No Soup For You!

Done with the cabbage-soup thang. Very glad. Day #7 wasn't easy. I felt pretty weak toward the end, there. So, for breakfast? Fritos. Breakfast of champions.


I did lose 7-8 lbs during the week, but ultimately my goal was to prove I could finish something like this. It was good to detox, as well.


I started on the diet with an open mind, just hoping I could make it past day 3. I tried this diet a few years ago and kept forgetting words I wanted to say on Day #3. After consulting with Doug, I agreed that if I was forgetting words, it probably wasn't a good idea for me to continue on with this diet.


It did feel good to prove to myself that I could submit to something like this diet and finish it out. I REALLY wanted something to eat last night around 10 p.m., but didn't want to screw up 7 days of eating the way I was supposed to eat (per the diet). I played by the rules.


Thankful that I didn't succomb to that temptation and was able to keep mind over matter.


Things I learned:
- I don't need everything I want.
- I don't need as much food to survive as I thought. (Hopefully I "reprogrammed myself" here).
- Cabbage soup doesn't make me gag.
- I had enough food for my brain's "circuitry" to work. (Didn't forget words this time around).
- Any suffering I might've experienced was chump change compared to what many go through on a daily basis.
- Submitting yourself to something is not always a bad thing.
- Without needing to think about what to eat, my day / time was more free to do other things.
- If you have the will to finish something, you can, if only you choose to do it (and your body allows, in this case).
- Compounded good choices can make you look back and not want to screw up a good run (with one small bad choice).


Peace, love and someone-find-me-a-buffet-diner?
Shelly, Doug, Ava and Liam