Day Four, Phase One

It's been a rather boring day today, all in all. But I guess that's a good thing. I haven't really felt hungry or thought about food too much, except after lunch, while I was watching the end of Days of Our Lives, I started to feel munchy, but I think that's b/c I was lingering in the kitchen. I split a slice of swiss cheese with Pippi, my dog, and was fine after that.

Last night's dinner:

• baked chicken (in my v. special marinade, to be posted at a later date)
• baked eggplant, onions, and orange peppers
• salad with... "interesting" sugar-free-fat-free-ranch dressing (I needed a day off from the vinaigrette!)

Today's...

Breakfast:

• poached egg over sauteed spinach and sundried tomatoes
• V-8
• and coffee, of course

1st Snack:

• 4 celery sticks and a wedge of Laughing Cow Light Swiss

Lunch:

• Grilled shrimp (same marinade) over lettuce, onion, cucumber, pepper
• green jello (SF)
• 1/2 slice swiss cheese

2nd Snack:

• 5 slices of cucumber, with another wedge of Laughing Cow spread between all of them, each topped with a caper and a 1" square of nova salmon (lox). Sooooo goooooood!
  

Dinner tonight will be:

• Sirloin
• string beans
• salad

Oh, I made the best ricotta creme dessert EVER last night!
Subbed in coconut extract in place of vanilla, added 1-1/2 splenda packets, blended. Sprinkled top w/unsweetened cocoa powder and just a few slivered almonds, and set in fridge for about 2 hours. By the time I ate it, the cocoa had "melted" into the ricotta and made a kind of chocolate coating on it. I call it my "Almond Joy Creme".