  Two down, two to go. I normally only work two in a row, so this is really not going to be a whole lot of fun. I did get some sleep today, versus yesterday, but I don't like that I'm having dreams that feature people I work with. That just means I'm seeing them too much. Last night we had five nurses. I'd just about forgotten how nice it can be when you only have five patients to work with. We are so pitiful in that respect; we're so used to working desperately short that we don't even remember how nice it is to be just a little bit short (we are fully staffed at six nurses). Being on a diet is actually easier at work, though. I love to cook, and being home just means I have more time to do so. And cooking leads to eating, and eating leads to.. well, you know what that leads to. Anyway, I'm all fired up about being on this diet, and I am refraining from posting daily information about how much I'm losing (because I am one of those OCD people who get on the scale every day despite everything the experts say).
I'll post once a week on Mondays how much I've actually lost over the past week. What I enjoy most about this diet, so far, is that it involves everything I CAN eat and nothing I can't (well, you are allowed up to 6 ounces of seafood a day, but it isn't mandatory), and the fact that I'm getting all exotic on my salads buying stuff I wouldn't normally buy, like those neat little baby corns and bamboo shoots and water chestnuts and so on. And I bought two mangoes to put in with my oatmeal. So in a way I feel like I'm splurging because these are things I wouldn't normally spend money on. I read that some people who've followed the diet have lost a hundred pounds, so I feel pretty encouraged that I'll be able to get where I want to go here.
What I do need to resist are the million and one people who want to tell me how to diet and tell me where this diet is wrong, and modify it. I'm doing exactly (very much exactly) what it says, and daggone it, if it says I can have unlimited oatmeal then I am going to eat oatmeal for breakfast until I'm full. There is nothing more depressing than measuring out food, in my opinion. It just makes you feel so deprived.
But if you just eat the right things as much as you want to, then on a psychological level you don't feel like you're being taken away from. Dieting is really as much psychological as it is physical. Anyway, they do say that even though in the beginning of this diet people tend to eat more, but that as time goes on they eat less, because of stomach shrinking (it really does that) and the fact that this diet is so incredibly high in fiber, which fills you up. The only problem I've found is with working twelve hours, you really only eat breakfast and lunch, so I do tend to get hungry before I go to bed. I'll be researching some snack options because putting a salad together at nine in the morning is a bit much for me to be contemplating.
Some days even eating a salad at nine in the morning is a bit much. Who can chew? Anyway, wish me well, and hopefully by this time next year (perhaps) I'll be much healthier (although I'm pretty healthy now despite it all) and in a smaller size. urlLink urlLink ');"> postCount(' '); 
