Tastes like chicken

So everyone is freaking out about fish oil. Have you noticed this? Fish oil this capsules, prescription fish oil that, fish oil burps (wait what?). Yeah, it's another huge health and beauty commercial success.

And I get it. Its awesome, it makes your hair and nails and skin look delightful, annnnd does a whole bunch of other stuff that's good. That's really all you need to know. (Actually, there are some really great benefits so in all seriousness, if you want to know the real deal, you can definitely get info from a more credible source than me.)

So I have a nice free sample of fish oil from a client of mine. Lemon. Flavored. Fish. Oil. Which sounds disgusting, but how bad can lemon flavored anything really be, right?

Wrong.

Given my history with hiding healthy foods in stuffed animals, one should have already deduced that I don't like fish. At all. Or seafood. Or sushi. Or anything that swims, floats or wiggles in the ocean. Not sure what my prejudice is against the creatures of the sea, but its a pretty iron clad prejudice.

So why on earth would it make any sense that I could tolerate lemon. flavored. fish. oil?

Well, it doesn't make any sense, and I don't tolerate LFFO. Which is why, when I tried to take not even an entire spoonful, but simply an itty bitty drop of it the other day, I puked. In the kitchen sink. And guess what? It tasted like lemon... both times...

So needless to say, I need to find some other way to get the fish oil benefits without the fish oil. Which is pretty much not possible. So I guess I need to stop acting like a five year old and figure out how to take the stuff.

On another note, tomorrow will be my one week of this experiment, so I thought I would provide you with a few stats:

• I only cheated/effed up on Saturday/Sunday due to wedding/Armageddon weather challenges
• I am officially obsessed with drinking water with fresh squeezed lime juice
  
• I am sleeping better and waking up rested instead of feeling like I just emerged from a 7 year coma
• I find that I don't get that awful "oh my god I'm hungry" stomach implosion
  
• I'm down 3 pounds
• I feel pretty damn awesome
  

Yes okay the weight thing is great, but really, it's kind of a no-brainer and I'm not making that big of a deal out of it. I'm not eating garbage so no surprise there, weight comes off.

And the feeling pretty damn awesome thing is, well, pretty damn awesome. I don't feel like I'm on a diet because I'm not. I'm not hungry. I'm not cranky (if you exclude yesterday in its entirety...), I'm not sluggish, and I'm not drooling over everyone else's delicious, fluffy, salty, filling carbs. I had a mini-meltdown with a Friendly's commercial but come on, that was just unfair.

All in all, I'd venture to say that week 1 was satisfactorily completed.

Coming up?

In week two's episodes, Corey trains with trainer Keith for the first time and tries to walk, not crawl the next day, Corey completes the Acid Test, and Corey completes the second half of the 14 day carb detox without going completely mental (fingers crossed).

So don't touch that dial. Fun things to come.