The Military Diet

So I found The Military Diet or Three Day Diet on Pinterest this past week.  I am not very good at following any type of eating plan but thought I could handle three days.  The promise of this diet is up to five pounds weight loss in the three days.  It is meant as a jumping off point, I suppose, to a little less weight and a little more motivation.
It was hard to pick the best three days.  No Wednesdays because that's movie night and kettle korn night.  I chose the three days after, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.  Bad choice because Friday was a work birthday and I couldn't eat cheesecake and Saturday had two birthday cakes to make and I couldn't eat any graham cracker cookies. 
Wednesday night I went to the grocery store with my list.  I bought the app for the diet just to help me stay on track.  The two McDonalds sweet teas that I didn't buy paid for the app.  Ashlyn and Danny were with me at the store and were questioning the food choices on this.  There is ice cream and saltines and hot dogs along with cottage cheese and carrots.  Seems legit!
Thursday morning the scale said loud and proud 149.  Well, fuck, that is higher than I expected.  And unfortunately from what I know of my weight during the FXB days, that is over ten pounds of fat.  During FXB I was much more fit and muscular and weighed ten pounds less.  During the deployment days (which I also refer to as the crazy year) I hit bottom at 118.  There was very little muscle and mostly bone protruding from my neck.  Oddly, when I was in my early twenties, I weighed much less than that but don't notice the protruding bone, she needs a sandwich effect in old photos.  And I know that I am not fat, I know that my weight gain is easily solved with less sugar and more exercise.  But I am lazy and don't want to keep track.  I like sweet tea and candy.  In fact, I may be an elf. 
I continued to take my normal vitamins and supplements during the three days.  I take a multi, an iron, two D's, two different B's, a biotin for healthy nails and hair and an Epicor to keep me breathing! 
Day one seemed like a lot of food especially for breakfast.  I drank tea and ate grapefruit and toast with peanut butter.  I had the grapefruit in the cup because it only called for a half of grapefruit and the other half would have gone bad.  The cup has added sugar so there's that.  But this was a great breakfast and I wasn't hungry at all at work. 
Lunch was at 2:00 with 1/2 cup of cottage cheese and 1/8 cup sunflower kernels and more tea.  I normally don't eat lunch at work but two smaller snacks.  This was much healthier than usual.  I was also drinking water throughout the day, something I don't normally do. 
Dinner was delightful with chicken, green beans, 1/2 banana and apple and 1 cup of vanilla ice cream.  I did not go to bed hungry! 
The next two days were different and less foods but I never felt hungry.  I had a horrible headache on day two.  I don't know if it was the diet, lack of sugar or just time.  I drank a half of gallon of water which is a half gallon more than I usually drink and the headache stayed.  That was the only problem I really encountered.
I peed a lot over the next three days, but the claim that I just lost water weight doesn't seem fair considering that I was not dehydrated and that I had drank zero water prior to the start.  My belly felt flatter and softer.  Danny thought it looked littler as well.  I did not exercise at all.  There were no violent poops associated with this diet either which was nice.  Peeing was the big theme for me. 
The weigh in on day two was 146, day three was 145.6 and the final weigh in was 145.2.  Respectable results, if you ask me.  Now I am on my own eating responsibly and exercising. 
I started the 20 day plank challenge yesterday...