"Screw this, let's go get Pizza Inn."

First, let me say, "thanks!" for your nice posts :)

The title of this post is what I said as my plate was placed in front of me for dinner.  I really want me some Pizza Inn.  Fortunately for me I had two lovely ladies sitting at the table with me who reminded me that I can make it through tomorrow.  I did not go get Pizza Inn. 

Let me just say this though before I come off as a total negative Nancy about this diet.  If you are the type of person who enjoys good "home cookin" type meals (grilled chicken, fresh green beans, steamed carrots, roasted potatoes) then this really may be the diet for you.  It's really basic food for the first four days and it's not that it is bad food, it's just not food I enjoy.  I love to eat (which is probably part of my problem) and I have no appreciation for plain boring food, which is what this is to me.  I am eagerly awaiting the peanut butter banana english muffin that I have already planned for breakfast Friday morning and my olive tapenade BLT for lunch.  Yay flavor!  I just have to get through tomorrow.  Cream of Wheat for breakfast, more turkey deli meat for lunch, and grilled chicken for dinner. 

Overall, I really have been rather negative about the whole thing today.  I need to change my attitude.  I do hope I've lost some weight though or it will be hard to carry on with this plan.  

Another difficulty: you can't eat out easily on this diet.  This should be ok because really and truly the recipes for the post-anti-bloat-jumpstart period look pretty decent.  But, I really like to eat out and I like to go eat with people.  This is doable if you're just counting calories.  You just have to pick decent food when you're out or "save" your calories for the meal you're eating out.  Chicken soft tacos instead of quesadillas, salad with buffalo chicken instead of chicken finger plate, or a smaller breakfast and lunch to have a bigger dinner, things like that.  I don't like being confined to eating at my house.  I'm going to google and see if I can find any flat belly diet restaurant meals other than the limited list in the book.

I'm still going to try really hard to stick it out for the entire 32 days (29 to go, well really 28, I'm taking my anniversary off, I'll go ahead and put that out there) since I have committed to the internet to do so but, at this point, I'm pretty sure I'll be going back to just counting calories once the 32 days is over.  Who knows though?  Maybe the recipes after the first four days will get me hooked on this eating plan forever.  We'll see.

I rode my bike for 30 minutes tonight.  Yay still exercising!

Got to get through Thursday.  Wish me luck.