I woke up after only 2 hours sleep, stayed up awhile and back to sleep, woke again at 11 AM. Restless, no doubt the diet change. I'm hungry, just feeling it in the pit of my stomach, a lot of the time. When I intake something, then my stomach calms down for a little while and then starts up again. This too shall pass. I am hoping tomorrow on my fourth day it won't be as hard.
I decided to add some V8 soups to my regimen, largely because I need something hot. I had a box of V8 broccoli soup today - all the soups have a lot of sodium, 1100 or so grams, and this soup has 6 grams of fiber, probably all the fiber I had today. It helped a great deal just to be able to eat something hot and with some flavor of vegetables. I'm not chewing gum or eating mints or any other external aids, and I've had no cokes since the start on Monday. So I'm getting used to a lot at once.
I have taken no Novolog at all since I started, and my Lantis has dropped 8 units a day. That's because I'm spreading a limited amount of carbs out over the day and usually ingesting only 12-15 at a time. Total loss in 4 days is 10 pounds, much of which has to be volume and water weight. It's still encouraging, a little sign from above perhaps.
I'm a bit cold, probably from low carbs. For the third day in a row I hauled in supplies - this time purchasing two cases of the Oh Yeah protein drinks to ensure I get close to 50 grams of protein a day. Also bought more V8 Fusion juice and Starbucks frapuccino light drinks and V8 soups. I'm supplied for at least a month - as far ahead as I want to commit at this time.
This is very hard, but not harder than I thought it would be. Tomorrow I will discuss why a chose this route.
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