I often get cranky when I'm hungry. Well, those are my words. My friends and family tend to use words subject to censure. I've never been on a diet, but nonetheless my mood would drop drastically if I didn't eat immediately when I was hungry. Needless to say my loved ones were a bit...nervous... at the idea of me going on a diet. My boyfriend was torn between being delighted and supportive in addition to being worried. Verbally he was being encouraging and positive, but I could see something in his eyes: trepidation.
While I didn't go cold turkey, the first day was just a cloud of hunger and crankiness. All I was trying to do at that stage was eliminate as much sugar and fat as I could from my diet and watch my portion sizes. This is when I realised that sugar is truly addictive. I was experiencing withdrawal symptoms as if I was in rehab. Headaches, dizziness, exhaustion. On top of that I am an emotional eater and I was experiencing a particularly stressful day at work. Handling stress without food is like an alcoholic handling stress without alcohol; you're feeling everything so much more intensively and are incapable of handling the emotions. I was close to tears several times that day and having some sever anger management issues.
I was at 69 kg and had set my goal at 60 kg. As I had such horrible food habits, simply trying to cut down fat and sugar in my diet had drastic effects. I lost 0.5 kg already my first day (needless to say I spent half the day emptying my bladder - adding to my stress at work) and the results motivate, but I was suffering. How could I possibly lose 9 kg when I was experiencing such hardship after just one day?
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