Day One of the Diet under my Belt

I've completed day one of the military diet.  I did get hungry, but I drank water. And I didn't get hungry until in the evening.  I ended up eating lunch at about 11:30, but I was starved so I ate dinner at 4:30.  I saved the ice cream (yes, we get ice cream on this diet) until about 7:30.

I've lost 6 pounds in 4 days.  But, the first day I did nothing but weigh, the second day I only did my app to track my weight (and I was about 54 calories over what they told me to eat), yesterday was day 3 and I haven't done anything but weigh today.  It's early. 

So, today I get:  Breakfast, 1 egg, a slice of toast and 1/2 banana.  For lunch, I get 1 cup cottage cheese, 1 hard boiled egg and 5 crackers and for dinner, I get 2 hot dogs, 1 cup broccoli, 1/2 cup carrots, 1/2 banana and a half cup of vanilla ice cream.  I'm holding off as long as I can for breakfast.  The only thing allowed to drink is coffee (I assume black), tea (I assume unsweetened) or water.

I guess for dinner, I'll make brats for everyone but me, doing hot dogs for me.  I may check out the calories between the two and see how close they are.  Brats would be healthier in my opinion, if the calories are the same.  You never know what goes into a hot dog.  But I can do steamed broccoli and carrots to go with it and maybe rice.  I won't be able to eat the rice, buy my husband can't go a meal without a starch.

I'm pleased with the progress.  Six pounds is a great start.  And I broke that 170 mark. 

Yesterday, doing the military diet, I ended up very close to what my app said I should eat for calories.  I was supposed to get 1,270.  I would have gotten 1,281, but I did yard work for a half hour and counted it as exercise.  It took 154 calories off.  We (my husband and I, but mostly me) dug a hole and transplanted a peach tree from a pot to a plot in our yard.  I dug most of the hole (he currently has a broken leg and isn't supposed to put weight on it), and then rolled the pot on it's side to loosen the root ball.  He picked it up (with my help stabilizing and removing the pot) and put it in the hole.  Then I put the dirt back around it.  BUT, in between putting the tree in the ground and pulling the dirt back to fill the hole, I had to run and get the water hose because the old pot had a fire ant nest in it.  They attacked him, but not me (for rolling it around).  So, I'd say it was exercise.  I haven't jogged, even across the yard, in at least 2 years.  He's better this morning, but I'll be spreading borax and Splenda across the yard where they were.  They are concentrated in a stump we have, and had tunneled to the pot across the yard.  We sprayed with Murphy's Oil Soap yesterday, but it wasn't listed as a killing agent and I want to make sure they die with the queen.