Day 10: More Good News/Bad News

To all the naysayers out there who say the diet is sham because "of course you'll lose weight if you're only eating 500 calories a day," I say this: Not necessarily!  
I'm down another 0.5 lbs today.  Again, I'd like to see a larger loss, but I'll take it.  HS is, as you know, down 0.2 lbs today, and I'm not-so-subtly being accused of sabotage, and I feel like I just can't win.  I've been doing my best to make "flavorable" food to keep HS happy, and I don't know how to be anymore vigilant about the ingredients than I am already.  


Last night, I made beef and broccoli by cutting all of the visible fat off a steak and cutting it into thin slices.  I meticulously measured out 500 grams of the meat (we had another HCGer join us for dinner, who did not lose any weight this morning) and cooked it without any added oil.  I even put the meat in a colander and shook off the fat that cooked out of it halfway through cooking and again at the end of cooking.  I then steamed 2 chopped broccoli crowns in a bit of chicken broth and seasoned both with garlic, red pepper flakes, onion powder, and liquid aminos (a soy sauce substitute with no nutritional values to mess up the protocol).  I eyeballed the broccoli and divided into equally across 3 plates (the Littles had different Asian mixed vegetables and brown rice), and I measured the meat to get it's total weight after being cooked.  That came out to 390 grams, so I measured out 78 grams for each of the 5 plates.  I've thought about it all day, and I can't figure out what I could have done so wrong with that.  Of course, I feel terribly guilty that I may have unintentionally screwed up the diets of my two favorite adult people.  


I made up for it by making a truly craptacular dinner tonight.  I officially do not know how to grill chicken without leaving half of it stuck to the grill and burning the other half.  I couldn't argue when LittleGirl said, "This chicken doesn't even taste good," as it was even worse than my yucky cinnamon microwave-baked apple.  Oh, well...it will be nice if we're both compensated for the horrific chicken  by way of a HUGE loss tomorrow morning!  If not, I have a feeling we'll both be trying out the Sea Salt Cleanse.  (I wonder if it can remove sticks!)

Downer

191.8

Today was my first day with a truly sub-par loss. I put the blame on myself 100%. I was rushing out of the house last night and didn't eat my evening apple. Don't know if this caused such a small loss or possibly SheSchraders' delicious sabotage.

So today it's exactly by the books. Already more than half a gallon down and I expect to have my gallon done before I leave work in a few hours. If more comes to mind I'll grace all of you with a second post. If I don't please have a healthy weekend.