Week 2 Ramblings

Giving up coffee is WAY harder than DP. I almost never even think about DP. When I went to the mall, it was sad... but not hard. There is not as much allure to the mall without a DP and a cookie calling to me! :) Not a bad thing, right?

BUT, late afternoon, just before The Boy wakes from his nap, this momma needs a little pick me up. That is what my coffee was for me. *sigh* This week I will be going down to half of the cup size I drank last week. I went through all my coffee cups today. I have the super size, a regular size, and then a tea cup. Each is about half the volume (YES I measured, Laura, did you expect less of me? haha!) of the one above it. So, last week I was drinking one super sized cup of coffee, this week I will drink one regular size coffee, and next week, will be my last cups of coffee... the tea cup size. *sniff, sniff* I will live, though, right? Besides, I don't want to blow nasty coffee breath on The Boy his whole life.

Because I am not loosing weight very fast and I feel like I honestly can't work much harder in the time I have, I went out and bought a food scale. I found out how much protein I need per meal. I have already measured out 4 baggies of cooked chicken for meals tomorrow. I also boiled a dozen eggs. I forgot how much I like eggs. Then I realized I need to eat five, yes, five egg whites in a setting, I realized I need to be buying 3 dozen a week at least! As for the veggies, i will fill up on them, and the rice etc, I will be measuring out my portions. I think that will help a lot.

I have found that, though I really do love vegetables, I tire of chewing them! ha! Those that have seen me eat, understand. I inhale my food, and that is not an understatement. I routinely have my entire plate CLEANED before my friends have finished preparing their plates. (You know, made sure they had a fork, the drinks they want, condiments, an napkin) Now that I am eating so much cleaner, I am having to really work on chewing! Slow Down. bah!

I will say, that though I have about 5X the dishes I had before, I seem to have more of an odd sort of energy. I am tired, dog tired, as any mother of a toddler would know, but I still seem motivated to get lots of things done, even late in the day. I attribute that to eating right. And now that I FINALLY got 6 meals in a day those last few days, I was not so flippen hungry! Go motivated energy!

OK, well I just got my new Clean Eating magazine in the mail, so I am off to be inspired. Too bad I already bought groceries! Maybe I can find a clean dessert that is dairy and Gluten free???