Day 1 HHMD

Today, I begin to follow the Hilton Head Metabolism Diet, to the best of my ability.

It starts out on a Monday. I'm starting out on Saturday, but, following Mondays plan. So far, I'm not in love. Maybe, if I could fully follow it, I would feel better about the experience, so far; but, I can't drink the milk called for in the morning or eat the cottage cheese called for at lunch. So, instead, I had a full Greek non-fat yogurt, vanilla flavored. First, a little on my fruit salad and then the rest, while waiting for the potatoes to cook.

I woke up and began my day somewhere between 6 am - 7 am. It is now 1:07 pm, and, the potatoes are cooking. When they are done, I will cook chicken legs. I can't afford chicken breasts, mostly, so, I bought chicken thighs and legs. I'm pretty sure, thanks to modern engineering, two chicken drumsticks or thighs equal the 5 oz of breast meat called for back in 1983.

So, to sum it up, thus far:

Before breakfast: hot water with 1 tsp. Realemon lemon juice and 1 tsp. ginger powder.
Breakfast: 1 cup oatmeal, with a little cinnamon and 1/2 a banana. (145, 61 = 206)
Lunch: Fruit salad of 1/2 cup strawberries, 1/4 cup cantaloupe, 1/4 cup honeydew melon, a few lettuce leaves, a couple of spoonfuls of the Greek yogurt. (12, 13.5, 13.5 = 39) (245)
Later: The rest of the Greek yogurt (120, for full pkg) (365)
Dinner: Will be two chicken legs, 1 medium baked potato, 1/2 cup of broccoli, 1/2 cup of strawberries, and no yogurt over the strawberries as I already ate it. (210  w/ skin, 161, 27, 12 = 410) (775)
Metabo-meal: Will be two slices toasted bread with cinnamon and maybe Stevia. (240) (1,015)

Hmmph .. It's supposed to be 800 calories. I am going to be 215 calories over. Wow! That's about the amount of calo9ries in the Metabo-Meal. Well, it's still a pretty respectable try. I wonder, though, if I could do better? I mean, find ways to make it more satisfying, less costly, meet the calorie level called for and be more satisfied? Pretty sure I could!

Okay, there is something very wrong here. 5 oz of chicken breast has 230 calories (boneless, skinless) which is MORE than the 2 chicken legs. The cottage cheese would be 51 calories and the skim milk would be 43 calories =94 calories  So, that's 20 more for the chicken breast, and, that takes us to 1,035 calories; but, then, you drop 26 calories for skim milk and cottage cheese, and that takes us to 1,009 calories. So, the original diet plan is already 209 calories over what it said and I was only 6 calories over what it would have come to.

Hmmpph ....

Ah, I found out that wheat bread (some) has far less calories, though. 69 calories per slice. So, I should probably only have 1 slice of the other, I guess, since it has 20 calories less than twice as much. Amazing! Nevertheless, 1,009 - 120 = 889, not 800. So, booh! Still, I will try to keep my bread down to one slice at a time (or, less). I mean, if I had known that, I would have skipped buying the bread, altogether, and, ate more potatoes!

Well, in the long run, I decided to have both slices, anyway. 1,015 calories is definitely not too many calories for a low calorie diet! Maybe it is, according to that one diet plan, but, for a first day of eating super low calorie? No. It's fine.

One thing that I realized is, when it says 1/2 cup strawberries, it does not say if they should be chopped, sliced, or halved. That makes a big deal of difference! I chopped them. If I had only halved them, I probably would have only been able to have one strawberry; but, when I did the calorie count (above) I counted them for the size and amount of strawberries I had, anyway.

I did have a very tiny sip of Dr. Pepper, because, I was outside eating the toast for the Metabo Meal and found it to be way too dry. I was about to get hiccups. My son had his soda out there and my tea was all the way inside.

I did not do the full amount of exercise, partly because my leg is hurting from all the walking I've been doing (and, maybe, the eating of the cheetos before and the Greek yogurt). It's a tendon on my right leg that's really giving me trouble.

I did go on a short walk, earlier today; and, after I ate the toast, I did some arm and chest flexing, followed by a few calve raises and a few good mornings (without weights).