Dear Special K Challenge

I QUIT.

Generally, I'd be disappointed in myself but can we be honest here? Your challenge BLOWS.

1. Who the hell wants to eat cereal twice a day? Especially cereal that is kind of bland and boring? I did it for a week and I wanted to blow my brains out.
2. Oh sure you offer alternatives like protein bars and shakes but as someone who had a personal trainer and nutritionist, they have too many carbs and not enough protein. Plus at 4-5 a box of 6 I have to buy THREE boxes to get 14 days of one meal. Highway robbery? Possibly.
3. Eating cereal for two meals and fruits and veggies for two snacks means I am FUCKING STARVING by dinner time. Then I make stupid choices like Tin Lizzys for what I'm sure was 15,000 calories of cheese dip and skillets of chicken, rice, veggies, salsa and more cheese dip.
4. I know you figure no one drinks while taking your challenge but as a challenger I figure it's my duty to my bloggy readers to throw everything I've got at your challenge. I was beyond fucked up after 2 drinks. Granted I hadn't hit the third meal yet but clearly I was not full enough as I generally can drink grown-ass men under the table.
5. Dinner. You're suggestion to eat dinner as one normally would cannot be what you actually meant. If it is, then you are fucking stupid. Isn't eating as I normally do what got me into a situation in which I decided your challenge would help? Your definition of dinner is too broad and allows for too much flexibility. It's quite easy to make up all those calories you saved me at dinner. Especially when (and I know I said this already) you are FUCKING STARVING.

For these reasons, I quit your stupid challenge. A woman with my large, lily white ass cannot survive on your two bowls of cereal a day. There are too many other good foods out there.

XOXO,

Berryfine

PS. Sadly this means my pals will miss out on my own sexy special K photo. I'm not laying the blame completely on you as I couldn't maintain discipline for 2 weeks but I will say you didn't factor in the average person when developing this challenge. Back to the drawing board!

Special K Challenge Day 1 Recap

Breakfast: Special K with skim milk and a banana

Lunch: Special K with skim milk and a banana

(side note, weird right?)

Dinner: Crackers with hummus and skim milk

Snacks: 3 pieces of crystal light candy and a bottle of water

Gym Time: Weights, lunges, squats and crunches

So I was INTENDING for dinner with be chicken breast with salad but I stopped at the store at 5 pm STARVING and considered another night of sushi (Monday night's pre special K challenge dinner) and then I saw the hummus. And it called out to me. Shopping while fucking STARVING from only eating two bowls of cereal is detrimental to your wallet. TRUST ME.

I went searching for more Special K hotties but despite a dozen plus women being on the back of the boxes, there aren't too many on the interwebs. FAIL.

The Special K Challenge

Has anyone else ever noticed how happy the bitches on the back of Special K boxes are? Probably because they just lost a whole jeans size in two weeks. I don't know if I believe it but I'm pretty broke and a giant box of cereal and a gallon of milk is infinitely cheaper than all that other shit I typically put in my cart. So here goes nothing.

The premise for those of you who mute your tv during the annoyingly red commercials:

Meal 1: Special K with fruit and 2/3 cup of skim milk

Meal 2: Special K with fruit and 2/3 cup of skim milk OR Special K protein bar or shake

Meal 3: Whatever you would normally eat (and I fail at this portion!)

Snacks: 2 a day- fruit, veggies or Special K treats (snack bars, protein water, cereal bars, crackers or fruit chips)

Bam. Seems easy enough right? If I seem extra bitchy during this ordeal just remember how damn happy I'll be at the end- just like the girl on the Special K box right?

Starting Weight: 164

Starting Jeans Size: 10