Day 1 - For Real

After what seemed like a long wait to me, I am officially on the Decision Free Very Low Calorie HMR Diet. I will be drinking nothing but shakes for the next 12 weeks or however long it takes me to lose the weight I need to lose.

The information from my blood tests and EKG is good. Almost all of my numbers are in healthy range. I am a little high on the LDL Cholesterol (the bad stuff), but my overall cholesterol number was still under the limit for normal. My blood pressure is a little high lately too, but the diet will take care of that pretty quickly. So I don't have any major health obstacles to overcome with the diet. That is good to know.

The class was fine. They taught us (me and two other new women) all the different types of numbers we are going to have to keep track of. I thought this was going to be easy. Drink the shakes. Don't eat anything else. Simple. What is there to keep track of? Well, they want details. What flavor shake did I have and when did I drink it? What kind of exercise and I doing, for how long, at what intensity and when? All the little numbers go into neat little boxes on a form and the numbers are tallied for the weekly class posting. Yes, Virginia, you have to tell others what you did for the week. A little public pride/shame never hurt anybody.

I won't be posting all the boring little numbers on the blog. Although, it is very satifying to fill in the little boxes in my journal. It just isn't interesting enough for blogland. I will say that today is going fine and the chocolate shake mixed with some fat-free sugar-free cheesecake flavored pudding is a little slice of heaven. Yum.