And it starts today.

For breakfast I had my oatmeal with protein powder. I put the dry oatmeal in a bowl, mixed the powder and water together, added it to the oatmeal, and microwaved. Well...when I brought it out of the microwave it looked like a breast fed baby had spit up in my oatmeal and truthfully it tasted like it too. I know you know what I'm talking about. Little white chunks in a milky fluid splattered all over the place and the milky over done smell. Gross right. Couldn't get any worse right? Well it did. The texture was a lovely combination of rubbery chewiness. I typically really like oatmeal and will eat it regularly. I add a little plain apple sauce and maybe some molasses or jam, it is very good. So I decide to add some apple sauce to my baby spit up oatmeal and it basically just makes more rubbery grossness for me to eat. I add some honey which, you guessed it, just made it a sweeter rubbery grossness. I finished it because the SS asked me to but I actually felt like I might vomit afterwords and I hardly ever ever feel like that. Oh dear, oh dear why did I ever think this would be a good idea? And I have to do this two times a day for sixteen weeks!?!
Whey powder number two. This time I go for the powder in yogurt. I mixed it about an hour before I planned to eat it in an effort to avoid dry chunks and thankfully chunks were avoided. The taste was not lovely but was much better then the oatmeal. But I still didn't like it. Will I ever like it? Who really does this everyday? Do people do this every day? Why?.....
I think I did a pretty good job following all of my eating exchanges rules. As of now I am to eat 9-10 starches, 4 veggies, 2 fruits, 2 dairy, 7 proteins (not including the powder), and 3-4 fats. I found out that these don't represent serving sizes but exchanges and if you google exchange diets you will find out more info. I'm not going to explain it here. But I did a pretty good job and met my quota for the day but I found out that the creamer I added to my coffee probably counted as one starch which means I went over on my starches by one. I find myself craving my end of the day sweet treat and I know that is going to be the struggle for me.
I didn't exercise today but am looking forward to Zumba tomorrow. I will let you know how it goes.