Day5 of the 5DPT

Hello all. The last day has arrived. I had a protein shake for breakfast and will be enjoying a turkey burger for lunch. Not sure whats for dinner yet.

This wasn't nearly as hard as I anticipated it to be. Not sure if it actually achieved the purpose it was supposed to. But it didn't bother me to do it.

I definately needed something drastic to stick to, to cut out carbs. I am doing quite fine without them, although a cheesesteak sub is sounding SOOOO GOOD right now. LOL

I plan to drink shakes for breakfast, have eggs or tuna type things for lunch, and Chicken/fish/steak for dinner..........for the next week or so. Kinda a mini 5DPT everyday. Still fighting the carb thing so want to keep them out of my system all together for a little while until I introduce a few here and there.

Hope everyone made it through the week. Not many posts yeaterday.

Thanks for sticking with me this week.

ditto to everything you just said. although last night was pretty tough since things were rough at home (I am 100% convinced now that I am a stress eater)

I do not feel as if my pouch is tighter and I am still craving carbs big time. However it was no where as painful as I thought it was going to be. I was never STARVING, although I did notice when I let myself get hungry I craved carbs even more.

I also learned that;

I like protein shakes
Greek yogurt is my friend
and Wawa makes the BEST scrambled egg bowls

So now on to day 6,7,8,9,etc.....let's see if I can keep some of these things I've learned in mind. and more so that I can learn ways to either avoid stress, or to find an outlet (god forbid it be expercise) to replace food when I'm stressing.

Mel, I am wondering if we are the last 2 standing? LOL

Hope the rest of your day goes well. And you resist the carbs over the weekend.

I'm still here. I just been dealing with a pain in the butt teenager. I had a great week and I am so having a beer tonight. I lost 3 pounds but that wasn't my goal. I don't think my pouch got smaller. It is that TOM so maybe I'll feel "tighter" in a few days...lol. I just know my goal was to make my protein goal and this really made me love my protein shakes again so I got what i want out of it and if I ever see the scale start to creep up I will definetly do the 5DPT again.

Thanks!

I blew it at lunch and could not resist the garlic bread. oh well it's 4.5DPT for me I guess.

That's still great. I did eat an Oreo 15 mins ago...I am a stress eater too and since my daughter moved back in 2 weeks ago I've been majorly stressed. I'm just glad get protein goals.

I'm still here toooooo!!!! just not on the boards as early as I hoped to... My carb cravings have not gone away, I guess they never will, but it's clear to me that I need some sort of restrictive approach to eating - I respond so much better to that also.

Thanks for thinking of this and inviting us!
Lou