Dieting and Vacations

Day three of our seventeen day diet felt a lot easier than the past two.  I don't know if it's because of the long nap that I took after breakfast or if my body is just getting used to the new foods.  I didn't feel super hungry and didn't crave random not-so-good-for-you foods the whole day.  I don't know exactly.  We also purchased already seasoned chicken breast in a bag that we could pop into the oven and eat easily.  No skin peeling which I have to admit is super hard for me since I feel like it's the best part and no dark meat to struggle with.  I'm not the biggest chicken fan preferring red meat to chicken almost always.  These first seventeen days are all about chicken, turkey, and fish.  No red meat for me.  When I do eat chicken I prefer the dark meat to white so yeah, avoiding the rest of the chicken to get to the white meat if we were to cook a full chicken would be too painful and tempting.

I have no doubt that I can do the full seventeen days.  Luckily our seventeenth day is Thanksgiving so I'm more than happy to focus my attention on the salads, white meat of the chicken and turkey, use little (if any gravy), and have lots of veggies.  Of course, I will bend it a bit and eat just enough to fulfill the cravings of mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes with a little bit of butter but by then I'm hoping to have lost a good deal of weight.  After Thanksgiving though, I need to discuss with Dave.  Even though we won't be at our goal weights, we only have six days until we go to Disney.  A part of me wonders if we should maintain the first cycle and we don't really have the seventeen days to move to the next cycle.  Let's face, I don't want to be bound by a restrictive diet when I'm down in Disney.  

That's not to say, I want to go to Disney and eat everything.  I just want to be able to enjoy some of the luxurious that their dining can provide.  I want to have a sandwich at Earl of Sandwich, an icecream at Ghirardellis Icecream, a Mickey Mouse pancake, sip hot chocolate during the Very Merry Christmas Party,  and enjoy other indulgences.  Maybe a burger, some popcorn, and a little alcohol. We will be doing lots more walking than we would normally so we'll be burning more calories.  I still plan to eat lots and lots of salads and get my low fat yogurt in for most days.  I have no problem maintain the second cycle diet most of the time but lets face it, those that I list above aren't included. 

It's a bit far in advance to begin thinking about eating in DisneyWorld but I began doing some basic planning which has it on my mind.  I think we'll just have to wait and see what we weight at the end of our initial seventeen days and go from there.   We've already lost some weight (probably just water weight but still) so who knows.  I'm excited to see where this goes!