I suppose I should have seen this coming. I go weeks without any invites to gatherings, and the one month that I swear I'm going into hibernation, they come freaking crawling out of the woodwork. A week into my diet, and we get invited to a friend's birthday celebration. She wanted to go out to dinner at a mexican restaurant/club, and stay for drinks after. Great, just peachy. Two things I can't do for a month. I spent a week stressing out over it, trying to find a way to get out of the dinner without hurting her feelings. If it hadn't been her birthday, I wouldn't have worried about it. Eventually I just ended up coming clean and telling everyone that I was on the diet and was really restricted on what I could eat and drink.
Surprisingly everyone was, and is being, really supportive. We ended up meeting up with everyone after dinner, and hung out while they drank. I had a bottle of water, BF drank a couple beers and everyone else had a great time. It was a huge success all things considered, and I'm beyond relieved that I was able to resist the alcohol without much difficulty. My biggest problem with the night was the late turn in. We didn't end up going to bed til two, and with my last set of drops at 7pm, and dinner at eight, I was fighting off hunger pangs and drinking water like it was going out of style. It wasn't too severe, but I had to constantly remind myself I couldn't just grab something to eat.
Of course it would figure that there's a bbq today that one of our friends is hosting, and we were invited. I'm not feeling nearly as guilty for skipping this one though, and we now have the easy out of saying I can't eat or drink shit, and everyone understands. Hopefully the coming month will be much smoother with the lockdown, and if we do end up going out, I know I'll be able to survive the temptations. Not bad, huh?
Lunch and dinner yesterday contained chicken, with a different veggie and fruit. Dinner for BF was a huge success, I took a chicken breast and veggies and made him a stir fry over rice. I'll be planning out my meals for the next week later today, and building the shopping list around that so I'll be better prepared for the coming week. It will be interesting to build the two meal lists, mine and BF's, and see how this coming week plays out.
On to my big news though! Two days now of VLCD, and I've lost 6.6 pounds already! 6.6!! I keep looking at my body trying to find where the fat's come from, and I can't really see a difference, but I think that's mostly due to the fact that I'm pretty biased. It's bizarre knowing that I've lost that much already, but I'm super excited. From all the accounts I've read, this massive weight loss won't last, and I'll start falling to half a pound on most days, but still. I'm already seeing results, and it's a huge motivator to keep me going.
I'll be measuring again on Monday, and I'm excited even more now to see what the results will be. I've found the diet surprisingly easy to stick to, and I'm having fun measuring and tracking my food intake. So far, so good!
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