Diet Failure

So a couple of weeks ago Jill my co-worker was telling me about this diet that her mom saw on the Rachel Ray Show.  It's called the CINCH! diet.  It's designed by the same person who is behind the Flat Belly Diet. When Jill was telling me about it, I got very intrigued. It sounded like maybe something I could do. It was 5 days of nothing but Spinach, Plain Yogurt, Raspberries, Slivered Almonds, and Eggs. I told Jill I would do it with her because if I had support at work and at home, maybe I could shed a few pounds and steady out my blood sugars. I went home and talked Dan into doing it with me. I assured him that after the 5 days of 5 foods, the 25 days after that would be better because she then goes on to give you some recipes that will be good and healthy.

So we got all prepared. The book gives you the list of ingredients (Including approved spices to go with your 5 foods), and how much of each to buy. Dan and I went shopping and of course I doubled everything because the portions are very controlled.  We read the portion of the book talking about the 5 days and how it works and how we should feel.

We got ready, and.........
YUCK! 
Her measurements sucked!  For the breakfast portion you make 1 egg with 1/4 cup of egg whites. That's pretty simple to understand and measure. But then you add 1 cup of Fresh or Frozen spinach to those eggs and scramble them.  Anyone who has ever compared fresh to frozen spinach will understand my mistake.
1 cup of fresh spinach does not equal 1 cup of frozen spinach.  I don't know, maybe she was thinking ounces, but she said cup.  I'm not a spinach fan in any form other than fresh leaves. But to save money I bought a mixture of both. Put the frozen in my eggs and had to add egg whites so that it was scrambled eggs w/spinach and not spinach w/a bit of egg. AND it tasted just AWFUL!

Next was a parfait.  It was plain no fat yogurt with fresh raspberries and almond slivers. not bad right? WRONG. Plain no fat yogurt is not very good, and the suggested spices did not punch it up one bit.

Next was the only edible meal.  Spinach Salad w/a balsamic-citrus vinaigrette, topped w/raspberries and slivered almonds.  It wasn't bad. Wasn't great, but wasn't bad. Last is the smoothie. Same ingredients minus the spinach. But no good flavor. It was definitely missing the sugar.

It made me sick to my tummy. I was all I could do to gag it down. Poor Dan felt the same way I did. I decided that I wasn't going to force myself to do it if it made me dry heave to the point of actually vomiting.

So I feel like a failure. I am still going to try the recommended recipes for the last 25 day part and see how that goes, but no cleansing of the body for me. *shudders*

I will say this though.  I stopped drinking soda of any kind completely on Monday, and I have not had any carbonated drink since. I'm pretty proud of me. I can feel the effects a little in that my body hasn't gotten used to not getting that caffeine fix in the morning w/my diet Pepsi, but I don't really have much of a craving for it. Now I think it's just habit, and since I have no more soda in the house, and force myself to only do water at work, it's going to get easier. Hoping it will then help it to be easier to give up other bad for me stuff like chocolate and sweets. I'm not as optimistic , but really who knows???????