Week 3 Day 1 The scale's ups and downs

I really should have started this blog earlier instead of now adding all my menus retrospectively... Oh well, at least you know it worked for me so maybe it adds a component of motivation? If you are on the diet too and have suggestions, please feel free to let me know. I am always trying to fill my 500 calories days in the yummiest way possible.

In any cases, at the beginning of week 3, I had lost a total of 2lb. For those of you who are compulsively weighting themselves every morning (I was doing the same before!), I noticed that on this diet my weight would do a type of zigzag curve as in drop after a fast diet day, go back up a little bit on the two days of regular diet, then go further down at the next fast diet day. Knowing that, I decided to only weight myself the morning after a fast day. It keeps me motivated! And it also avoids the urge to add more days of fasting which would irrevocably lead to a decrease in your metabolism. That would ruin everything and you absolutely don't want that!

Week 3 Day 1 Menu:

Woke up late. Didn't have breakfast.

Lunch: approximately 92 calories
- 1 mini babybel cheese, softly melted in the microwave for 10 seconds
- 2 korean rice crackers (they have more air than the regular rice crackers and clock in at about 16 calories each)

Dinner: approximately 375 calories
- 200g pacific salmon fillet, grilled
- 3 cups of baby spinach
- 12 grape tomatoes
- 1 tsp olive oil balsamic vinaigrette
- 1 date sliced in small pieces

Total for the day: 467 calories