Weight Loss Challenge Day 8
Tonight I’m going over to my friend Megan’s for an election party. Everyone has been given a ballot proposal or race to discuss before the primary election on Tuesday. I love this idea, and I spent way too much time doing my research. Sadly, one can research for hours and still have no idea what one is talking about when it comes to candidates for political office. This will be the first test to see if I can stick to my diet in a communal food / drinking setting. Fingers crossed.
Weight
198.0 (a temporary glitch, I assure you)
Breakfast
Generic Grape Nuts with strawberries and raisins
1 cup of coffee w/ 1/2 and 1/2
Mid-morning snack
1 cup of coffee w/ 1/2 and 1/2
1 apple
Lunch
3/4 slice leftover summer squash pie
2/3 head of broccoli w/ butter, lemon juice and almonds
1 orange
Mid-afternoon snack
1 banana
The party was a smash success. Everyone was well-prepared. I learned a lot. Orly Taitz: Boo! Jerry Brown: Hooray!
I also survived the eating & drinking test with flying colors. It wasn’t easy, because the place was filled with delicious food. (Seriously, Megan, those fish tacos were out of this world.) When I start to get this weight thing under control a little bit, I’m totally into the idea of letting my guard down at parties, but I’ve gotta be strict for the time being.
Also, last night the “public shame” part of the diet worked out exactly as it should have … there were three people there who had been reading my updates, which made it harder to cheat. And truthfully, I didn’t even want to cheat … it’s all about getting into a habit of some sort, I guess.
Dinner
3 slices of watermelon
1 fish taco
salad
1/2 ear of corn w/o butter or salt
1 beer
1 glass of wine
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June 4th, 2010 at 10:19 am
I love that party idea!
Yesterday morning: 210.0
Breakfast
1 bowl HEB Special K Knockoff Cereal
12 oz “Lo-Carb” Monster
Lunch
2 Tacos
Sugary Pop
Dinner
2 slices Pizza
2 Rum and Cokes
Exercise
Schmexercise
This morning: 209.0
I’m going to start ending with weight instead of beginning, so I can connect what I did with the weight I ended up at.
June 6th, 2010 at 5:54 am
Clearly I need to get more serious about this.
Yesterday: 209
Breakfast:
Cereal
Monster
Lunch:
Chicken Wrap
Small Mexican Mashed Potatoes
Water
Dinner:
Way too much Indian food. That’s the part where clearly I should have though “I shouldn’t eat all of this,” but I didn’t until afterward.
This morning: 212
So yeah, I’m going in circles. If I’m actually gonna do this, I’m gonna have to start thinking about really doing this.
June 6th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
The first problem is this Low-carb Monster nonsense. I do not know what that is, but I would guess it doesn’t adhere to the “eat natural food” part of the experiment. Granted, it is difficult to cook every meal with fresh ingredients. But a taco from the taco stand is almost certainly going to be a lot more natural than a lo-carb monster, whatever that is.
Unless Lo-Carb Monster is prison slang for a hummer, in which case, carry on.
June 6th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
I’m more aiming at being the control in this experiment. “Natural foods” is an arbitrary line in my book; I’m just trying (poorly) to eat less calories than I burn.
Lo-carb Monster is a caffeine source that doesn’t taste like ass to me, equivalent to one of your multiple daily coffees. Like I mentioned, I’m phasing them out now that research is showing morning caffeine drinks (the study used coffee, but I’m sure other things are no better) just get people back to even, rather than actually helping… but it’s no worse for me than a morning coffee.
Trust me, the beautifully natural pile of Indian food was the problem. I over ate, and I gained weight. I need to not do that part.