Day Four

Yesterday, I finally decided to go to a health food store to find some solutions for my problem with protein substitutes. I found one in town! The lady at the health food was very knowledgeable and really helpful too. She told me everything about Tofu, Seitan, and some protein shakes that really keep my stomach full!

Also, yesterday, wasn't the best day since I started with my loosing weight program! I was hungry as hell! Therefore, after I shopped for different kinds of Tofu, Seitan, and the chocolate flavored shakes... I headed home ready to try a little bit of everything! I was soooo hungry! I first started with the easiest one to prepare... The shake! as I was, with my other hand, cutting the Fine Herbs Tofu in slices and putting it in the grill. When the shake was ready I started sipping it, while, with my now free hand, I was cutting some green squash, and some other veggies and put it them in my bamboo steamer. I seasoned everything with some powdered cilantro, and some dried parsley. Five minutes later, everything was ready to be eaten.

I had never tasted Tofu before in my life. To tell you the truth, I thought it was gonna be awful! But, surprise, surprise! I actually liked the taste of it! Since it also was my first day at work, and thought I was probably gonna be hungry at some point in the afternoon, I prepared another chocolate shake with water, instead of soy milk. I had also bought, at the health food store, something you mix in the water... something that prevents you from holding water in your body, which by the way I found out that if you retain water in your body, it later becomes fat in your body! Who knew!!! Definitely not me! So, besides preparing the water to take with me, I even used it with my shake!

Mid-afternoon... Just as I thought, I was hungry again! Drank my chocolate shake... But was still hungry. Since I can only have a couple of those shakes a day, I tried filling my stomach with the water I brought to work. Didn't work!

By the time I got home, I was famished! This time I prepared a more generous slice of Tofu, and decided to try the Seitan, with some veggies as garnish. Wasn't completely satisfied, but it was late, and didn't want to go to bed on a full stomach anyways.

But this morning... I got up not feeling hungry at all! So, had my morning tea, went to the gym, had a banana, and when I got back at home... made myself a big chocolate shake. Now I was feeling full! So, instead of having lunch at noon (cause I was satisfied, still) I decided to wait a couple more hours. Still, I left everything ready. Cut some Seitan this time, fresh dill... and made something, a recipe the lady from the health food told me how to prepare: A thick sauce made with squash, onions and a little bit of soy milk. Once the veggies were tender (cooked in their own water) added the soy milk, let it heat a little bit more, and then, used a hand-held food processor to turn the whole thing into a thick and very tasty sauce! Lunch was delicious!!!! And for the first time since I started, I felt really, really full!

Made another shake, and prepared another bottle of water to take with me... but I only drank the water! I was so full still that couldn't manage to have my wonderful chocolate shake! I returned home with it, hoping that I could use it for dinner... but as it turns out, the tapeworm I thought lived in my intestines and crawled endlessly inside of me, lol... left me alone tonight! Incredible! I would have never guessed I could satiate myself with proteins alone! But I did!!!! Yeah! I guess it is a building up thing. First day you get used to it, the next day it really starts to work!

And by the way... Remember I told you today was scale day... Well, I weighted 10 lbs less than 4 days ago!!!!!!!! Now I am at 34 lbs, and it has only been 4 days since I started! I am so excited! It is one of those little things that make you want to go on with it, cause you realize the sacrifice is paying off!

So now, it is 34 lbs in 58 days! The countdown is really starting to look promising. My belly looks kinda big, still... But some pants are starting to close, without choking me to death! Lol

I know now that tomorrow is gonna look even brighter for me, and that I can really cope with the whole schedule! It is a relief, really! Thank heaven for Tofu, Seitan, the choco shakes, and the lady with amazing recipes! I will go back to the scale in one week from today... I wanna be pleasantly surprised again. I hope it doesn't disappoint me. That would really be horrible! But I have confidence in what I am doing, health has to come first, always! And I am on the road to a healthy me!