New "diet"-one week in

So I'm horrible at sticking to a diet.  For this to truly to be an elimination diet, I have failed miserably.  Alas, I knew that going in so I tried to make a goal for myself that I could attain-to eliminate aspartame and to avoid msg.  We have done well with grocery store trips not to buy anything with msg in it but I've been out to eat twice now and that's really a no-no unless you purposely order stuff that's msg-free.  At least I didn't eat Chinese.  I have done well with the no aspartame though.  As of now, I can't tell any difference really.  It almost makes me wonder if I have a "sugar" trigger.  Ha! 

I've been keeping all this stuff on a spreadsheet.  My meals, snacks, beverages, weather for the day, stress level, symptoms for the day, and a place for anything else I feel I should note.  Based on one week, I would have to say weather seems to be having the most effect.  We've had a snowstorm and today it's raining.  Yesterday, I had 2 vertigo spells that required valium.  Luckily, the valium did the trick. 

The only other thing I should probably add is some kind of column for my level of activity for the day.  Since I've just come off of 2 surgeries since November, I'm way out of shape.  Over the past week, I've done more than I have since last October.  Could be that it caught up with me yesterday.

I've lost more weight and am still struggling with my lack of appetite.  My Gyn says my appetite should be back to normal in another week or so.  I still have a hard time getting 3 full meals in a day.  Now, I'm down to about 113.  That's okay for now as I'm only 5'3" but if I lose much more, I'm going to start looking rough.