Day One!

I haven’t had much sleep. I have one of those persistent cough things, and didn’t want to do what I usually do, which is keep sucking on lozenges all night. So I hardly got any sleep. Now I have a stinker of a headache. Great. Apparently you get headaches because of the drop in carb intake, but I suspect my headache is more to do with lack of sleep. I was surprised how tasty the banana shake was, but then I was always a sucker for those artificial tasting banana chewits sweets. The difficulty this morning was remembering not to eat anything. I almost downed one of those probiotic drinks before I remembered that it was out. And my first cup of tea went down the sink before passing my lips because I had made it in my half awake state with milk.
I was so busy clearing out the fridge and doing the washing, it has got to 2.30 and I haven’t even thought about lunch.

It’s too hot for soups. If I were not on this diet I would have already tucked into a cheese and salad baguette, and would be on my third diet coke, my fifth cup of milky tea, and possibly a crunchie. The vegetable soup is okay. Cup – a – Soup –ish as expected, but not vile. The choices were Mushroom (NO WAY! I hate mushroom anything, bleurgh.) Chicken, (I don’t eat chicken in real life, so not to gone on the idea of chicken soup), Thai Chilli, and Vegetable. I got mostly vegetable, as I suspect I will hate the Thai Chilli, which means I now will be eating mostly vegetable soup for the next while. It is a pity that they don’t have more flavour options. Onion soup or tomato soup for instance. I have had two drinks of water with the fruits of the forest flavour, and it is not great to be honest. However, I can see it’s value when you want a change from plain old H20. I am addicted to Diet Coke, and it can’t be more horrid than that once you get used to it? I didn’t think the 4 litres a day would be a problem, but it is 5pm on a very hot day, and I am only about 2 litres in, and that [i]includes[/i] the 400ml from the foodpacks. I bought some decaff Earl Grey to sip on tonight, and some sparkling water. So will just have to get used to sipping away. Pretend it is wine! Tea without milk is a bit odd. But some people think tea without sugar is odd, so it’s a taste thing.