Week One Weigh In

Week 1 of my diet is complete. Eating high quality whole foods: proteins, vegetables, fruits, grains. No salt, sugar or artificial sweeteners. 1 lost 7 pounds! I'm so glad I didn't cheat. This is a record for me. I never lost this much in the first week of any diet, including Atkins.
I'm so tempted to continue the first phase of this diet but unlike Atkins, Joy Bauer doesn't seem to offer this option. She wants you to move through the phases, so I will. I should expect my weight loss to slow down to a healthy one to two pounds per weeks now, and that's fine with me as long as the scale is inching downward and not yo-yoing back up. Bonus: I get to eat more this week, hooray!
I am so glad I gave up Diet Coke before I began. I don't miss it one bit. I'm drinking unsweetened tea, water and skim milk exclusively. I'm filling up on non-startchy vegetables, which is fine, but I'm looking forward to more variety as I get to introduce some old favorites slowly back into my meals. I'm pushing the reset button on how I automatically ate. I bought a kitchen scale and am using it, meausuring cups and spoons at every feeding. Biggest surprise: the healthy protein servings (meat, poultry & fish) are larger than I thought! I was eating the right amount of high fiber cereal, no surprise there. Fruit servings were shocking. Half a banana is equivalent to a whole orange or apple. 
Anyhow, onward and downward.
How are you doing?