So how's it going?

How do people eat six cups of vegetables in a day? And then all that other stuff? There's no WAY I'm eating everything on my "Basic (with Choices)" list.

I am determined, however, that this will be sustainable, so there are a few things I refuse to do. I'm not buying artificial sweetener for one cup of coffee a day, in fact, I don't DO "artificial" food.

Mainstays of my diet so far: turkey pepperoni sticks (seriously? who invented that? They should get a lot of gold stars. I should knit them dishcloths.) and snap peas.

I am hungry all afternoon, usually, but that's insulin resistance rearing its ugly head. I have a filling lunch and half an hour later, excess insulin starts buzzing through my body shouting lies like "You are still hungry!! You must store fat!!" I ignore the insulin and listen to soothing music.

Yesterday I was listening to John Denver and wanted to punch him in the face for being such a pansy Pollyanna.

So the soothing thing doesn't necessarily always work.