Day 43: Almost there...

I considered starting Phase 3 today, but I wasn't hungry, so I behaved.  Oh, and I finally lost some weight...I'm down another 0.5 pounds today!  We'll see how tomorrow goes, but I'm anxious to eat some stuff.  Momma brought over some beautiful steaks to grill this weekend (with sautéed mushrooms!), and I'm looking forward to having more than 100 grams of it.  Momma also brought over some yummy-looking cheese.  She really loves me.

I went to the store today, ready to load up on all the goodies we've been missing out on, but I came home disappointed.  I was really looking forward to expanding our vegetable horizons, but much of it didn't look very good, so I settled for yellow squash, zucchini, broccoli, red peppers and stuff for a big giant salad.  A nice MIXED salad with cheese and creamy dressing sounds WONDERFUL, but I had trouble finding salad dressing.  I was looking for something without added sugar (and especially without HFCS), and there was NOTHING--not Ranch, Bleu Cheese, even Italian--without added sugar.  I couldn't even find a mayo without added sugar.  No wonder we're all so fat!!  I've been fretting about what to do...am I really going to have to make EVERYTHING from scratch?  I read through the forum at hCGdietinfo.com to see what the heck other people were using and I found people saying that they will use dressings with up to 3 grams of sugar per serving.  Ugh!  I guess I'll try what I already have in the pantry and see how it turns out for me, but I expect that I need to start looking for some homemade recipes.  

I came across an eye-opening entry on Fooducate.com that lists all of the "aliases" for sugar hiding on ingredient labels.  Check it out: 

Aspartame – marketed as Nutrasweet (artificial, 0 calories)
Acesulfame potassium (acesulfame-K) / E950 -marketed as Sunett / Sweet One (artificial, 0 calories)

Brown Rice Syrup

Brown sugar

Corn sweetener

Corn syrup, or corn syrup solids

Crystalline Fructose

Dehydrated Cane Juice

Dextrin

Dextrose

Evaporated Cane Juice

Fructose

Fruit juice concentrate

Glucose

High-fructose corn syrup

Honey

Invert sugar (golden syrup)

Lactose

Maltodextrin

Malt syrup

Maltose

Mannitol (2.6 calories)

Maple syrup

Molasses

Neotame (artificial, 0 calories)

Raw sugar

Rice Syrup

Saccharin (artificial, 0 calories)

Saccharose

Sucralose – marketed as Splenda (artificial, 0 calories)

Sucrose

Sugar

Sorbitol (2.6 calories)

Sorghum or sorghum syrup

Syrup

Treacle

Turbinado Sugar

Xylose

It's inevitable that I'll have sugar again someday, but I'm definitely trying to stay away from the artificial stuff!

I still need to figure out how I'm going to get active.  My friend tried to talk me into trying an early-morning Zumba class, but I can't imagine that would go well.  Still looking for more ideas....  Does anybody have a suggestion for something I can ease into and still get a good workout???