The End of Day 2

Up at 4 AM with slightly low blood sugar, drank some V8 Fusion light juice and stayed up until 7:30 AM and then back to bed and slept until noon. The first thing I thought when I woke up was I'd passed some hungry hours safely - which means I'm serious, and this is formost on my mind. Still very hungry today but making it. Another less than 800 calorie day. I'm not deliberately keeping the calories quite that low, but I want to keep them under 1000.

I spent the day investigating the drinks I might drink and acquiring them - the new V8 Fusion Light drinks and the V8 Fusion juice + green tea drinks are delicious and low in calories. They have about 13 carbs, which is almost exactly the amount I want to put in my body every couple of hours. But no protein. I stopped by Walmart and a Vitamin Shoppe and purchased a few protein drinks - you can get a protein drink that is quite high in proteins and low in carbs that tastes pretty good but is a bit pricey at $2-4 a drink. As I get more experienced, I may mix protein powder into existing drinks. But right now I don't want to ingest anything that isn't really good tasting. I'm a beginner, so I need beginner baby steps.

The rest of my time was spent on improving my charting spreadsheet workbook. I now have it where it is tracking everything for each day, charting results, doing weight projections, looking at insulin trends, etc. with probably 5 minutes a day of input - no manual manipulation to speak of except to create a new spreadsheet tab each day.  I have found in the past that this is very helpful in keeping me motivated.

In two days I've dropped 7 pounds - not all real weight of course. I was artificially high from eating too much salt on Sunday, and I've gone from 2500+ grams of salt a day to about 800. So there's been a big water dump. It's still encouraging. My worst case projection if I can stay under 1000 calories a day and burn 2500 calories according to my bodybugg is that it will take me about a year and a half to normalize. But my body has not been known to follow 'the rules', so we will see.

I was taking 20+ units of Novolog (short acting insulin) and 80 units of Lantis (long acting insuln) daily. That has dropped to no Novolog and 72 units of Lantis because of the restriction of my carbs to less than 100 grams a day. Can't be bad news.

I'm still very hungry - did I mention that? I drink something about every 1.5 to 2 hours, and somehow that holds me a bit longer. Tomorrow is another day.