R1 Day 7

After a disappointing weigh in yesterday, I was ready to do an apple day and I almost did but I thought I would give it another day since it was only one day. So this morning's weigh in I lost 2 lbs! Yay! I am thinking what is happening is that I have been eating chicken most every day and it says to vary your meat. I haven't eaten a lot of beef because I prefer chicken and beef tends to make me feel sluggish and tired. I don't even know where to buy veal and I can't/don't eat seafood so that kind of limits me. I have noticed, however, that I don't lose much weight when I just eat the chicken but the two days that I ate beef for one of my meals I had a good weight loss. So now I think that instead of having beef once a week I will up it to every third meal discounting breakfast of course. We'll see what that does and if that doesn't work I'll do one beef and one chicken per day. On second thought, maybe I'll just do one beef, one chicken per day so that I don't slow anything down. I really want to make the most out of my time doing this so that it sticks most of all, but also so that I don't have to do it again. Not that it's hard but I prefer to just do portion control and watch what I eat. If I can get down to a good weight for me and keep it there for awhile, hopefully my body will remember that that is where it is supposed to be and not let myself gain weight again. Fingers crossed! I am down 9.5 lbs so far but 6 of that was just after the load so by day 7 of phase 2 I have only lost 3.5 lbs. That is really sad! I would have thought that I would be further along by now but I guess I'll just take solace in the total weight loss instead of dividing it up into when I lost it. Wish me luck!