Day 19-20 and shellfish are now good for us

Last night's dinner: clams with garlic and onions.
Good taste, bad breath!

Thursday's weight: 213.2 lbs
Friday's weight: 212.0 lbs
Goal: 190 lbs

Several days of actual progress with no backsliding.  My wife has been experiencing the same too.

Without much fanfare, we are now on the second Cycle of the 17 day diet.  What does this mean?  On the good side, we get to eat shellfish, not of the fried variety of course.  On the "sounds good but not really too exciting side", we get to eat some starchy vegetables and legumes,  like potatoes, sans all the things that make said starchy vegetables and legumes tasty, like butter.  We can have fat-free sour cream though.  Oh, and only before 2PM.  Yeah, it's like Gremlins.

We are also allowed to have amaranth and quinoa now, as well as breadfruit.  I think I'll pop right over to Market Basket and pick some quinoa up.

That's on odd days.  On even days it's the Cycle 1 foods.  This will be a pain to keep up with.

The exercise part of the diet is still hard to achieve with our schedules.  We're hoping to get in another snowshoeing adventure today, and I'm planning one with some friends tomorrow as well.  Keeping up the energy level for this is hard, but maybe my plain, pre-2PM potato and some grilled quinoa (is that what you do with quinoa?  maybe quinoa kebabs instead?)  will help.