yesterday and today…
Yesterday was good and bad. It started out well, but I ended up waiting more like 3 hours between meals and towards the end of the evening I was having mad cravings. I was super hungry, too. I had walked around Gatlinburg all day with my friends (which, is all steep hills!) and after 10 days of adjusting to the new diet, felt like my metabolism had finally stepped it up, because I was hot, and burning through all the food! After hours of walking past fudge stores, candy shops, chocolate, nuts, funnel cakes and every kind of good smelling junk imaginable with my tummy rumbling, I thought I would go mad and cave without pudding or something. So I took a little time to myself in my room to see if it got better….it didn’t, so I headed to the grocery store.
It was torture! Not just madness because of all the people buying food for their 4th grill-out (wow what I would give for some BBQ) but because I had maybe 5 things in the whole grocery store I was allowed to eat. I kept to it though, scoped out the seasonings, bought a couple apples and then hit up the sugar-free jello and pudding. I ate one jello cup straight up in the car! I also bought a rotisserie chicken because I didn’t think I could stand one more cold, last-week cooked chicken breast. I skinned it in the room and weighed it out when I got back and snacked on it while my fish was cooking in the toaster oven!
This is what’s strange. Not only did I have chicken last night in addition to my 6 oz. of fish, I had green beans instead of asparagus (which he allowed but doesn’t prefer), the jell-0 cup AND a pudding cup…and two hours later, I was STARVING. Gatlinburg has a midnight 4th of July parade and being here in the Army for that, we had to march in it. I ate around 8:30 to 9, marched to the beginning of the parade route, got there at 10 and was really hungry, and thirsty - and yesterday I actually managed to drink all 2 gallons! We marched a two mile UPHILL parade route in our wool/polyester uniforms and I got back to the room around 1 AM where I promptly drank an entire bottle of water and drank a 30g goat whey protein shake. I didn’t care if it was late, I knew I was hungry!
This morning I was concerned about how I would look because of yesterday…
my abs are the flattest they’ve ever been!!!! I think not only has my metabolism finally kicked up, the extra exercise burned off the pudding. 
I was going to take today off and workout tomorrow as my fifth day, but I think I’ve got the motivation to keep going, so I might just go ahead and go and do an extra day of cardio tomorrow. I’ve only got till August 1, so I gotta kick it!
If I can, I’ll post a pic as soon as I can get one.
