bearable. It's not that this is a really hard diet for me. It really isn't. There just isn't a lot of flexibility, mainly because I don't want to fix two different meals every night for dinner and Dennis does not like much but meat and potatoes and a few other things. I would love to have Thai food and would eat it several times a week, but he hates it. Maybe I just need to buy him a pizza and make myself some Thai. That sounds like a plan. In order to get plenty of good healthy nutrition I know that I need a salad everyday, and I opt to eat it at lunch. I don't usually get bored of them, but right now I miss all the extras like a variation of fruit, or tortilla chips on a taco salad. It just wouldn't be a taco salad without the crunch of a chip. I am pretty sure that when this is all over, I won't eat another egg for a very long time.