My 2 Milk Days

Milk days are easy for me. The only difficulty I have is trying to keep my mind off food.

I really enjoy the crispy crunchy-ness of fresh raw vegetables and even though I am NOT hungry my mind still wants my mouth to experience the sensation eating fresh fruits and vegetables provides.

So all day I am telling myself to get a new hobby. I have looked thru a dozen knitting books from my local libraries. I even spent yesterday afternoon watching youtube videos on how to knit the continental way. Now I am trying to practice knitting this way but it is looser than the old regular way so I will have to finish my two half completed checker-board 4-knit 4-purl 4-knit 4-purl scarves the old fashion way in which they were begun.

But I am definitely going to try to knit that beautiful cape I was telling you about yesterday using the continental method. It is so much faster. The cape is a relatively simple pattern so I am hoping to sail right thru it. I am going to need help with the border though. I am going to put an ad on craigslist asking for help. Maybe someone will respond.

Yesterday I drank my 2 1/2 cups of milk and then I ate 5 teaspoons of honey about 1am. I definitely was not hungry. I was just bored and wanted to taste something. The milk I drink is 150 calories per cup and the honey is 60 calories per teaspoon. Steven says: he isn't concerned with how many calories I eat. But when I am finished with this program I am going to want to know how many calories I am eating and how many calories I am burning via exercising so I am keeping track of my caloric intake now just for the fun of it.

Including the pound of salmon I've been eating in honor of Shabbos my caloric intake averages over 700 calories a day. {Yikes!!! I've been doing this wrong too - I'm only allowed to eat a total of 8 ounces of protein on Shabbos and I've been eating 8 at night plus 8 during the day - wonder how much more I might could have lost if only I had been doing this part right ????? }

My caloric intake will be less at the end of this cycle because I'm switching to tuna which is only 100 calories per can per 5 1/2 ounces but I figure an ounce and a half of that weight is water which I drain off. That means I can eat 4 cans of tuna a week and still lose weight. Sounds good to me!

I didn't get a chance to read anything more in the diet book but I will try to read the next chapter soon so I can tell you all about it.

Have a nice day!

I finally drank my 2 1/2 cups of milk around 4 o'clock. I drank it all at once. It was delicious: cold and creamy. And oh! so filling. For about an hour my belly felt overly full, almost to the point of discomfort. And when I drank it, I wasn't even hungry. But Steven told me: if you don't eat your body will shut down. I think he meant that it would go into that starvation mode and hold on to everything instead of burning my stored fat. And I don't want this. I already know what it's like to not eat and not lose any weight.

I found another knitted cape in a different library book that I like a lot. It will be a little more sturdier than the previous one I mentioned. But meanwhile I'm still working on crocheting an afgan with flowers on it for my niece so I'm going to keep reading before I make any definite decisions. 

Have a nice night!