Official Day 1:

I have begun my Michael Thurmond Six-Week Body Makeover and I am disappointed to have to say I am not happy with how I feel.

Right now I am at a low, LOW point of the diet motivation. :( I am craving a Coke so bad I can hardly stand it. And BREAD. I need something bread like. I thought I'd outgrown my need to have something breadlike in the morning to keep from throwing up, but evidently not. This food is much too "acidy" for me. My stomach is starting to roll a bit. Coke would settle it. So would bread.

I've also got a bit of a headache starting from no caffeine (have done the caffeine cold turkey stoppage before and I recognize the withdrawal symptoms) so today promises to be very interesting. I am being strong, though, so never fear. :)

While I'm complaining, I have another gripe:

Have you ever noticed how much sodium is in the food we eat? Who would have thought that there were hidden caches of sodium in FROZEN broccoli???? I bought the frozen anyway because the grocery store I went to didn't really have any decent looking fresh broccoli, but I am disturbed by this. PLUS (to continue my gripe in another direction) I found that many of the items I was eating, thinking they were "healthy", were actually hiding high levels of sodium, too! :(

AND, for those items that are packaged as "low sodium" (canned albacore tuna, for instance) it seems that they have become price bracketed with "low fat" because I just paid an extra $.50 per can for albacore tuna w/low sodium vs. the spring water packed albacore.

Isn't that nuts???

I'm in the wrong business.