No, No, Really. I mean it this time. (Day 1 Redux)

Okay, suffice it to say, celebrating getting my oven fixed Saturday by baking lasagna was a stupid, stupid idea. I'd bought all the ingredients back when my family was in town for Thanksgiving, intending to do that for dinner one of the nights they were here (I make a kick-ass lasagna; the key is V-8). Since the oven busted on Thanksgiving Day (right when I needed it most), I wasn't able to do the original plan. So, to keep from wasting the money on ricotta and mozzarella, I made up three pans of lasagna, and froze them, to be baked later.

Yes. I ate lasagna. A lot of lasagna. Garfield would be jealous. So, Saturday was fully blown. Sunday was great, right up until 11:45, as I was headed to bed, and had to go downstairs to get something from the kitchen. BANG! Hungry as a horse, and the willpower just crumbled. And really, I was doing well up to that point.

So, today, Day 1 (again). What am I going to do different? Well, J turned me on to the fact that I can have two pickle spears per day, plus bullion (he recommends that for the salt...the MediFast meals are very low sodium) and celery, if I could stand celery. Also, sugar-free gelatin is on the list, because it's like 10 calories (and most of those would be protein), so even if I nut out and have a couple, it's not going to substantially affect my diet. I didn't have any Jell-O in the house last night (too lazy during the day to go get some), so the verboten foods got scarfed.

So tonight, on the way home, I'll stock up on sugar-free Jell-O (hopefully the pre-packaged kind, it's a pain to make individual servings from the boil-to-make kind). If I get hungry, I can have the Jell-O without guilt (or more importantly, blowing the diet). On top of that, bedtime will be earlier tonight. If you're used to fresh calories coming in every 2.5 hours, it shouldn't surprise you when you stay up 4 hours or more past your last meal of the day that you're ravenous. So hopefully, early bedtime=no late night feeding binge. Plus, I really need to get more sleep a night anyway.