Day 3: Eat all the soup, fruit, and veggies you want. Do not have a baked potato. If you have eaten for three days [as specified], and have not cheated, you will find you have lost 5 to 7 pounds.

Today was hard. Yesterday’s temptations were nothing compared to today’s. It went like this:
Breakfast – red apple
Lunch – Fuji apple
Skipped the noon workout and instead went with Gym Trainee to pick up her son so that he could be with us when we do the rooftop fireworks celebration later in the evening.
Tried not to smell the food as the three of us went to a Mexican restaurant to pick up burritos for Gym Trainee and her son.
Avoided the BBQ some coworkers were sponsoring in the parking lot in honor of Independence Day, altho I couldn’t avoid coworkers talking about how delicious and plentiful the food was.
Tried not to see the burritos that Gym Trainee and her son devoured in front of me while I angrily drank some vegetable water soup.
Afternoon snack – remainder of the baby carrots left over from yesterday, which I shared with Gym Trainee’s son who’s apparently a carrot freak. Thank goodness, cuz I am sick of carrots. And all other veggies. And fruits.
Dinner – Declined coworkers’ invitation to join them at Outback Steakhouse.
Gym Trainee wanted a light dinner of smoothies, and we walked across the street to a smoothie place. As we passed Cold Stone Creamery, however, Gym Trainee’s son decided he wanted ice cream for dinner. So we went in where he got some crazy ice cream concoction and Gym Trainee got a smoothie, and I tried not to drool as I inhaled sweet ice cream and warm waffle cone aromas, noting that the scent molecules I’m inhaling are richer and higher in calories than what I’d eaten all day.
I crankily drank the rest of the soup. At this point Mr. W came by and met up with us, a delicious looking sandwich wrap in hand, and the tortilla looked to be tomato basil. Argh.
In the evening when we attended the rooftop firework celebration, I was confronted by a cupcake cake (bunch of chocolate cupcakes positioned close to each other and frosted together to look like a cake from the top), which I declined. Ate another apple instead.

The firework show was great, but I was exhausted at the end of the evening. In retrospect, it was probably less physical tiredness than starvation. I still think it’s weird that I’m this hungry on the diet, since I’m eating more on this diet than I normally do. I don’t think I lost 5-7 lbs, though. I was right that I don’t have that much stored-up crud in my system that has to be cleansed out. When I got home, I ate a mixed salad but cheated by adding a dollop of blue cheese dressing. Well, I’m not sure if it’s cheating, because the diet instructions don’t say I can’t use salad dressing. Now I’m at the beginning of a long weekend, and I’m still on this diet thing. Guess Mr. W will be having his meals without me. I really didn’t think this through.