Day 1 – Starting the Pancreas Protocol

First thing this morning I weighed myself. Wow. That was a shocker. I weighed in at 222 exactly. Whatever. That is precisely what I'm trying to handle with this program. Last week I weighed 217-218 pretty much the whole week (and the week before). However, since we knew we were starting this “strict diet routine”, we indulged a bit over the past few days. Okay, maybe we indulged a lot.

We had a slice of cheese cake on Thursday, shared a danish on Friday, ate at Carrabba's (split a steak marsala with fettucini Alfredo, and shared a crème brulee among 4 people) on Saturday, then yesterday we shared a pastry after breakfast and had some ice cream and organic Newman's Own Oreo-type cookies (I had 3). Well, there ya go, 4 pounds later and I was quite ready to do something about this morning!

So first thing after I weighed myself, I went to the kitchen and took a tablespoon of KM tonic. Not that great tasting, got to be honest. I am excited that the KM tonic will help alkalize my body though, and feed my body at a cellular level. If it really does this, then I don't really care what it tastes like. I took a few minutes to re-review the diet guidelines and saw that I was supposed to have 2 tbs of KM during the Step 1 phase. I took a second serving (brrahhh). I also fed it to my husband. He seems to like it more that me. That's fine, I'm a big girl and I can manage.

Breakfast
I pulled out 2 omelet meals to make for breakfast. They come in these little foil packets, so I was surprised that when I opened it, the powder actually smells like an omelet. I mixed up the first one with cold water and the powder. I don't know what I expected, but so far, so good. I mixed it up in a mixing bottle with a wire ball that when you shake it up, it actually blends it up and gets rid of the lumps (it's called a Blender Bottle) It works, too. Anyway, I heated up my non-stick frying pan, and sprayed it lightly with my olive oil spray. Once nicely heated, I poured in the “omelet mix” and watched. I didn't let it sit long enough, so mine looked more like scrambled eggs, however, my husband managed to make his right and I was pleasantly surprised to find that they actually tasted decent.

I sprinkled my Himalayan salt on it and enjoyed. One of the things I was worried about initially is how these shiny packets were expected to fill me up. After breakfast though, it is so NOT a problem. I actually couldn't quite finish the omelet and neither could my husband. We ended up leaving probably 2-3 bites each. Overall we were satisfied and the prospect of doing this for a while seems a little more possible.

Snack Time

One thing that may or may not be problematic is that Grant and I are both used to having a mid-morning meal or snack and today doesn't seem to be an exception. At about 11:30 we both felt peckish. What to do?? Well, I did read that it's okay to have extra packaged meals as needed. So we grabbed the vanilla pudding/shake mix to share between us (we're used to sharing food as a method of portion control anyway). I poured out 5 oz of cold water (note to self: keep water in the fridge so it's really cold) and we added the mix. Grant shook it up really good and it actually made the consistency of a pudding. We grabbed two spoons and dug in. Not bad either. In fact, Grant was using his finger to clean the sides of the shaker bottle and the lid. The more we ate, the tastier it seemed. Hmm, maybe we can actually do this???

Lunch
We decided to make the chili mix for lunch. It's a little small as a portion, but pretty tasty, especially when you take some romaine lettuce and fill it with the chili (like a taco). We had a big salad with lots of broccoli sprouts and romaine lettuce. Overall it was pretty good.

Mid Afternoon Snack
Okay, by 3:00pm I was hungry. I made another pudding and ate a little more than half of it. I have got to get more snack items I can eat. I also left a message for my “wellness coach” to find out what I can snack on and to see if we are allowed to have nuts on this diet (I don't think so, but Grant wants to know). Hopefully she will call me back soon.

4:29pm
My wellness coach called and apparently I can have unlimited veggies (from the authorized list at least), and it's okay to have up to 5 meal packets a day. So far I have had 3 because both snacks I shared with Grant. I have to have one before bed, too. I need to get some veggies that are more like finger foods! Nope to the nuts (but I figured as much anyway). I have had nearly 62oz. of water today, but I need to more. I add a slice of lemon to alkalize the water and all in all I feel good.

Dinner
For dinner will made cod fish on the grill. Probably not the smartest way to cook it though. It was the first time I had ever had cod and I was worried that it would taste fishy, but it didn't. We has asparagus and a large salad. I just squeezed lemon on my salad and then sprinkled with the Himalayan salt. It was all quite tasty!

So far as follows:
I'm doing okay. I think it's more mental when you think about actually being on a diet, it's like the knowledge that I'm on a restricted diet is enough to make me feel hungry or anxious or whatever. That's fine. This too shall pass. Other than that, I think I'm fine. My husband, Grant seems a little grumpy compared to usual and he mentioned that he has a slight headache. This is supposedly normal in the first 3-4 days as the body goes through its carb and sugar withdrawals. We'll see. I will have to see what we can do to ease it at least.

We're gonna try the mango peach shake for our evening snack.

I think overall today was okay. We'll see how it goes tomorrow.