Too easy?

I feel like this is too easy. Losing weight is supposed to be hard.

I should be starving. I should be losing .5lbs a week. I should be miserable.

Instead, I eat when I am hungry. I lost 2 lbs since Friday. I have even had ice-cream. I'm pretty happy!

I thought it would be smart for me to document what I'm eating and how I'm feeling, in case I need to look back on this in a few weeks/months when I hit a plateau and life isn't so rosy. So, here's what I'm eating:

Breakfast: 1/2 cup chocolate milk, 1/2 cup whole milk. 4g of protein, 180 calories.
                  Slice of mozzarella cheese, slice of tomato, balsamic vinegar. 8 g of protein, 80 calories.


Lunch: Egg salad made from 2 eggs, with mayo. 12 g protein, 170 calories.

Snack: Watermelon.

Dinner: Ground turkey with tomato sauce & grated cheese. 28 g protein. 250 calories.

Snack: Yasso frozen yogurt popsicle. 6 g protein. 80 calories.

So I ended the day with 62 g of protein, 800 calories. I could have eaten a little something more as a snack after breakfast but I had a busy day. I need to buy more greek yogurt, it is really good AND has 20g of protein! I could have more fruits and veggies, too. I haven't really figured out how to work those in yet. Though I did order a mini-cupcake tin so I can make broccoli tater tots.

I said this is easy, and in some ways it is. The hard thing, though, is that I am ALWAYS thinking about food -- what food I should take with me, what food I need to buy (see yogurt above), what I need to cook for tomorrow (need to hard boil some eggs to have the whites as snack). It's not even like I think about what to eat all the time, it is the shopping/planning/preparing. I used to just wait till I was hungry, then think, "hmm, what do I feel like eating? what is easy?" and then order something or go out.

On Friday I went to Walden Pond with Deborah and brought cooked shrimp, turkey jerky (need more), watermelon and cole slaw.  I went to the beach with Sue, Nancy and Liam on Sunday. I brought 6 hard boiled eggs, a bunch of cooked shrimp, cheese stick, and smartfood popcorn for a snack. Then when I got home I cooked ground turkey and mixed it with tomato sauce and stored for the week. Made a chick pea, tomato sauce mixture from Deborah that is served with a poached egg and feta cheese. Very yummy. And made egg salad.

This is the person who ate Stouffer's frozen spinach soufflé every day for lunch for 3 months because it was easy. I guess there are different types of easy!