Day 6 "How Long Does Getting Thin Take?"

My favorite philospher, Winnie the Pooh, once mused, "how long does getting thin take?" Like that "bear of very little brain", all 20PO (anyone, actually, with butter to shed) would like it to happen quickly. The fact is, the weight didn't pile on overnight and it certainly won't melt off overnight. For Pooh, who is still wondering around the Hundred Acre Woods with a honey jar stuck on his nose, I doubt it will ever come off.
But for us...90 days! How are you holding up? By Day 6, the novelty of starting a new plan "that is really gonna work this time" is wearing a bit thin. You're anxious to see results. Keep on counting and moving and let the math do the rest. You can expect to see, if you have been doing exactly what you signed up for nearly a week ago, a 1.6 pound drop on Weigh In Day. It's a given. If you don't attain that, you need to look at how you blew off, hedged, guessed, hindered or cheated the plan.
If a baker placed red velvet cake batter into a hundred degree oven for ten minutes and removed it, would you expect it to be baked? No, that's crazy. Science takes over at a certain sustained baking temperature that produces a successful outcome. Similiar application to weight loss. If you haven't decreased your daily caloric input and jump started your aerobic engine, don't expect to hop on the scale and see a 1.6 pound loss, or any loss at all. There's no "explaining" this plan away, like there are explanations for other diets: ate a Hershey Kiss with my 7 egg, butter, sirloin bacon omelette and gained 9 pounds; combined a tangelo with roasted turkey and shot up two Gap jean sizes; couldn't get my hands on any Tijuana Fen-Phen so I ate the entire Thanksgiving meal before the inlaws arrived. Keep counting.

You're closing in on your first, of twelve, Weigh In Days to see if the plan has measured up or if you have measured up to the plan. In less than forty eight hours, you'll have, as the corporate world calls it, hard data (your weight loss) and experience (counting and moving) to make you a bona fide expert in weight loss. You could probably teach those unenlightened Atkinites a thing or two. Armed with first hand success, you will be dangerous. Dangerous enough to forge through another week. Hang in, you're almost to your first goal.
Breakfast: Coffee w/ 4 T. Half 'n Half (80), 1 1/2 cups Cocoa Krispies w/1 cup skim milk (300)
Lunch: PB&J (230), Diet Coke
Snack: 4 sips Pepsi (about 40), 1 medium orange (60), handful Reese Pieces (the package listed 200 calories per 50, I had about 25) (100)
Dinner: Smart One Enchilada Suiza (310), baked potato w/ 1/2 T butter(150), 1 Chips Ahoy! White Chunky cookie (80).
Day 6 Total: 1450