Week 5 Day 2

This is day one after the death of my father and while it is minimally affective on my daily life it leaves a big hole in the entirety of my life. Who can I call now to give me misinformation on the Twins and Vikings?

More proof that not eating helps you lose weight, I had about 1,300 calories yesterday including a smoothie of yogurt and soy milk for dinner. This morning's weight is -17 lbs from starting point. Monday was -12.5 so that is a one day drop of 4.5 without any significant exercise.

Eating is pretty boring these days. Funny how looking at calories makes your eyes bug out. A small box of raisins is 130 calories. Dried fruit that vaguely tastes like eating ants (don't ask how I know) and that's 1/15 of about what I can eat to lose weight and it seems like a rip off. You can get the no sugar added peaches for 25 calories and they are much more enjoyable. The sugar free Jell-o tastes like slightly watery regular Jell-o pudding, but it's between 60-120 calories less a serving. I don't mind slightly watery if it gets me to an occasional plate of spaghetti.

It's not so much about sacrifice and reward for me. I don't need the "if I lose this many pounds I'll reward myself with cheesecake" plan. For me it's all about the education. Like when I learned that crappy faux ice cream has more calories and less taste then real ice cream with 'less fat' or the fro-yo options. The vegetarian diet isn't built around less calories, in fact with the absence of meat there seems to be more calories to make up for protein deficiencies. Not eating meat takes more work than I am willing to add to my already full plate.

I got no plan and I got no idea of where or how. I am sticking with the healthe trim for another two months and after that I will continue to educate myself and plan ahead for eating. When I go out to dinner I do a little research and plan my meal out in advance, tricky, as some slow service restaurants are reluctant to share nutritional information. Other than that I am still in search of my motivation to add exercise as more than an occasional activity.

Keep on, keeping on.