I used to have a separate site for diet journaling, but I never kept up with it so I’m just going to make my comments here. I realize not everybody wants to read this stuff, so I’m going to hide it.

Yesterday was my first day on Diet to Go. The food was actually quite tasty. I am on the vegetarian plan, of course, and I’m doing the 1200 calorie version; the 1600 calorie version is the same stuff in larger portions. I started with Week 2 for some reason, but I had already had dinner by the time I picked it up on Tuesday so I now have a spare Tomato Vegetable Pie. It feels really dense, so I might save it for a dinner when I’m feeling hungry; otherwise I will just give it to A.

Yesterday morning’s Golden Oat Scone was pretty decent. It was in a muffin cup, so I figured it wasn’t really a scone, but it did have scone-like texture rather than muffin-y texture. The orange marmalade came in its own tiny cup, but I was eating in the car so I just ate the marmalade plain rather than actually putting it on the scone. For some reason the “Delicious Apple” was replaced by orange juice. At lunch, the Tuscan Bean Salad was actually quite good; I could have eaten more! (That’s the point of Diet to Go, though…portions are heavily controlled.) Dinner was Vegetable Ravioli and Chocolate Mousse. The ravioli was fine - again, I wanted more - but the mousse was kind of weird. I had A try a tiny bit (not a lot, there wasn’t much there!) and she said it was more like ice cream, but I tasted a bit of chemical flavor in it. Desserts are not usually included: the next time I get one will be a piece of angel food cake on the 16th. (My birthday is on the 18th, though, so I’m not sure what I’m going to do about dinner and/or dessert for that day.) You get fruit and juice pretty often, so I’m hoping it won’t be too hard to stay away from treats - last night I had an apple and a couple of mini meringue cookies. Unfortunately my mother-in-law has given our household tons of cookies, so that’s going to be annoying.

Actually, I’m kind of wondering what to do about snacks in general. I figure an extra apple a day is probably okay. They have a menu of snacks you can buy from them; regular baked Lay’s is on there, as is fat-free yogurt, so I can buy those myself. But during the day (like right now) I want things, and I am trying to go cold turkey. Work does not help with this: yesterday somebody brought in trail mix, and I had two almonds, half a peanut, and a raisin. Today I have had a tic-tac and I might have another before lunch. (Which, incidentally, is hummus and pita and carrot-raisin salad.) This whole thing about having ALL foods prescribed is feeling kind of weird, but I know I have to stick to it if it’s going to help. For the record, I was 187.5 on Tuesday night, which is pretty much my highest weight ever give or take half a pound or so.