day 5
meat and tomatoes. you can eat 10-20oz of meat and up to ten fresh tomatoes. try to drink 6 to 8 glasses of water to eliminate the acid in the urine. don't forget to drink the soup at least once a day.
today is like an adkin's day. yummy! i get to eat steak today! i love steak. mmmm.... with some fresh tomatoes.... mmmm.... i haven't eaten meat for 4 days which is odd for me because i usually eat meat at least once a day whether it be just small pieces of chicken in campell's chicken and stars, or korean short ribs. last night i prepared my lunch for today, i panfried a steak, rare so that when i microwave it later it won't be totally dry, and i also cut up 2 tomatoes for a fresh tomato salad with a bit of salt and pepper to taste. my mom also made another HUGE pot of soup and jarred a batch for me this afternoon. i was so tempted to eat a bit of the steak last night after cutting it up for today. again i was able to resist. maybe it was because i was watching CSI and they were examining a dead body, so just wasn't in the mood to ingest anything.
also the banana shake was good yesterday! we blended 2 bananas with about 3 cups of nonfat milk with just a pinch of sugar subsititute. the shake was frothy and delicious.
oddly enough, after eating huge amounts of fruits and veggies, and bananas yesterday, i haven't been able to "release" anything for 2 days now. :( i feel like i need some sort of movement because i've eaten so many fiberous foods in the past couple of days, but nada. weird.
*grrrr...* i'm kinda upset right now. i was going to upload some pictures but for some reason, my computer says that my disk is NOT FORMATTED! wth? i've been uploading pics for like 3 months now, on this computer, from this same smart media disk, and now the computer is telling me that it's not formatted? grrr.... technology today is so unreliable sometimes...
will be back later
so theses are the pics i wanted to show! parkin and i finally got a flat sheet and king pillows for the bed! yeah, i know that things don't match perfectly right now, but we really like it. we're also getting standard pillow cases to match the darker navy blue (the color of the wanna be bed skirty thing that we have) for a pair of standard pillows we have but can't use yet. the pillows are for our gold blankets and pillow cases for the wedding night or first night home as husband and wifey that my mom says that we can't use yet. hehee, we're so traditional. also there's a ck duvet cover that i'm eyeing that will look really good with the colors we have instead of the blue/gray cover we have right now. :P it's a bit pricey tho, so i'll have to be patient. *parkin peeking from under the sheets on the right. hehe, hella cute* yes, the bed is huge, and we love it!
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about 2 weeks ago, i posed the question in my journal, should your life change entirely once you are engaged?
someone responded with this:
"everyone can run their life as they choose. it will be sad if you're the friend because since friends will choose their significant other as their whole life/time, but everyone has the right to make those kinds of decisions for themselves."
i'm really glad that this question received feedback, especially what was written here. one of the reasons i have this journal is for self discovery. by opening myself up to others, people i know or even strangers, i can learn things about myself or learn from other's points of views. i value everyone's opinions.
in this case i've learned that the reader is correct, and i was being a bit selfish in my own thinking. i would love for things never to change between my friendships once i am married or they get into relationships or their own marriage, but it IS the right of the individual to do so. it's not fair, in my mind, to me, but that again is my own selfishness. i am thinking about myself, not wanting things to change between my friendships... but it works both ways, so if things change, it's the right of the other person to change things right? damn, am i even making sense?
anyhow, thank to DW for your feedback that made me go hmm... i really appreciate it!
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i'm not sure if i'll have time or opportunity to post over the weekend, so here is my program for the weekend:
day 6
vegetables and meat, you can eat up to 3 steaks. if you like green leaf vegetables, thats the best for losing weight. make sure that you drink the soup. no potatoes.
day 7
you can eat brown rice, vegetables, and sugar free fruit juice. and don't forget to drink the soup.
after the seventh day if you have not been cheating, you should have lost 10-15 pounds. if you have lost more than 15 pounds wait for a few days to start the diet again. this diet you can do as often as you want. this system is to clean your body inside, the secret of this diet is to burn more calories than you can consume. it will clean your organs and make you feel good. this diet will affect each person in a different manner, after 3 days you'll feel more energy if you don't cheat. (from online sources)
i'll be back on monday with my final weight loss/gain after this 7 day diet.
have a great weekend everyone!