Day 4: BANANAS AND SKIM MILK. Eat as many as 3 bananas and drink as many glasses of water as you can on this day along with the soup. Bananas are high in calories and so is the milk, but on this particular day your body will need the potassium and the carbohydrates, proteins, and calcium to lessen your cravings for sweets.

If you guys know me, you’ll know how funny today is, cuz I don’t eat bananas and I don’t drink milk. I have not drunk milk in years due to being lactose intolerant, and I’ve stopped eating bananas for a couple of years after learning they tend to make you fat. However, I’m following this diet as closely as I can, so I had a banana for breakfast, then had a glass of 1% milk. The milk tasted funny to me, like it was too rich. I can imagine that if I drank whole milk now, I’d vomit. Anyway, I swallowed 3 acidophilus tablets with the milk and didn’t have much of a problem with it. I highly recommend acidophilus tablets to anyone lactose intolerant; it’s enabled me to eat ice cream again and drink milk, apparently. For lunch, I took Busykitty Vanessa‘s advice and made myself a smoothie with a banana, milk and ice. It was surprisingly delicious! An hour later I had some of the vegetable soup.

I’m not craving sweets, but I am craving crusty French bread like you wouldn’t believe. I saw Ross and Rachel eating it on an episode of “Friends” on TV earlier. I’m trying to drink a little more water today, too, which had me going to the bathroom pretty frequently. Mr. W wanted to go to our new neighborhood to watch the Lake’s fireworks, and I peed twice before we left, but still had to go once we got to our new house and wandered in the back yard for awhile. As we were leaving the house, we drove by a bunch of people in the neighborhood walking in the same direction with fold-up lawn chairs on their backs, so we parked and followed them. Turned out they found a perfect spot to watch the Lake’s firework show, which was SPECTACULAR and three times as long as the city firework show we caught last nite. This was definitely a wealthy town. We also explored a park within walking distance from the new house, and it’s beautiful! Playground plus BBQ area at one side, an entire professional-sized soccer field on the other, walking paths around and throughout. And the best part, a bunch of bunnies hopping around in the twilight! But as I’d worn out my Kegel muscles by this time, we soon drove back to Mr. W’s house, with him making fun of my bladder urges the entire trip back and then some. The first time I’ve had to pee while we were out whereas HE goes thru this 9 times out of 10, and he doesn’t let me hear the end of it. Sheesh. He said I’m like a child and that I should’ve prepared myself better knowing he wanted to spend the evening out watching fireworks, but since I’d peed twice before leaving, I demanded what he expected me to do to “prepare better”, go back in time 4 days and not start the diet?

Speaking of bad timing on starting this diet, I’m slowly adopting a theory that maybe this is the PERFECT time to be on this diet. Just by the sheer quantity of temptation that I’ve had to turn down in the past few days, if I weren’t on this diet, I may have eaten a ton of stuff I have no business eating, and had I not had this reason to reject offered food, I may have even gained weight this week. So that was a close call, good thing I arbitrarily started this diet!

Here’s a new concern I came up with talking to Bridesmaid Sandy earlier. Knowing my body, and especially if this is a fad diet, I won’t lose anything substantial. What if my cravings for deprived food is so intense this week that as soon as this diet’s over, not only would I have not lost anything, but I’ll eat everything in sight next week and GAIN weight? Ack, time for a weigh-in…

117.8 lbs. Not bad. Of course I’ve had virtually no solid food today.