Letting it all hang out

So, I went and saw the nutritionist on Monday, and within minutes I had let my guard down completely and opened up to her about my horrible life and the root of my eating habits. We talked for 2 hours about everything that I could eat, should eat and would eat, and we both came away happy. She set up an eating plan for me that I can stick to fairly easily, and I gained a lot of self-confidence and, I'm struggling for a better word, but "gumption" fits the bill for now.

Here's the basic eating plan.

For breakfast, I eat an english muffin (toasted or microwaved) with peanut butter, along with some fruit (peaches or grapes or nectarines or avocado).

There's a snack between breakfast and "dinner" that consists of either some fruit for natural sugars or some nuts for protein.

For "dinner" (which would actually be lunch), I need to have the largest meal of the day, and that'll include either some chicken, a hamburger, jambalaya, risotto with some meat, eggs and sausage... all with some starchy veggies (corn, carrots, green beans).

For the late night meal I take my nighttime pills with, either soup or a sandwich of some sort.

There's a lot of water drinking in there as well. I'm starting at 16oz bottles a day right now, but I'm sure that'll move up to 3 soon, possibly switching up to 24oz bottles after that.

I got some multi-grain white bread, some multi-grain kaiser rolls, frozen chicken breasts, a crapload of marinades, some frozen hamburgers, turkey sausages, turkey hot dogs, sliced deli turkey, sliced deli swiss, some kicked up ketchup, a whole bunch of english muffins, some peaches, some grapes, some carrots, corn, green beans... I'm doing this. I'm actually doing this.

It feels weird to know that I've been eating right for the last 2½ days, because it doesn't really feel any different. Maybe that'll change when I go for longer with the plan, but right now it feels fine.