Day 52: Still Trudgin'

Although I did write a day 51 post, I found it was to whiny to post.  So alas, I am still in the valley and truly rounding up the caboose of emotions for team cookie monster.  I think waiting for the weekend for my indulgence might be paying it's toll - emotionally, but it's Friday and I really want to wait one more day so that I can have my indulgence Saturday evening.  With another volleyball tournament scheduled for Saturday, I know that having my indulgence then will be worth the wait.

My new diet is once again tough.  Carbs were cut again.  BUT I still got the AMAYW for veggies at lunchtime!  The stomach churns of hunger have left, just like Patrick said they would, but now I just feel munchy in the evening.  Maybe it's because the workouts are a ton tougher this week and truly exhausting.  Adding 1-2 more sets per exercise is killer!  And it was nice to feel tiredness in my arms.  But I broke another band and that's frustrating 'cause all I got left is one.  It's unfortunate these bands don't last longer, but after reading some of the reviews of the set of bands I bought, seems like they weren't praised for their longevity or quality.  Oh well, new bands soon, until then, I'll use the gym bands :)

I do have a question, does dried fruit have the same effect as fresh fruit?  I had some dried fruit yesterday instead of fresh fruit for one of my fruit snacks and well, let's just say I found an enhanced and immediate digestive effect!  I just was totally not in the mood to cut up any fresh fruit I had in the house, weigh out what I was allowed and then bag the rest of the fresh fruit for another time.  So opted for ease of just weighing out the dried fruit and being done with it.  It was a bit tough to eat because although it had a natural subtle sweet flavor, I sure missed the added sugar and preservatives of the previous dried fruit I would eat before PCP.  This dried fruit was purely just that, ingredients: papaya or mango.  Nothing else.