Day 7

So my overall weight loss is still around 4 pounds, with none of the 1.7 lbs. (of the total 5.7 before cheat day) have been "re-lost" yet. I'm feeling pretty good about the program, but I have to admit I'm skeptical of what I perceive to be a lack of information that is "female specific" in the book. He does say many women just can't have a cheat day, so I'm hoping I am not one of those folks. At the very least, this blog and taking photos of everything I eat for a month will help me get a handle on what I really eat, and how much. I'm in therapy and we have been talking about real hunger vs. mind hunger and how different those hungers are, and the upshot is that I hardly ever know when I am hungry and when I am not. I seem to feel the best when I eat when I am hungry, but not super hungry, and eat until I am full, but not super full. That may seem elemental to many of you reading, but food/hunger is completely attached to emotional (specifically anxiety) issues for me, that it's a difficult puzzle to put together.



Breakfast, Day 7: Fried eggs (plus a little extra cartoned egg whites), green beans, black beans, sauerkraut.



Lunch: Trout, green beans, mashed garlic white beans, sauerkraut



2nd Lunch: Chicken, arugula, tomato, apple cider vinegar dressing



Dinner: 4-Hour Body Chile Relleno. This was delicious. Here is the recipe:

Take 2 poblano peppers and char them until the skin is black and can be scraped from the flesh of the pepper. Cut off the top and stuff with mashed pinto beans (which I always doctor with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and cumin) and a few tablespoons of cottage cheese. Heat a skillet with a little macadamia oil and begin to fry the stuffed peppers. After about 5 minutes on each side, adding some extra cumin and chile powder. When the cheese is starting to sizzle and get melty and hot, put in several tablespoons of salsa. Cook another 3 minutes and serve hot. Next time I think I might add avocado and pumpkin seeds, or perhaps ground beef, but this was a simple, fast, and delicious dinner.

Can my calculations really be correct that this day was only 1200 calories? It definitely seemed like plenty of food, though I was hungry for 2nd lunch just three hours after the first. It's only 6:30 so I might have another snack later, but I'm feeling full enough and satisfied, and al of these meals were tasty and quick and easy to prepare. I suppose I'll stop over thinking it, and just enjoy being full on such a relatively small number of calories!