Day 1 Summary: THIRSTY and HAPPY

Day 1 of RESET was a piece of cake (pun intended.) I'm not fooling myself though; there is plenty of time for this to take a turn for the worse and resemble a scene out of The Exorcist, but I'm hopeful and committed.

I started my day with a vanilla shake made in my personal blender with 12 oz of water. I used our filtered water that wasn't super cold, and I think that impacted my shake. The powder smelled like vanilla pudding, and the flavor once mixed was like cookies and cream, sans the cookies. I'm not a huge fan of vanilla, so I can definitely see mixing in some fruit and using the vanilla as a smoothie base after these 5 days are up.  I think tomorrow my vanilla shake is going to be introduced to some wild blueberries.

I also choked down the AM packet of supplements. I am a terrible pill taker, but I managed. The supplements are hard core, they made me a little nauseous, but not too awful. I'm hoping after a few days I tolerate them better. (Unrelated...Safari auto-corrected my poorly spelled 'nauseous' to 'anuses'...NICE)

Between the shake and the supplements, I was SO THIRSTY all day. I cleared 50 oz of water by 10 am, and I'm wrapping up my 7th 24 oz bottle right now before bedtime. I haven't consumed this much water since I trekked through the desert in Rajasthan.  But I was also my thinnest then, so bring it on.  If this food emulates me being in a desert for 3 weeks, rock on with that. I've often considered moving to India to get thinner.  LOL.  How's that for drastic.  Although I do love that place...

Anyways, I had a peanut butter crunch bar for my AM snack, and that was super tasty like a candy bar. Chewy, nutty & chocolatey--and not that fake chocolate flavor either. It was definitely a treat. I'm trading this for the oatmeal bar tomorrow morning.  The PB one will be more of an afternoon indulgence, which I think will be great.

For lunch, I had a strawberry shake mixed in my blender bottle with 12 oz of ice cold water. MUCH BETTER with the cold water, and the blender bottle did a good job mixing the shake, no clumps at all. The strawberry flavor was quite good, and that surprised me because I don't care for strawberry flavored things at all. It tastes like those Baskin Robbins hard candies.  And yes, I forgot to take the photo BEFORE I drank the shake.  I'll try again tomorrow!

I also had a nice salad for lunch with my Newman's Olive Oil and Vinegar dressing, which is legal by the way. It doesn't have any added sugar so it is good to go if you are looking for a bottled dressing.

I had a longer gap between lunch and my PM snack than I would have liked, but I forgot I had a late meeting today. I ate my oatmeal raisin bar when I got home from work, which was an hour later than it should have been. This bar reminds me of the Quaker Oats breakfast bars, again, very tasty.  This bar is about 1 1/2 times the physical size of the peanut butter crunch bar, but similar nutritional content.

I had planned to have another salad for dinner with a chocolate shake for "dessert," but I wasn't hungry enough. So I made my shake with 12 oz of water and a big handful of ice. Can you say YUM? I mean, it was actually tasty. I was very pleased with this as it was a perfect treat to end the night.

I also took the PM supplements, only after I fished 3 of them out of the Harry Dog's mouth. I cut the pack open and that quickly forgot that I had, and dumped them all over the floor. And the floor is clearly HD's territory.  And yes, I still took them. 3 second rule even for the dog's mouth?  Only because I don't have extra supplements at the moment and I feel they are THAT important to the process.

So far, I've not been hungry and the shakes and bars have not left me feeling sad about using meal replacements--AT ALL.  If you ask JTP, she'll tell you that was one of my original concerns that I brought to her when I decided to start the conversation about RESET.  If anything, it is really nice to know that for 5 whole days, I don't have to even think about what I'm eating, I just get to eat it.

I also listened in on my first group call tonight.  I think I'll arrange a separate post about that because I have some observations regarding some of the other folks trying RESET right now.  While I wish them all success, I definitely see versions of my "old" self in them, overanalyzing everything and focusing too much on numbers and not on principles.  I really feel for this to work, you've got to get over the counting of anything and embrace good habits and good choices.

Some lessons I've learned so far:

1.  Buy longer straws.  They fall into my blender bottle.
2.  Make sure the lid is snapped shut on the blender bottle BEFORE shaking.
3.  Keep the vitamins out of the dog's reach.
4.  Be prepared to pee ALOT.