What, Exactly, Is Happening?

This evening I found myself standing next to the roasted turkey breast I had purchased for G to use in a grilled turkey and cheese panini.  I noticed I was eating the turkey.  I don't like turkey unless it is covered in gravy and nestled against a forkful of cranberry sauce.  A big forkful of cranberry sauce.  Eventually, I ingested 7 ounces of plain turkey along with steamed broccoli.

I started the day with two eggs (still didn't get the frying thing right), 2 strips of the precooked bacon (which is too smokey for my tastes) and a toasted piece of whole wheat bread.  I think the bread may be the reason I was hungry all day long but I am allowed one slice a day. When I have the "omelet" for breakfast I am not hungry until after 1.30. The Atkins Plan I am using allows a small amount of carbs each day, if needed.  I guess I do better without.  Or it was the soup. Today I was hungry all day.  I even had to eat my emergency banana at 10 am.  Yes, I know I am not supposed to eat bananas.  Or pineapple.

The soup included allowed Atkins vegetables.  Onion, tomato, celery, kale.  Their own website has the Power Diet Soup which is exactly what I made.  Sort of.  I didn't add the one pound of chicken. Which is probably why I needed to eat all that turkey.  What is happening to me?  I actually WANT to eat meat.  I stood next to the meat counter where the steaks are sold.  Thinking I wanted one.

Everyone else I know who did this diet mentioned craving pasta, bread, rice or rhubarb pie.  Not meat.

I go to sleep feeling full and wake up starving.  I am trying to drink more liquids as I may just be very thirsty.  My energy levels were low today for the first time.  Did any of you (who have done Atkins) find this to be true?  I plan to make the "omelet" tomorrow and just keep that in the fridge to eat for breakfast.  The tuna and salad is good for dinner or lunch.  And tomorrow I plan to return to eating my yogurt with fruit (verboten) and a scoop of protein powder.  I never said I was going to be completely Atkins.

My butt seems smaller.

Rob won Survivor.  Now he can stop playing, I hope.  A million dollars doesn't last long.  I think he just needed to even things up with his wife since she beat him the first time he played and he seems like the kind of guy who needs to be at least as good, if not better, than his wife.  She won a million and he won a million plus 100K.

I got all the laundry done yesterday, the shirts ironed and G & I watched a good chunk of the TiVo backlog.  I never got to the book reading but there is always tonight while DWTS is on.  I bought two new mint plants today and repotted them in much larger pots for the summer.  Mojitos.  I also got Sungold tomato plants.  Tiny, infants.  So small I had to bundle them up with newspaper so they didn't roll around on the drive home.  Twenty days until I plant them in the garden.

It was cold and wet again today at work.  Drizzle.  Seattle weather.  We may not see the sun until Friday.