Last day of phase one

My 30 days of 1000 calories/day comes to an end today and tomorrow I start Atkins. I'm glad that I did it but damn it's been rough. On the days that I've been working it hasn't been that bad because I would take a little cooler bag and I would tell myself that the only things I could have until I got home was whatever was in that bag. My days off on the other hand were sometimes a whole different issue.

I think my body knows that there is a switch coming up. I was off Friday (wasn't supposed to be) and it wasn't too bad but I didn't do much of anything that day. Saturday was really bad. I went to the gym in the morning and was feeling really crappy afterwards (combination of not going for the longest time and the diet made me really weak). Because of how I was feeling I had my "lunch" early. By the time 5pm rolled around I was famished and my hunger was back in full force. What wasn't helping was that I was watching one of my favorite PBS documentaries that is about how Hot Dogs are made and served all over the US. I really wanted a hot dog after that, I mean REALLY wanted one. I survived and didn't crack.

Now I'm on my final day and I'm glad it's here. I haven't had my "breakfast" yet but I'm determined to not crack today. The only tough part will be the fact that I'll have to prepare my lunch for work tomorrow and I'm sure that it will be tempting but I'll hold strong. I didn't make it this far to lost it on the last day.

Speaking of last day....how have I done? Well it's been more than a week since I've been able to use one of the Tanita scales (model 3101 Handrail Scale) so I have no official weights for this transition. My bathroom scale however (I don't trust it near as much as the Tanita ones) tells me that I'm 350. So I'm going to do a tiny bit of rounding and call my 30-day weight loss at 30lbs. Once I can get back to one of those scales then I'll have a better idea of how much further I've gone.

30 down and 50 to go before I reach my first goal.

My final goal? You know I haven't decided that yet. I know it will be below 240 for sure but I'm actually toying with the idea of trying to get under 200. I'll set my final goal in the next few weeks and we'll see how reachable it is. I know goal #1 is because I can already see it in my mind.