Atkins, Day Eight

Today I didn't have anything explicitly due, though I have an abundance of work I should be doing. Instead I've found myself enjoying the sunshine, painting, and similar.

• 12:30 pm - scrambled eggs & Italian breakfast sausages, 16 oz Diet Coke
  
  


• 2:00 pm - 16 oz Diet Coke, One-a-Day WeightSmart multivitamin, chromium picolinate


• 8:35 pm - 16 oz water


• 8:43 pm - mint green tea with half & half and Splenda
  
  


• 9:40 pm - 2 tbsp extra creamy Cool Whip, 1/2 slice deli turkey, handful salted mixed nuts, baby dill pickle


• 10:15 pm - broiled pepper-edged steak, green beans with garlic butter, 16 oz Diet Coke
  
  


• 10:27 pm - handful mixed nuts, 16 oz Diet Coke


• 11:39 pm - sugar-free cherry Jello with extra creamy Cool Whip
  
  

Today was a really good day. In the midst of having so much work to do, I genuinely enjoyed myself. My boyfriend went to the grocery and got a bunch of tasty things - you can see at my 9:40 listing that he had just gotten home and we were both grazing over the items as we put them away.

It's funny, but mint green tea is becoming one of my favorite treats. I'm going to have to get a box of it because this was my last bag from a variety pack.

We discovered that having Cool Whip around the house is super-dangerous. Though it's only a few grams of carbs per serving, it's immensely difficult to limit oneself to only one serving. My boyfriend kept wandering over to the fridge and taking out spoonfuls or over-serving himself on his Jello. I was considerably more restrained, and I found that having the Cool Whip with cherry Jello is an unbelievably satisfying dessert.