This morning, I weighed 141.6#, up 0.6# from yesterday. Today is my last day on the 500 calorie a day part of the hCG diet.
Yesterday, I bought an unsweetened iced tea at a fast food restaurant. It turned out to be bitter. Normally, I would fix bitter tea by adding a little sugar, no more than a packet. Since I’m on such a strict diet, that wasn’t an option. The only other sweetener option was aspartame. They did not have saccharin, which would have been my first choice of commonly provided sweeteners. I went ahead and used the aspartame this time. I decided that it would be a good idea to keep packets of stevia sweetener such as Truvia in my purse in case I encountered bitter tea again in the future.
In the evening, I portioned out some chicken. As I was putting chicken into the baggies, I realized that I was portioning out more servings than I would need to complete the 500 calorie a day part of the diet. The feeling was, “Ooh! How cool!” I had little scraps of fatty bits left over from the portioning. I cooked those up in coconut oil for the dog. Tomorrow, I will be able to fry my meat in coconut oil if I want to.