Breakfast: Celestial Seasonings Cinnamon Apple Spice tea with vanilla powder. Yum! It was frothy, warm and delicious. Couldn't taste the powder at all. This will be my go to breakfast.
This is what I use to make my beef broth. It's much cheaper to buy this and make it myself than to buy boxed or canned broth. And the flavor is just wonderful. I have used the chicken version of this in cooking. I bought some cheap boxed chicken broth and don't like the taste at all. So I'm going to go get some chicken base this week.
Lunch: I made some iced tea with Celestial Seasonings Black Cherry herbal tea. I mixed that with the vanilla Optifast. Very good flavor. Mixed it in the Blendtec and that makes it very frothy and smooth.
Mid-afternoon shake: chocolate with ice and water. Gotta figure out something else to mix the chocolate with.
Dinner: vanilla Optifast with cinnamon apple tea. Again, delicious and smooth.
In between snacks: beef broth, strawberry-banana jello, Popsicles (all sugar free, of course).
I've noticed that I am more hungry in the afternoon than in the morning. I am hoping that in the next day or two that my cravings and hunger will pass.
I am not looking forward to fixing meals for my family. I love to cook and bake and not being able to partake of my creations is going to be hard. I have not been able to sit at the table with my family. They had pizza Friday night, including my favorite: crazy bread! I admit I took a finger and ran it across one and licked that tasty goodness off of it. Admit it. You would do it too.
I will have to learn to fix my kids breakfast and their school lunches and get them on to school each morning. I will have to learn to sit down with my 2 year old and help him with his breakfast and lunch and not nibble on it. I will have to learn to make dinner for my family, sit down to eat with them and be satisfied with my shake.
Changing my eating habits means changing theirs, too. My kids are going to hate it. My Asperger son is very picky about his food and textures. My daughter hasn't touched a vegetable since she was about 3. Luckily my 2 year old will eat anything I put in front of him.
Day 3 coming to a close and I made it. On to conquer day 4. Thankfully my migraine is gone and my week is busy.
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