10 Day Challenge Update: Two Days Down
So… my plan for Krissie’s 10 day challenge is to replace my three meal a day plan with one that involves at least five, smaller meals per day — in the hopes that this will a) keep me from feeling deprived, b) keep me from overeating at dinner and c) allow my stomach to shrink a bit.
Day one was awesome. (Well apart from the piece of cake that I ate for my last meal of the day). I ate when I felt hungry, and found myself getting full after just a small amount of food. And as a result, my evening meals really weren’t any bigger than those from during the day. *And* by the time I reached the day’s end, I was about 300 calories under what I usually manage to squeeze into a day (and that’s WITH the cake!)
Day two was much harder. My husband and I went to a boat show in the morning and then did our weekly grocery shopping together. As a result, we were out most of the day and therefore I couldn’t just eat when I was hungry. I had to wait to eat, and as a result, I was pretty damned hungry. Still, though… I managed to keep each meal relatively small and I was well under my caloric intake for the day.
Anyway, even though today was a bit tougher, I’m feeling good about this new way of dividing up my meals. This is only day two, but I feel like I can stick it out for the full ten days and perhaps even make this a permanent change — which makes other changes seem a little less daunting.
In other good news, it turns out that I actually WON Fat Bridesmaid’s pedometer challenge! It’s so exciting because not only do I *never* win anything, but I also didn’t have time to keep track of the other competitors, and therefore winning really was a giant surprise! I didn’t win by much, though. Ready2shrink was hot on my tail with a whopping 259,927 steps — which is totally awesome! I’m seriously so proud of all the other people who stepped up (har!) to FBM’s challenge. This was such a great idea and I really want to thank Fat Bridesmaid for issuing the challenge in the first place.
Yay for us!
