Ground zero

Hubs and I are starting the P90X exercise and fitness program today. We're following the meal plan provided with the DVDs.

Day 1: part 1:

This meal plan seems so counterintuitive. I want to lose weight, not bulk up.

Breakfast:

mushroom omelet (let's be honest, it was more scrambled than folded)

6 egg whites

3/4 cup fresh mushrooms

2 Tbs. chopped green onions

1.5 oz. fat free cheddar cheese

6 oz. yogurt

1 cup fresh strawberries

OK, so the egg white scrambled eggs were better than I thought they would be. I was imagining something like that dried out part around the edges of a fried egg. It was nothing like that. Tasted pretty much like scrambled eggs and I loved the green onions and fresh mushrooms! I didn't realize how much cheese 1.5 oz. is. A lot.

Strawberries: good. Yogurt: good.

Overall everything tastes good, but there is so much of it! Hubs and I both felt nauseous at one point, as we struggled to choke it down.

Midmorning snack

Power bar

I was surprised how quick it was time for a snack. Also, that I was actually slightly hungry for it even after such a monster breakfast.

The power bar didn't taste too bad, but it has a weird unnatural sweetener taste. I was supposed to eat a yogurt too but didn't. For. Shame.

Lunch

Chef's salad

2 cups romaine lettuce

3 oz turkey ham

3 oz turkey

1/4 cup hearts of palm (we used canned since we can't get that fresh here)

1.5 oz of fat free mozzarella cheese

1/2 roma tomato (which hubs confused me by calling a romaine tomato.)

I omitted the avocado, not because I don't like it, but because we were running out of time.

Again, there's a lot of food here. Not so much I nearly puked, like this morning, but a lot. And meat, meat, meat! There's more meat than lettuce, people. I like a little meat with my salad, not the other way around.

Also, again, 2 tbs. of dressing and 1.5 oz. of cheese is a lot!

My snack this afternoon is 12 almonds and, I suppose, the missed yogurt.

I am not really looking forward to supper. It sounds good, but like even more food than breakfast.

And I am totally not looking forward to the exercising part. But that's the whole point of stuffing all this protein down our gullets.

And, no, I am not telling you my starting weight. Maybe after I have lost 20 pounds and I am proud as $#it.