How I Lost Weight Day Two

Day 2: Water
After I decided to see how long it took for my body to tell me I was hungry, I started a modified fast. I call it modified because I ate some food. At the beginning, I chose to add more water to my diet. Plain water is boring to me after the first day, so I added 1/3 cup or ¼ cup of Real Lemon to my 2 quart pitchers. I now use those individual packets to add to bottles of water. I bought the pitchers I use at Target and they are narrow and fit in my freezer. I was filling them half full and freezing them for the next day.

After awhile, I changed from the pitchers to freezing half bottles of the Real Lemon mix. The last thing I do in the evening is to make sure that my pitcher is in the refrigerator to get cold for the next day. In the morning I add Real Lemon to the pitcher and begin drinking my lemon water. I save the flavored water for the evening as the evenings are the time I do my emotional eating. The Diet sparkling water has natural fruit flavors and is O calories. You can buy it at WalMart, Winn Dixie or Publix grocery stores. I vary the store and the flavor to keep from getting bored with the flavor.

Presently I use 16.9 fl.oz. Propel (reuse these) and reuse Volvic 33.8 fl.oz. At the beginning of the day, I put 4-5 bottles in the freezer so they will be cold when I wnat them. I usually move them over to the refrigerator --hopefully, before they freeze. I use these 2 brands because they are light blue and the Propel has a wider mouth if I wnat to add some ice. I drink water all day--with and without other liquids.

On the second day through the next five days, I focused on keeping an exact count of the calories I was consuming. I found one of my downfalls was the calorie count in my salad dressing. When I began my food program in February, I was eating a lot of those lettuce blends and cutting up celery, onions, and carrots to add to the salad. I was using a balsamic vinaigrette loaded with olive oil. I had been using as much as I wanted because I thought the calories in the dressing couldn't be that important. So by eating my healthy, good-for-me salad, I was using about 8 tablespoons after I started measuring it for a whopping 500 calories--for salad!

So I began a search for a salad that I would want to eat everyday.