Day One

Ok, so it's the end of day one. I've decided that the diet itself will probably be the easier part of this new lifestyle. Being vegetarian for a good chunk of my life, and vegan off and on for many years, I think the restrictive diet and even social challenges will be something that I will be able to easily manage. The difficult part for me will be 1. diet coke and 2. sodium intake. I don't think either of these things are specifically touched on with a RC diet, but it just feels if i want to do this right, I really need to be trying to be healthy in all aspects. 

I did much better than I thought I could with sodium. I consumed 929 mg. I'm no expert on numbers yet, but according to the nutrition calculator I'm using that's only 38.73% of my dv. This is waaaaay better than I ever would have expected of myself. We'll have to see if I can keep it up.

My other downfall, diet coke.  Today I only consumed 8oz of diet coke (a great achievement verses my usually 3 LITERS per day). I did not however consume all the water I know my body needs. I drank a measly 16 oz. I feel like that girl on Baby Mama, who takes a big gulp of water then spits it every where yelling "what is that?! that's terrible!!". So....the end of day one and I'm thirst and have a bad headache, but I'm determined to kick my bad habits and start reaping the benefits of a truly healthy lifestyle.

Also, I did indeed pick up a book today before work. I couldn't find the Beyond 120 year diet book, so I picked up The Longevity Diet. I'm looking forward to reading it. I skimmed through it earlier and I can tell it will be very educational and helpful. 

I'm currently using livestrong.com The Daily Plate to record and track my intake, but I think I might have to look into one of the nutritional tracking tools listed in the book, since LiveStrong only tracks calories, fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbs, sugar, fiber, and protein and does not take and vitamins or nutrients into account.

So here's my totals for day one: (unfortunately lacking in real nutritional data)

calories 1,142  fat 19g  cholest 40mg  sodium 929  carbs 218g sugar 110g fiber 42g protien 47g