Day 137, Week 22?

I think it's 22...

Okay so San Francisco was cold!  Friend runs warm.  She has the windows open with shorts on and she's sweating!  I'm in a hat, gloves, scarf, coat, sweatshirt and blanket and my teeth were chattering!  It was nuts!  I am soooo tired of being cold and my building is cold!  I hate this!  I can't wait until my metabolism gets to a point where this doesn't have such a profound effect on me!

So food!  Day 2 of eating I had blackened salmon in downtown San Diego.  Now, I am only supposed to have a 3oz piece of chicken or fish...no salt or salty seasons.  I can add herbs, but no butter or oil.  The salmon had some kind of oil (olive I suspect) on it.  Here I am in a nice fancy place squeezing my fish between two napkins to get the oil out!  It was delish though.  Day 3 of eating, now we are in San Francisco.  I had smoked albacore!  AMAZING!  What a wonderful place to go back to food at!  I ate 2.5 oz because I wanted to leave room for an oyster!  YUMMAY!  Day 4, this day I can add a half of veg.  Catherine says she has smoked salmon at the house.  It's the kind you put on a bagel :o(  Nothing to write home about, but I had a 1/2 cup of steamed green beans...I added a little rosemary and basil and YUM!  I was so full after the green beans, mind you I still had to have 2 shakes after that!  Day 5 I had seared ahi.  WOW! and braised artichokes, once again there was oil so I had to put each artichoke piece and wipe with a napkin, but oh my WOW!  We are back home tonight so I will have grilled chicken with steamed zucchini for dinner.

The way the break down for weening me off food is 5 shakes and 3 oz of lean meat for 3 days.  Then 4-5 shakes from day 4-7 where I have 3 oz of lean meat and 1/2 cup steamed veg.  On Day 8 just 4 shakes but I add 2 cups of salad and 1/2 of chopped raw veg to salad with everything else.  I can only handle 4 shakes now that I added the veg.  I have to still have the 2 soups with the soy sauce because of the low heart rate thing.  Believe it or not that's a lot of food.  I'm not ever hungry!

So how do I feel?  Like I am sooo done!  I am so anxious to not be having shakes and yet I am scared to not have the shakes.  It's nuts!  I do my daily OA reading and on Thursday I plan to attend the OA step study meeting at lunch time.  Working out...I'm doing it.  My calves are sore, but I'm sticking to it.  Not hard in San Fran we did oodles of walking.  I plan to do the bike from hell tonight.  The step will hurt my sore calves even more so I will save that for Wednesday!