Well, it wasn’t so much a 1 day diet as it was a 1 meal diet. And it was definitely a failure. And it wasn’t actually a diet at all, but a combination of my doing anything to avoid fast food for breakfast (for some reason, my husband wants McDonald’s every Saturday) and also doing anything to avoid cooking.
So, I had a small salad and about 1/4 cup leftover macaroni and cheese. I thought this would be enough since hubs and I were supposed to go for a walk and run a few errands and then we’d be home and I could grab another snack. But nooooo. He’d gone to his parents to help install something which ended up taking much longer than he’d planned. So, an hour or so after breakfast, I’m hungry again. Thing is, I’m insulin resistant, so just like a diabetic I can’t just “stick it out”. So, I opened a can of red beets and ate about 1/3 of it. An hour later, still waiting, and getting sick to my stomach, I pulled a piece of gingerale bread (beer bread but made with gingerale instead of beer- also 1/2 the flour is made up of stone ground whole wheat and organic rye) out of the freezer (I used all natural gingerale and no preservatives when I baked it so it keeps better frozen) and toasted it and added a little bit of fruit preserves and a tiny bit of butter as well as a very small, super thin slice of raw (unpasteurized) smoked cheddar.
This worked much better. Husband came home soon after and we went on a short walk and then hit the stores. And, of course, I got hungry again. And woozy. And low blood sugar. So despite the fact that I’d just bought 3 lbs of fresh fish, we ordered out (don’t worry, we’re having half the fish tomorrow and the rest is getting frozen).
Pizza. And chicken fingers.
So much for trying to eat healthier. So much for trying to get hubs to eat healthier (who shared the pizza and chicken fingers but who also had McDonald’s for breakfast). Oy. Well, there’s nothing for it now- the day’s meals are spoiled, so it’s time to break out the ice cream and booze. 
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I think I see the problem, Lori – no protein. You get trace amounts of protein from the cheese, but you need something much more substantial. Try this – three egg whites, basil, fat-free mozzarella, and a little salt/pepper. make yourself a little omelette. The eggs will keep you going much longer and the lack of yolks omits so much fat and cholestrol. I think Weight Watchers puts this in at 5 or 6 points.
If you don’t do eggs, do a handful of nuts. You have to have more for breakfast or you’re going to be snacking all day.
Stupid diets!!! I hate trying to eat healthy. Sean is obsessed…makes mealtimes kinda difficult for us!
Lori- You’re definitely right there. I normally would have a handful of nuts in a situation like that, but I ran out and the grocery bills have been so high lately, that it’s just another $8 that I don’t want to spend. I do pretty much hate eggs (except dippy eggs which would involve toast, and soft boiled eggs which I suck at making), but it’s a good idea to keep in mind for emergencies. I LOVE basil, and I think it makes pretty much anything edible.
Colleen- *lol* I’m fascinated with nutrition, and I’m great at it in theory. The problem is, I get so sick of cooking make-do meals for work during the week, that weekends I end up scrounging for whatever is almost edible. But if it makes you feel any better, I posted this to prep it for a nice juicy l!nk to be used at a later date.
Schnooks! Just found this place, and wanted to tell you that I just looked up the term “orthorexia nervosa”. It was coined by a doctor who wrote a book, “Health Food Junkies”. Just a word of caution. Ha! Love you, and all the research you’re doing. Probably should have sent this as a private email, (oxymoron?) but thought you could take it and blog on it. Love you