All right everyone, it's day 15 and I'm down a total of 14.2lbs!!!  How about that? And overall it's been with minimal effort!! Although, I have to come clean with you all, I cheated a bit over the weekend.  Yesterday I had 2 pickles.  It's tough over the weekend.  It was miserable and rainy yesterday, so I was just sitting around the house with my dog and I was a bit bored, especially watching the Dolphins lose again, so into the kitchen I saundered, looked in  the fridge and saw the pickles.  They were of the half sour variety, and on the label it said less than one gram of carb with no fat or protein so I had two, and they were good.  Apparently it didn't matter much, because I still lost weight.

Weekends are the worst for this program.  It gets you out of your habit or routine and can give you too much free time to sit and think of all the things you are going to want to eat when you are able to.  Or maybe that's just me.  I'll just sit and watch the Food Channel and look at all the stuff I want to eat.  Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives is especially torturous.  All that big, cheesy and greasy food makes me hungry.  So that's what I found to be the most difficult part of the program.  The weekends.

At times like now, when I'm hungry, I'll fix some green tea or yerba mate tea with some lemon or lime and the hunger goes away.  It makes it easier at work because I don't keep any food here anyway, just the tea, and if I'm having a good day, I'm too busy to eat anyway, or to think about eating until lunch when I go home, make my little meal and have my apple.

That's all for today, see you next time,

Dr. Friedman