DAY ... (does math) FORTY-ONE - JULY 13TH
So here we are: a month following the Crazy Cleanse/Diet I put myself through. All the things I went through were hopefully interesting to read and helped you understand where I was coming from. In fact, I can't explain to someone an experience I had with the diet without asking them if they read the blog for fear that I will be regurgitating stories I've already shared. I pretty much shared everything I was willing to share in those posts. But back to the point I was trying to make, everything that I went through and shared means nothing on a person level if I did not meet my goal. I may be able to handle more than I thought I could and it may mean something on a survival level if I can go through long periods of time without food, but my objective in starting the diet/cleanse was to lose weight. If this did not happen in the long run, then - at least to me - it was a waste of time.
So, let's recap. The last post saw me at a weak point. I had gone from 186 pounds, down to 174 (maybe even 173?) back up to 182, and then ending possibly at 179. I don't think I realized until now what sort of cliffhanger I left on, giving no full answer on the success of the cleanse/diet. I was going to watch what I ate, work out on the bike, push-ups, sit-ups, and do some P90X. The whole nine yards.
What actually happened? As my time with the diet came to an end, I discussed my ordeal with some friends who have gone through dramatic weight losses in the past and we talked about what might be the best direction for me. In doing this, one of my friends pointed out that if my main objective was to lose the weight, then the P90X might not be where I want to go. P90X will help you lose weight, but the main intention is to help work out your muscles and toned and all that good stuff. When my brother used P90X, he would go on the scale consistently and be disappointed at the fact that he wasn't losing weight. He was probably dropping fat and adding muscle simultaneously, but had no idea. And since muscle is heavier than fat, he very well could haven been getting discouraged when he was really doing himself a big favor. The point of all this is that, while beefing up and getting some muscle would be an advantage at some point, what I'm really trying to concentrate on at the moment is getting to a good weight. So dropping the P90X from my immediate future plans happened fairly early on after the diet came to a close.
After the diet did end, I did spend a few days on the stationary bike in my house. While I did clock in a few sessions, I then became interrupted with social plans and work. It's hard for me to rationalize how I can put my life on hold for a diet but I can't work out when I want to. This is the best explanation I can come up with: When you decide to start the cleanse/diet, you have no choice to change everything you do. Either way, as long as you're not going great distances or trying to do things that are physically demanding, nothing changes. You go on the computer, sleep, work out, and even be lazy a lot of the day since there you don't have a lot of energy to begin with. When you work out, you have to put aside time in your day to bike between a 30 to 150 minutes, and you can't walk around sweating and smelling so you have to shower immediately after, and this has to be scheduled between work, dinner, time with family and friends, plans, etc. So to dedicate a huge chunk of time for myself every day is just not particularly easy for me. And if any of that sounds silly, then you can see why I went for the drink rather than the active workout schedule.
While quietly and internally planning my next step, I took time to enjoy eating again. Fast food places, barbecues, desserts, alcohol, etc. Just being able to have those normal foods again, even though I realized that I didn't need them the way that I did before the diet. And, to be honest, NOTHING tasted so good or so much (yes, tasted "so much") as those first few days of Orange Juice after I stopped having the Death Drink. Some time last week I decided to step into phase two. Last Sunday I got on the scale to see where I was after I hadn't really been paying attention for a few weeks. 180 pounds. I was only six pounds under my starting point before the diet, but I didn't think this was too bad considering that I hadn't been making a big effort in watching my intake. However, I decided that I would get back into working out and watching what I ate starting the next day.
Monday morning I stepped on the scale and was told that I was now 178 pounds. To the best of my knowledge, aside from doing some slight exercises with my calves, stomach, and butt muscles, I really hadn't done anything of significance the previous day, so I didn't really have an explanation for the two-pound weight drop. After work, I helped with stuff around the house and planned to get on the bike. Before I could get a chance to hit the bike, a friend texted me to see if I wanted to play basketball. I immediately jumped on the opportunity and ended up playing for about two hours after not having played more than a half hour of basketball in roughly two years. I also rounded this out with 50 push-ups when I got home.
Tuesday morning before work I got up and went on the scale. 176 pounds. Some simple exercises, two hours of basketball, 50 push-ups and some careful food decisions and I was down four pounds in 48 hours. I continued doing the 50-push-ups per day routine (except for yesterday, where I inexplicably slept for eternity) and tried to be somewhat careful with my eating habits.
Today, I am 175 pounds and I am going to try to get down to 170 pounds a week from today. With eating, push-ups, and the bike I will try to make it happen and see where I go. It's probably an unrealistic goal, but if I eat under 2400 calories most days and get enough time on the bike, it could hopefully happen. I lost five pounds since Sunday morning, so it might not be too crazy to do it again by next week.
As for the diet's effects, I have to say that if a person wanted to start getting in shape or feels too dependent on food, I would definitely suggest it. I would suggest it not necessarily for the weight loss but to show how someone can operate with minimal food and how people tend to revolve a lot of our days or lives around what, when, where, and how we eat. Food is awesome, but we as people do take a lot of time to factor in food in such a way that I'm not sure could be explained without taking it out of the equation. So what's the best way to lose weight? It's what most people recommend: diet and exercise and water. Aside from a juice in the morning and milk in my cereal, I am trying to drink only water as a beverage. If I decided to go to a party, then I'll have a drink drink or maybe I'll treat myself to a soda, but then it is just that: a treat. It's making those substitutions into my life and making them permanent. Green tea weened me off of soda, but with all the high fructose corn syrup, I don't think I need to have Arizona green tea as part of my intake. So water, work on the diet, and exercise.
If there are changes or some sort of progress then I may update, but I think this topic has mostly run its course. I hope you enjoyed.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
This Crazy Cleanse Diet - Day Sixteen
DAY SIXTEEN - JUNE 18TH
After having blogged about this topic for a few days, I went to hang out with my friends for a reunion of sorts. One of these friends, who also had blogged for a short while (and hopefully is returning to the blogging world soon), told me that she was proud of me and felt this was a brave decision for me to make, considering how personal of a subject this was. While I appreciated her praise, it did not occur to me that this was very personal. Granted, I'm admitting that I'm not terribly comfortable with my weight and I'm making drastic changes to fix this. But I am not talking about intimate emotional and mental details of how this REALLY affects me. You get to read about how hard it is to drink the Death Drink and wanting to eat and whatever, but there is a lot that comes with decision and some back story that I decided to avoid (because THAT would be personal, and I would be writing way more than I already do). On the other hand, while I do consider myself a private person, there are parts of me that I would like to vocalize for a larger audience so that perhaps they can learn or understand things that others will not admit. So in genuinely had not occurred to me that blogging about my experiences with this diet was personal until my friend had made this statement.
Now it's personal.
I woke up for work this morning and after five to ten minutes, I was crushed. I did what I had been doing every day for past five days or so and got on the scale to see what kind of effect the weekend had on me. 182 pounds...
182 pounds.
182.
How could this happen? Yesterday I was 177. I'll admit that maybe it was teetering over to 178, but either way, it was a gigantic increase and disappointment. Five pounds in 24 hours? How? How could this happen? I know that, from reading the last few posts, people can list: "Lasagna, Pound Cake, Ice Cream, Five Red Velvet Pancakes, Chicken Parmesan Hero, Arizona Iced Tea, and Beer. What did you expect?" I expected that these things wouldn't make me gain eight to nine pounds in three days!
I felt like a cheater. I cheated every person who I told about my 12-pound weight lost in ten days. To every person who read my blog, to the people I work with, to my family and friends, to everyone. All this work and it culminates in a total loss of four pounds. Lost thirteen, gained nine back. I got to see what I could be and then lost so much of it to the point where I felt like I was back at square one. It was a cruel game of Flowers for Algernon with weight instead of IQ. And, of course, I haven't lied about anything that has happened. Everything that I've stated on here, to the best of my knowledge, is completely true. I feel like I've cheated everyone, but I've never lied.
In discovering my weight gain, I quietly ate my Fruit Salad, a bit too tired to fully absorb what just happened but upset enough to not speak. When my mom asked me my weight, I told her and continued to stay quite. She tried to make me feel better, saying that there was not way I could possibly gain five pounds in one day and that the scale must be wrong. But I had used that scale every single day in the past five or six days and roughly every other day since this diet started. There was no way that the scale could be right for the first fifteen days and then magically be working incorrectly for today. There was no spin or explanation to make this work in my favor. I had gained almost all of the weight back.
I went to work today with a shirt that I had worn during my diet and now it felt a bit too tight. I had checked the mirror a few times within the day and it looked like I had gained my weight back. I could FEEL that it was back. And my heart even seemed to feel the pressure at times. I'm sure my heart probably went through a bit of an ordeal, having to go from consuming a drink for over ten days to all that food; losing and gaining all that weight back. I screwed this up and I screwed up my body. I might not have bragged excessively about my weight loss to others, but I felt like I lied to everyone, even though these people could see the changes on me. I am a phony.
So what happened, exactly? Yeah, I ate a lot, but I've eaten this amount before in a three-day period without such a drastic weight change. Yes, this might've occurred considering the circumstances, but then how exactly is this possible? Well, a lot of the initial weight lost was water weight, fine. But the rest? The real question is: If I was able to gain all this weight back in a matter of three days, how good was this diet? But it's NOT a diet, it's a cleanse. If I came off the cleanse at a time where there weren't two big events in three days, this would not have happened. Not to say that this is anyone's fault but mine, but I just did not see such a dramatic change taking place.
So what do I do now? What I do is work my ass off. I think that I can sit around, be lazy, only consume one thing, blog and tell people about it, and decide that I "worked hard" for this? People seem to be skeptical that I was able to do this, but honestly, anyone with a bit of consistency in their schedules could do this. I decided that I would go home and get on the bike and just ride it all away. I'll pedal 3,500 calories everyday for the next five days and see what happens. Anything to undo what I just did to myself. In the past month I was able to go two consecutive days on my bike for two-and-a-half hours each session. So, if I have to do three, three-and-a-half hours on the bike, I'll do it. I was able to just sit around and be lazy because I didn't have the energy. I certainly have the time to lose the weight, and lose it permanently.
Aside from just feeling angry, and eventually quite sad about it, what didn't help was that I had two people asking me about how the diet was going. And these people had every right to ask. I make a blog, I send the link to people, I post it on my Facebook, etc. But I can't admit to people, especially to my supervisor who watched me do this and try to deal with work everyday despite its effects, that I lost about 12 pounds and then gained two-thirds of it back. Obviously, she may read this and understand, but then she'll realize why I tried to talk as little about it as possible.
I got home and napped for about six hours (probably a combination of not having enough sleep from the night before and being overwhelmed with my failure) before waking up and trying to decide when I would get on the bike and what I would have to do to fix it. I eventually checked my stats from previous bike sessions and realized that the most I had burned in my excessively long bike outings was around 1,700-1,800 calories in 150 minutes. So, unless I was planning on doing five-hour biking sessions for five days straight, I don't think I would be able to get rid of a pound a day. However, I did read recently that, even with minimum activity, a male of my age and size burns at least 2,300 to 2,400 calories a day. So how do I combat this and get my body back?
Breakfast shall be a bowl of fruit salad every morning. (I friend who is way more health-conscious than I am informed me that it is probably healthier to have the cup of Arizona Green Tea with the bowl of Raisin Nut Bran cereal in 2% Milk, but I'm going to give this a shot and see where this goes. I've done the aforementioned plan before and it didn't work to my advantage as much as I'd hoped.) Lunch, if I choose to have it, will be either Orange Juice or some sort of fruit juice. Dinner will be vegetables - most likely salad - with meat. And this portion of meat will be half of what I used to have. And then I will get on the bike and pedal everything away. This way, I will still get in my fruit (breakfast, lunch), my vegetables (dinner), and meat (dinner) without eating excessively. I don't need the starches or the grains. And I will also have to drink a bunch of water.
So was my diet a waste of time? While its effects were a bit deceptive, this was not a waste of my time. First off, I got to see what I could be and how I could look and feel. Never having felt that way in the past five years, getting to experience that and then losing it shortly after is a BIG motivator. I also know that I can survive on very little, so there's no need to eat as much as I used to. Not only is eating in excess unnecessary and obviously adds weight, but it also can make you tired and prevent you from engaging in other activities that could help to lose the weight. This comes from trying to tone my intake back tonight, eating a bit more than I thought would be detrimental, and having to postpone my bike-riding session an hour or so later. With the Death Drink, I went to work, came home, drove long distances, visited friends, went to the beach, played sports, stayed up long days, and functioned like a mostly normal person. I also was able to deal with the good smelling foods and watching other people eat while I was not able to. I think that these experiences were crucial in showing me what I can and cannot handle and what I am capable of doing to drop this weight in a way that is permanent.
I managed to get on the bike tonight for over an hour-and-a-half and knock off 1,200 calories. In doing some math, this means that I was able to burn 2,300 calories from just being an active human, plus 1,200 calories from the bike, adding up to 3,500 calories burned. One must subtract the foods I had today (Fruit Salad, Orange Juice, Salad with Thousand Island Dressing, two Hot Dogs with Cheese and four pieces of Chicken with Barbecue Sauce and Cheese.) before coming to a total, falling short of losing a full pound, but I am getting smarter with my eating and decision-making skills now. I know that, if I redid today's meals, I would've had just one Hot Dog and two pieces of Chicken. I didn't capitalize on push-ups or sit-ups because last time I tried to go crazy and do 50 push-ups after having not done them in awhile, I failed to stretch properly beforehand and, after doing this for two days straight, could not use my arms without them hurting for about a week. After the cleanse/diet and jumping back into working out so drastically, I figured it would be smart to just stick with the bike, something I knew I could go into with no problem.
Needless to say, I will now have a bit of reporting to do to see if I can catch up. The goal is to see if I can drop five pounds by the weekend. If I watch my foods, get on the bike everyday for at least as long as I did today, then I should be able to take it all off. And while I should've been capable of doing this for as long as I've been home, it seems more possible for me to get this done now than ever. Despite how heart-breaking this was for me, I will not let this ten-to-thirteen day cleanse be in vain. I WILL get back on the horse - a different horse - and push on until I'm at the weight I want to be.
And, for the record, I got on the scale after having done the bike and found myself weighing in at 179 pounds. While on the diet, I had noticed that one night I was 180 pounds and the next morning I was 175 pounds. I don't expect that I will wake up and be 174, but I know that there is a possibility I can weigh even less tomorrow morning.
Today was a big hiccup, if you can even call it that, in my goal for weight loss. But now it will drive me to lose what I need to. The right way.
STATS:
Weight: 179
After having blogged about this topic for a few days, I went to hang out with my friends for a reunion of sorts. One of these friends, who also had blogged for a short while (and hopefully is returning to the blogging world soon), told me that she was proud of me and felt this was a brave decision for me to make, considering how personal of a subject this was. While I appreciated her praise, it did not occur to me that this was very personal. Granted, I'm admitting that I'm not terribly comfortable with my weight and I'm making drastic changes to fix this. But I am not talking about intimate emotional and mental details of how this REALLY affects me. You get to read about how hard it is to drink the Death Drink and wanting to eat and whatever, but there is a lot that comes with decision and some back story that I decided to avoid (because THAT would be personal, and I would be writing way more than I already do). On the other hand, while I do consider myself a private person, there are parts of me that I would like to vocalize for a larger audience so that perhaps they can learn or understand things that others will not admit. So in genuinely had not occurred to me that blogging about my experiences with this diet was personal until my friend had made this statement.
Now it's personal.
I woke up for work this morning and after five to ten minutes, I was crushed. I did what I had been doing every day for past five days or so and got on the scale to see what kind of effect the weekend had on me. 182 pounds...
182 pounds.
182.
How could this happen? Yesterday I was 177. I'll admit that maybe it was teetering over to 178, but either way, it was a gigantic increase and disappointment. Five pounds in 24 hours? How? How could this happen? I know that, from reading the last few posts, people can list: "Lasagna, Pound Cake, Ice Cream, Five Red Velvet Pancakes, Chicken Parmesan Hero, Arizona Iced Tea, and Beer. What did you expect?" I expected that these things wouldn't make me gain eight to nine pounds in three days!
I felt like a cheater. I cheated every person who I told about my 12-pound weight lost in ten days. To every person who read my blog, to the people I work with, to my family and friends, to everyone. All this work and it culminates in a total loss of four pounds. Lost thirteen, gained nine back. I got to see what I could be and then lost so much of it to the point where I felt like I was back at square one. It was a cruel game of Flowers for Algernon with weight instead of IQ. And, of course, I haven't lied about anything that has happened. Everything that I've stated on here, to the best of my knowledge, is completely true. I feel like I've cheated everyone, but I've never lied.
In discovering my weight gain, I quietly ate my Fruit Salad, a bit too tired to fully absorb what just happened but upset enough to not speak. When my mom asked me my weight, I told her and continued to stay quite. She tried to make me feel better, saying that there was not way I could possibly gain five pounds in one day and that the scale must be wrong. But I had used that scale every single day in the past five or six days and roughly every other day since this diet started. There was no way that the scale could be right for the first fifteen days and then magically be working incorrectly for today. There was no spin or explanation to make this work in my favor. I had gained almost all of the weight back.
I went to work today with a shirt that I had worn during my diet and now it felt a bit too tight. I had checked the mirror a few times within the day and it looked like I had gained my weight back. I could FEEL that it was back. And my heart even seemed to feel the pressure at times. I'm sure my heart probably went through a bit of an ordeal, having to go from consuming a drink for over ten days to all that food; losing and gaining all that weight back. I screwed this up and I screwed up my body. I might not have bragged excessively about my weight loss to others, but I felt like I lied to everyone, even though these people could see the changes on me. I am a phony.
So what happened, exactly? Yeah, I ate a lot, but I've eaten this amount before in a three-day period without such a drastic weight change. Yes, this might've occurred considering the circumstances, but then how exactly is this possible? Well, a lot of the initial weight lost was water weight, fine. But the rest? The real question is: If I was able to gain all this weight back in a matter of three days, how good was this diet? But it's NOT a diet, it's a cleanse. If I came off the cleanse at a time where there weren't two big events in three days, this would not have happened. Not to say that this is anyone's fault but mine, but I just did not see such a dramatic change taking place.
So what do I do now? What I do is work my ass off. I think that I can sit around, be lazy, only consume one thing, blog and tell people about it, and decide that I "worked hard" for this? People seem to be skeptical that I was able to do this, but honestly, anyone with a bit of consistency in their schedules could do this. I decided that I would go home and get on the bike and just ride it all away. I'll pedal 3,500 calories everyday for the next five days and see what happens. Anything to undo what I just did to myself. In the past month I was able to go two consecutive days on my bike for two-and-a-half hours each session. So, if I have to do three, three-and-a-half hours on the bike, I'll do it. I was able to just sit around and be lazy because I didn't have the energy. I certainly have the time to lose the weight, and lose it permanently.
Aside from just feeling angry, and eventually quite sad about it, what didn't help was that I had two people asking me about how the diet was going. And these people had every right to ask. I make a blog, I send the link to people, I post it on my Facebook, etc. But I can't admit to people, especially to my supervisor who watched me do this and try to deal with work everyday despite its effects, that I lost about 12 pounds and then gained two-thirds of it back. Obviously, she may read this and understand, but then she'll realize why I tried to talk as little about it as possible.
I got home and napped for about six hours (probably a combination of not having enough sleep from the night before and being overwhelmed with my failure) before waking up and trying to decide when I would get on the bike and what I would have to do to fix it. I eventually checked my stats from previous bike sessions and realized that the most I had burned in my excessively long bike outings was around 1,700-1,800 calories in 150 minutes. So, unless I was planning on doing five-hour biking sessions for five days straight, I don't think I would be able to get rid of a pound a day. However, I did read recently that, even with minimum activity, a male of my age and size burns at least 2,300 to 2,400 calories a day. So how do I combat this and get my body back?
Breakfast shall be a bowl of fruit salad every morning. (I friend who is way more health-conscious than I am informed me that it is probably healthier to have the cup of Arizona Green Tea with the bowl of Raisin Nut Bran cereal in 2% Milk, but I'm going to give this a shot and see where this goes. I've done the aforementioned plan before and it didn't work to my advantage as much as I'd hoped.) Lunch, if I choose to have it, will be either Orange Juice or some sort of fruit juice. Dinner will be vegetables - most likely salad - with meat. And this portion of meat will be half of what I used to have. And then I will get on the bike and pedal everything away. This way, I will still get in my fruit (breakfast, lunch), my vegetables (dinner), and meat (dinner) without eating excessively. I don't need the starches or the grains. And I will also have to drink a bunch of water.
So was my diet a waste of time? While its effects were a bit deceptive, this was not a waste of my time. First off, I got to see what I could be and how I could look and feel. Never having felt that way in the past five years, getting to experience that and then losing it shortly after is a BIG motivator. I also know that I can survive on very little, so there's no need to eat as much as I used to. Not only is eating in excess unnecessary and obviously adds weight, but it also can make you tired and prevent you from engaging in other activities that could help to lose the weight. This comes from trying to tone my intake back tonight, eating a bit more than I thought would be detrimental, and having to postpone my bike-riding session an hour or so later. With the Death Drink, I went to work, came home, drove long distances, visited friends, went to the beach, played sports, stayed up long days, and functioned like a mostly normal person. I also was able to deal with the good smelling foods and watching other people eat while I was not able to. I think that these experiences were crucial in showing me what I can and cannot handle and what I am capable of doing to drop this weight in a way that is permanent.
I managed to get on the bike tonight for over an hour-and-a-half and knock off 1,200 calories. In doing some math, this means that I was able to burn 2,300 calories from just being an active human, plus 1,200 calories from the bike, adding up to 3,500 calories burned. One must subtract the foods I had today (Fruit Salad, Orange Juice, Salad with Thousand Island Dressing, two Hot Dogs with Cheese and four pieces of Chicken with Barbecue Sauce and Cheese.) before coming to a total, falling short of losing a full pound, but I am getting smarter with my eating and decision-making skills now. I know that, if I redid today's meals, I would've had just one Hot Dog and two pieces of Chicken. I didn't capitalize on push-ups or sit-ups because last time I tried to go crazy and do 50 push-ups after having not done them in awhile, I failed to stretch properly beforehand and, after doing this for two days straight, could not use my arms without them hurting for about a week. After the cleanse/diet and jumping back into working out so drastically, I figured it would be smart to just stick with the bike, something I knew I could go into with no problem.
Needless to say, I will now have a bit of reporting to do to see if I can catch up. The goal is to see if I can drop five pounds by the weekend. If I watch my foods, get on the bike everyday for at least as long as I did today, then I should be able to take it all off. And while I should've been capable of doing this for as long as I've been home, it seems more possible for me to get this done now than ever. Despite how heart-breaking this was for me, I will not let this ten-to-thirteen day cleanse be in vain. I WILL get back on the horse - a different horse - and push on until I'm at the weight I want to be.
And, for the record, I got on the scale after having done the bike and found myself weighing in at 179 pounds. While on the diet, I had noticed that one night I was 180 pounds and the next morning I was 175 pounds. I don't expect that I will wake up and be 174, but I know that there is a possibility I can weigh even less tomorrow morning.
Today was a big hiccup, if you can even call it that, in my goal for weight loss. But now it will drive me to lose what I need to. The right way.
STATS:
Weight: 179
This Crazy Cleanse Diet - Day Fifteen
DAY FIFTEEN - JUNE 17TH
Well kiddies, today is Father's Day. While some of you may express caution, today my brother and myself took my father out to breakfast at the notorious IHOP. I had weighed myself today and clocked in at around 177. While I recognized the increase in weight, I sort of looked at this as just being a brief break before going into exercise mode starting tomorrow.
At IHOP, while I expected I would get the Stuffed French Toast, I instead fell in love with the new Red Velvet Cupcakes. WHAT! Hell yes! See, I sort of have a history with Red Velvet food items. I cannot remember when/where, but at one point I enjoyed something that was in Red Velvet form (probably cake) immensely. Red is one of my favorite colors (and flavors), so this seemed quite fitting. After this discovery, I decided to have a red velvet cake for my birthday. After ordering it and picking it up a few days later on my birthday, my family and I together ate this red velvet cake. Now, before this, none of my family members had experienced red velvet the way I had, or even at all. I may have been hyping up this new delicious commodity before we started eating the dessert. After a few minutes, I think I was the first to admit that the cake was, well, cake flavored. What could I say? It tasted like cake. It didn't seem to have any flavor. After I admitted this, my parents and brother sort of admitted the same thing. We finished this cake and couldn't even really enjoy it for what it SHOULD have been. Since then, I have felt like I was crazy for talking up this red velvet craze that apparently had no flavor to it. There was even another event quite some time after this that I found a red velvet cupcake at 7-11, bought it, brought it home, and tried to let my mom have some. Again, no flavor. The only time I really found it to have flavor was in a Ben and Jerry's ice cream, but I wasn't about to prove my sanity by buying a container of this stuff. I even went as far as to look up what this flavor tasted like and how it was made. Apparently it's a spin-off of chocolate?
So here we are, in IHOP, with the new Red Velvet Pancakes staring me in the face. No question this is what I would be getting. In the picture, it showed just two pancakes and came with a possible side order of a mixture of eggs, hash browns, bacon, and/or sausage. Trying to enjoy myself at IHOP (no one goes there to eat healthy!), and not being a huge fan of their eggs, I decided to just get the pancakes with a side of bacon. When the waitress would return, the stack was actually five pancakes and featured cream cheese topping. Five strips of bacon. This is also including the flavors of syrup that were on the side. (BRING BACK BOYSENBERRY!) However, I still was mindful of my new healthier lifestyle... so I got a water.
After this glorious meal, we got home, went to church, came back home, and had dinner a few hours later, which was the leftover lasagna from Friday night. I had Arizona Iced Tea once again, deciding that this drink would not follow me into the following week. After this, we enjoyed the left over Ice Cream, Pound Cake, Cool HwHip (Family Guy reference, not a typo), and Strawberries. The night was topped off with Orange Strawberry Banana Juice with Vodka.
While this was a bit of a splurge, having two big events within a three-day period, I will be finding a good workout so that I get in better shape and knock my weight back down. I've decided to use my stationary bike, push-ups, and sit-ups for the coming week, and then start the P90X the following week. Since this whole experiment seems to be just about finished, aside from a few highlights and whatnot, I think this topic has run its course. There seems to be little left to write about at this point, aside from what I've eaten and subtle ways that this has affected me. All of the things I've eaten this weekend made me feel like this was what normal was, but I know that I cannot continue eating this way. It was a bonus. My taste buds have even gotten over the "new" food. So, I think I'm done with this. Thanks for reading about this crazy fifteen day quest of mine.
STATS:
Weight: 177
Well kiddies, today is Father's Day. While some of you may express caution, today my brother and myself took my father out to breakfast at the notorious IHOP. I had weighed myself today and clocked in at around 177. While I recognized the increase in weight, I sort of looked at this as just being a brief break before going into exercise mode starting tomorrow.
At IHOP, while I expected I would get the Stuffed French Toast, I instead fell in love with the new Red Velvet Cupcakes. WHAT! Hell yes! See, I sort of have a history with Red Velvet food items. I cannot remember when/where, but at one point I enjoyed something that was in Red Velvet form (probably cake) immensely. Red is one of my favorite colors (and flavors), so this seemed quite fitting. After this discovery, I decided to have a red velvet cake for my birthday. After ordering it and picking it up a few days later on my birthday, my family and I together ate this red velvet cake. Now, before this, none of my family members had experienced red velvet the way I had, or even at all. I may have been hyping up this new delicious commodity before we started eating the dessert. After a few minutes, I think I was the first to admit that the cake was, well, cake flavored. What could I say? It tasted like cake. It didn't seem to have any flavor. After I admitted this, my parents and brother sort of admitted the same thing. We finished this cake and couldn't even really enjoy it for what it SHOULD have been. Since then, I have felt like I was crazy for talking up this red velvet craze that apparently had no flavor to it. There was even another event quite some time after this that I found a red velvet cupcake at 7-11, bought it, brought it home, and tried to let my mom have some. Again, no flavor. The only time I really found it to have flavor was in a Ben and Jerry's ice cream, but I wasn't about to prove my sanity by buying a container of this stuff. I even went as far as to look up what this flavor tasted like and how it was made. Apparently it's a spin-off of chocolate?
So here we are, in IHOP, with the new Red Velvet Pancakes staring me in the face. No question this is what I would be getting. In the picture, it showed just two pancakes and came with a possible side order of a mixture of eggs, hash browns, bacon, and/or sausage. Trying to enjoy myself at IHOP (no one goes there to eat healthy!), and not being a huge fan of their eggs, I decided to just get the pancakes with a side of bacon. When the waitress would return, the stack was actually five pancakes and featured cream cheese topping. Five strips of bacon. This is also including the flavors of syrup that were on the side. (BRING BACK BOYSENBERRY!) However, I still was mindful of my new healthier lifestyle... so I got a water.
After this glorious meal, we got home, went to church, came back home, and had dinner a few hours later, which was the leftover lasagna from Friday night. I had Arizona Iced Tea once again, deciding that this drink would not follow me into the following week. After this, we enjoyed the left over Ice Cream, Pound Cake, Cool HwHip (Family Guy reference, not a typo), and Strawberries. The night was topped off with Orange Strawberry Banana Juice with Vodka.
While this was a bit of a splurge, having two big events within a three-day period, I will be finding a good workout so that I get in better shape and knock my weight back down. I've decided to use my stationary bike, push-ups, and sit-ups for the coming week, and then start the P90X the following week. Since this whole experiment seems to be just about finished, aside from a few highlights and whatnot, I think this topic has run its course. There seems to be little left to write about at this point, aside from what I've eaten and subtle ways that this has affected me. All of the things I've eaten this weekend made me feel like this was what normal was, but I know that I cannot continue eating this way. It was a bonus. My taste buds have even gotten over the "new" food. So, I think I'm done with this. Thanks for reading about this crazy fifteen day quest of mine.
STATS:
Weight: 177
Monday, June 18, 2012
This Crazy Cleanse Diet - Day Fourteen
DAY FOURTEEN - JULY 16TH
My writing on this topic is starting to deteriorate. Now that the experiment discussed is over, there seems to be less to write about. Any attempt to draw anything out seems to be an effort on my part and an insult on your intelligence. I was excited and had a list of things to write about on any given day, whether it was about Day Two or Day Nine. Now this seems like a chore, so this topic will most likely come to an end shortly. I'll give you some highlights and then be on my way.
Worked my eight-hour shift today. I believe the scale said I was 176 today. Not too enthusiastic about this, but I understand the effects of coming off the diet. I am also confident that I can bring it back down once I get into the next step of this process: working out.
Came home. Wanted to go to Subway but ended up passing out before getting a chance and waking up to someone in my family picking up Chicken Parmesan Heroes (awesome!). I also had this with some delicious Arizona Iced Tea (a personal favorite), which I guess was me splurging as I'm used to avoiding it for the healthier Arizona Green Tea. I think I'm going to consider this weekend my food vacation and try to go for a healthier lifestyle once next week kicks in.
A few hours after, I was able to start up the fire pit in the backyard and kick back with my brother and father with a few beers. I might've had four, maybe FIVE beers! "You mean with your immediate family? WHAT a PARTY ANIMAL!" I know, RIGHT? My mother was nice enough to bring out two Whole Wheat English Muffins with Melted American Cheese for each of us, I guess acting as something to absorb the alcohol and a healthier late-night snack. All things considered, after my diet and weight drop, I was surprised that my tolerance was as good as it was. I figured that it would be one of the first things to go.
No other interesting notes here. I think the next post will be the last concerning the diet with the exception of a couple of updates here and there. I do plan to continue blogging, it will just be on other topics. I will give more on that next time. Thanks for reading as much as you have.
NOTES:
Weight: 176
Desired Food Items: ...food might not be such a big deal anymore.
My writing on this topic is starting to deteriorate. Now that the experiment discussed is over, there seems to be less to write about. Any attempt to draw anything out seems to be an effort on my part and an insult on your intelligence. I was excited and had a list of things to write about on any given day, whether it was about Day Two or Day Nine. Now this seems like a chore, so this topic will most likely come to an end shortly. I'll give you some highlights and then be on my way.
Worked my eight-hour shift today. I believe the scale said I was 176 today. Not too enthusiastic about this, but I understand the effects of coming off the diet. I am also confident that I can bring it back down once I get into the next step of this process: working out.
Came home. Wanted to go to Subway but ended up passing out before getting a chance and waking up to someone in my family picking up Chicken Parmesan Heroes (awesome!). I also had this with some delicious Arizona Iced Tea (a personal favorite), which I guess was me splurging as I'm used to avoiding it for the healthier Arizona Green Tea. I think I'm going to consider this weekend my food vacation and try to go for a healthier lifestyle once next week kicks in.
A few hours after, I was able to start up the fire pit in the backyard and kick back with my brother and father with a few beers. I might've had four, maybe FIVE beers! "You mean with your immediate family? WHAT a PARTY ANIMAL!" I know, RIGHT? My mother was nice enough to bring out two Whole Wheat English Muffins with Melted American Cheese for each of us, I guess acting as something to absorb the alcohol and a healthier late-night snack. All things considered, after my diet and weight drop, I was surprised that my tolerance was as good as it was. I figured that it would be one of the first things to go.
No other interesting notes here. I think the next post will be the last concerning the diet with the exception of a couple of updates here and there. I do plan to continue blogging, it will just be on other topics. I will give more on that next time. Thanks for reading as much as you have.
NOTES:
Weight: 176
Desired Food Items: ...food might not be such a big deal anymore.
This Crazy Cleanse Diet - Day Thirteen
DAY THIRTEEN - JUNE 15TH
Went on the scale. It said I was 174. Cool.
Had a few extra things that I'm not used to. Toast with butter. Pasta. Lasagna (probably shouldn't have had the meat that was in it, but it was only a small amount, so whatevs). Green Tea. Later, for dessert, I had pound cake with Vanilla and Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, Whipped Cream, and Strawberries. I also had a half glass of Frangelico (Hazelnut flavored Liquor).
Green Tea was the most interesting. Apparently I can pick up more flavors and sensations with drinks or liquids than solid food. My dad and I have been drinking Arizona Green Tea for years and I said that I could taste more of it now than I ever could before. My dad, questioning which flavors were the strongest, asked, "Is it the Ginseng or the Honey?" And I said, "It's lemon and lime."
I will start thinking about what workouts I should do and I will start doing them on Monday.
STATS:
Weight: 174.
NOTE: I originally wrote the post as you see above (with the exceptions of a few edits) as a shorthand to remind myself what to talk about. Now that it's a few days later, I realize that elaborating upon it will just be dragging out a subject that isn't worth dragging out to begin with. No point it adding filler to it. I'm getting to the point where my eating habits are almost back to their normal state, so where's the excitement in that? If I'm tired of writing about it, then you're probably tired of reading about it.
Went on the scale. It said I was 174. Cool.
Had a few extra things that I'm not used to. Toast with butter. Pasta. Lasagna (probably shouldn't have had the meat that was in it, but it was only a small amount, so whatevs). Green Tea. Later, for dessert, I had pound cake with Vanilla and Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, Whipped Cream, and Strawberries. I also had a half glass of Frangelico (Hazelnut flavored Liquor).
Green Tea was the most interesting. Apparently I can pick up more flavors and sensations with drinks or liquids than solid food. My dad and I have been drinking Arizona Green Tea for years and I said that I could taste more of it now than I ever could before. My dad, questioning which flavors were the strongest, asked, "Is it the Ginseng or the Honey?" And I said, "It's lemon and lime."
I will start thinking about what workouts I should do and I will start doing them on Monday.
STATS:
Weight: 174.
NOTE: I originally wrote the post as you see above (with the exceptions of a few edits) as a shorthand to remind myself what to talk about. Now that it's a few days later, I realize that elaborating upon it will just be dragging out a subject that isn't worth dragging out to begin with. No point it adding filler to it. I'm getting to the point where my eating habits are almost back to their normal state, so where's the excitement in that? If I'm tired of writing about it, then you're probably tired of reading about it.
Friday, June 15, 2012
This Crazy Cleanse Diet - Day Twelve
DAY TWELVE - JUNE 14TH
Started today off with getting on the scale. Despite my transfer from the Death Drink, I did not gain in weight. In fact, the scale was teetering between 174 and 173. Got to have a nice drink of Strawberry Banana Orange Juice for breakfast before leaving for work with a lunch that actually consisted of food. Finally!
I'm not sure if it was because of the weight loss, the switch to foods that are not deplorable, or a combination, but I was definitely in a better mood today, despite having to spend most of my time as a cashier. To clarify this, at my wholesale club job, my main position is that of a clerk in the back of the store away from customers, but I will occasionally get scheduled as a cashier or even called up to help as one when I'm scheduled to be a clerk if there are too many customers and not enough help. So, since I got moved up to this over position, I average 4-5 days a week working and might average one day a week as a cashier. While I was initially being trained for this position, I had stopped working as a cashier for so long that I went back and forgot certain key terms, even though I had been getting steady work in that position for a good two and a half months.
Today was somewhat noteworthy since it is the first time in awhile that I did not feel some sort of woozy or dizzy feeling. Whether I was drinking a lot, wasn't active, or had a day off and did nothing, I usually had a moment at least once a day where I felt a bit lightheaded. This, however, did not happen today. I also am pretty sure that my allergies have NOT played a part in any of this process. I was pretty sure that this was the case when I first started posting, but there most be something in the combination of the Death Drink (maybe the pure maple syrup) that must have caused me to feel like I was too congested.
The other big deal for today was that - for the first time since June 2nd (with the exception of the Italian ice) - I actually ATE SOMETHING TODAY! Lunch was GLORIOUS with a beautiful can of Campbell's Tomato Soup with four angelic and very pale Saltine Crackers, succulent Cucumber Slices and another helping of fruit-filled Orange Strawberry Banana (dragonfruit, passionfruit, acai, berrylicious, etc.) Juice! I later would realize my error that I wasn't supposed to have grains until the following day, but it's only four crackers. No biggie!
Came home. Surfed along the craziness of the interwebz, napped, and got up for a delicious dinner. It was pretty much exactly the same (it's only four more crackers, no biggie!) except for the fact that those succulent Cucumber Slices were tossed around in a zesty Italian Vinaigrette! When I was reading the initial eating details for the diet and how to properly ease back into regular food, I read that Day Twelve allowed us to have fruits, vegetables, and vegetable juice. However, I am not a fan of V8 vegetable juice. The only way I could see myself having one is by pouring it into a bowl, heating it up, and turning it into tomato soup. (I apologize if I made this joke in one of the earlier posts. I don't feel like backtracking to see if I made the same joke twice.) Well, because of this, I realized that i could actually have tomato soup on this day since it was mostly just vegetables and little else (aside from, of course, all of the dangerous and deadly preservatives and additives). So I was actually very much tasting tomato soup today, even though I had not had it more than five to ten times in my life.
I'm already tired of it.
Despite the suggestion to have more vegetables and fruits that were available in my refrigerator and freezer (NOT respectively. Unrespectfully? Disrespectfully?), I declined as both my lunch and dinner were very filling. I could've even survived without having the cucumbers, even though they were the best part of the meal. Also, while I do think that my taste buds will get used to all the flavors soon, my sense of taste is indeed temporarily heightened and enjoying all of the new meals. That is, until it gets overwhelmed within the next week or two. Tomorrow I will be having toast, pasta, and even a hint of lasagna ...and dessert. GASP! Pound cake, vanilla ice cream, strawberries, and whipped cream. Not too bad of a dessert for a birthday celebration, I don't think. And I'm still playing by the rules here. I am allowed to have grains starting Day Thirteen. Pound cake would be considered grains. Strawberries are fruit. Vanilla ice cream is ... and the whipped cream is, uh...
STATS:
Weight: 174 (Will inevitably change to 210 by June 17th.)
Heavenly Drinks (OJ): 7 (Last posting)
Death Drinks: 42 (Last posting)
Water Glasses: 25 (Last posting)
Foods I'm looking forward to: Chicken BLT, Chicken Parmesan Hero, Toasted Bagel with Butter, Toasted Muffin (Blueberry or Corn) with Butter, Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cherry Berry Chiller and McDouble (McDonald's) and perhaps Burger King Chicken Nuggets (or was that just a craving?).
Started today off with getting on the scale. Despite my transfer from the Death Drink, I did not gain in weight. In fact, the scale was teetering between 174 and 173. Got to have a nice drink of Strawberry Banana Orange Juice for breakfast before leaving for work with a lunch that actually consisted of food. Finally!
I'm not sure if it was because of the weight loss, the switch to foods that are not deplorable, or a combination, but I was definitely in a better mood today, despite having to spend most of my time as a cashier. To clarify this, at my wholesale club job, my main position is that of a clerk in the back of the store away from customers, but I will occasionally get scheduled as a cashier or even called up to help as one when I'm scheduled to be a clerk if there are too many customers and not enough help. So, since I got moved up to this over position, I average 4-5 days a week working and might average one day a week as a cashier. While I was initially being trained for this position, I had stopped working as a cashier for so long that I went back and forgot certain key terms, even though I had been getting steady work in that position for a good two and a half months.
Today was somewhat noteworthy since it is the first time in awhile that I did not feel some sort of woozy or dizzy feeling. Whether I was drinking a lot, wasn't active, or had a day off and did nothing, I usually had a moment at least once a day where I felt a bit lightheaded. This, however, did not happen today. I also am pretty sure that my allergies have NOT played a part in any of this process. I was pretty sure that this was the case when I first started posting, but there most be something in the combination of the Death Drink (maybe the pure maple syrup) that must have caused me to feel like I was too congested.
The other big deal for today was that - for the first time since June 2nd (with the exception of the Italian ice) - I actually ATE SOMETHING TODAY! Lunch was GLORIOUS with a beautiful can of Campbell's Tomato Soup with four angelic and very pale Saltine Crackers, succulent Cucumber Slices and another helping of fruit-filled Orange Strawberry Banana (dragonfruit, passionfruit, acai, berrylicious, etc.) Juice! I later would realize my error that I wasn't supposed to have grains until the following day, but it's only four crackers. No biggie!
Came home. Surfed along the craziness of the interwebz, napped, and got up for a delicious dinner. It was pretty much exactly the same (it's only four more crackers, no biggie!) except for the fact that those succulent Cucumber Slices were tossed around in a zesty Italian Vinaigrette! When I was reading the initial eating details for the diet and how to properly ease back into regular food, I read that Day Twelve allowed us to have fruits, vegetables, and vegetable juice. However, I am not a fan of V8 vegetable juice. The only way I could see myself having one is by pouring it into a bowl, heating it up, and turning it into tomato soup. (I apologize if I made this joke in one of the earlier posts. I don't feel like backtracking to see if I made the same joke twice.) Well, because of this, I realized that i could actually have tomato soup on this day since it was mostly just vegetables and little else (aside from, of course, all of the dangerous and deadly preservatives and additives). So I was actually very much tasting tomato soup today, even though I had not had it more than five to ten times in my life.
I'm already tired of it.
Despite the suggestion to have more vegetables and fruits that were available in my refrigerator and freezer (NOT respectively. Unrespectfully? Disrespectfully?), I declined as both my lunch and dinner were very filling. I could've even survived without having the cucumbers, even though they were the best part of the meal. Also, while I do think that my taste buds will get used to all the flavors soon, my sense of taste is indeed temporarily heightened and enjoying all of the new meals. That is, until it gets overwhelmed within the next week or two. Tomorrow I will be having toast, pasta, and even a hint of lasagna ...and dessert. GASP! Pound cake, vanilla ice cream, strawberries, and whipped cream. Not too bad of a dessert for a birthday celebration, I don't think. And I'm still playing by the rules here. I am allowed to have grains starting Day Thirteen. Pound cake would be considered grains. Strawberries are fruit. Vanilla ice cream is ... and the whipped cream is, uh...
STATS:
Weight: 174 (Will inevitably change to 210 by June 17th.)
Heavenly Drinks (OJ): 7 (Last posting)
Death Drinks: 42 (Last posting)
Water Glasses: 25 (Last posting)
Foods I'm looking forward to: Chicken BLT, Chicken Parmesan Hero, Toasted Bagel with Butter, Toasted Muffin (Blueberry or Corn) with Butter, Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cherry Berry Chiller and McDouble (McDonald's) and perhaps Burger King Chicken Nuggets (or was that just a craving?).
Thursday, June 14, 2012
This Crazy Cleanse Diet - Day Eleven
DAY ELEVEN - JUNE 13TH
You know you just had a day off from school or work when you go to type the date and you don't remember what it is. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway) I had a day off from work. Which means I slept in super late. I got myself up eventually (2:30ish?) and went to the scale to weigh myself expecting not to see any change from the day before.
174 Pounds! Not exactly the 169 I was hoping to get to, but it was way more exciting after staying at the 175/176 range for a few days. Not only have I dropped 12 pounds in the past ten days, but I am also down 35 pounds from where I was 18 months ago. This is also the least I've weighed since... since I can remember. Before college, the my last weight measurement was when I played football in 9th and 10th grade and I remember being 175 then. I have eclipsed my high school-going, football-playing former self in weight loss. This should last for... a good 24 hours.
Yeah, I'll gain back weight to bring me back up. And, yeah, I'll have to work way harder than I did this past week to get it down further, but I am pretty happy with the results that I got. It's good motivation and a good starting place. I'm definitely headed in the right direction.
After getting off the scale I went straight to the orange juice. Aside from the idea of something new, I didn't really have any big expectations. Poured half a cup's worth. Took a sip.... WHOA! WHAT is THIS? I KNOW I just poured regular flavored orange juice into this here cup, so I know it's nothing crazy. I JUST opened it. Maybe it's because this is my first drink of the morning. Took a few more sips. This is EASILY the best drink of orange juice I've ever had. It was like I could taste more flavors now than ever. Dr. Pepper is, what, 23 flavors? But you only taste one. This orange juice had 23 flavors. Obviously this was a result of not having many flavors in eleven days. This was also my first sweet and non-tangy thing that I've had in this time period with the exception of the flavored ice. And I'm thinking that the flavored ice didn't have the same effect because it didn't move and swish all over inside my mouth. This got every crevice. This flavor didn't seem to change after cup two, cup three, or cup four. In fact, I changed brands of orange juice and I could tell the difference between the brands in ways I would've never noticed before. I guess having delicious tasting foods and flavors all the time dulls your taste buds a bit, preventing you from REALLY tasting all the subtleties available.
Aside from that, the day was pretty uneventful. I started asking my brother about his P90X experience, which apparently requires one to work out six days a week. Just trying to think ahead and plan for the next step. Quite a jump from Day One, where I was 186 pounds, eager to make some sort of change in my life, and acting out Gollum with his "He wants it, he NEEDS it" requests, but this time pertaining to food. Tomorrow will be a nice dose of fruits, vegetables, and tomato soup. Here's to coming back to normalcy whilst having the motivation to keep progressing.
STATS:
Weight: 174 (12 pounds lost)
Heavenly Drinks (OJ): 5
Death Drinks: 42
Water Glasses: 25
Foods I'm looking forward to: Chicken BLT, Chicken Parmesan Hero, Toasted Bagel with Butter, Toasted Muffin (Blueberry or Corn) with Butter, Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cherry Berry Chiller and McDouble (McDonald's) and perhaps Burger King Chicken Nuggets (or was that just a craving?).
You know you just had a day off from school or work when you go to type the date and you don't remember what it is. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway) I had a day off from work. Which means I slept in super late. I got myself up eventually (2:30ish?) and went to the scale to weigh myself expecting not to see any change from the day before.
174 Pounds! Not exactly the 169 I was hoping to get to, but it was way more exciting after staying at the 175/176 range for a few days. Not only have I dropped 12 pounds in the past ten days, but I am also down 35 pounds from where I was 18 months ago. This is also the least I've weighed since... since I can remember. Before college, the my last weight measurement was when I played football in 9th and 10th grade and I remember being 175 then. I have eclipsed my high school-going, football-playing former self in weight loss. This should last for... a good 24 hours.
Yeah, I'll gain back weight to bring me back up. And, yeah, I'll have to work way harder than I did this past week to get it down further, but I am pretty happy with the results that I got. It's good motivation and a good starting place. I'm definitely headed in the right direction.
After getting off the scale I went straight to the orange juice. Aside from the idea of something new, I didn't really have any big expectations. Poured half a cup's worth. Took a sip.... WHOA! WHAT is THIS? I KNOW I just poured regular flavored orange juice into this here cup, so I know it's nothing crazy. I JUST opened it. Maybe it's because this is my first drink of the morning. Took a few more sips. This is EASILY the best drink of orange juice I've ever had. It was like I could taste more flavors now than ever. Dr. Pepper is, what, 23 flavors? But you only taste one. This orange juice had 23 flavors. Obviously this was a result of not having many flavors in eleven days. This was also my first sweet and non-tangy thing that I've had in this time period with the exception of the flavored ice. And I'm thinking that the flavored ice didn't have the same effect because it didn't move and swish all over inside my mouth. This got every crevice. This flavor didn't seem to change after cup two, cup three, or cup four. In fact, I changed brands of orange juice and I could tell the difference between the brands in ways I would've never noticed before. I guess having delicious tasting foods and flavors all the time dulls your taste buds a bit, preventing you from REALLY tasting all the subtleties available.
Aside from that, the day was pretty uneventful. I started asking my brother about his P90X experience, which apparently requires one to work out six days a week. Just trying to think ahead and plan for the next step. Quite a jump from Day One, where I was 186 pounds, eager to make some sort of change in my life, and acting out Gollum with his "He wants it, he NEEDS it" requests, but this time pertaining to food. Tomorrow will be a nice dose of fruits, vegetables, and tomato soup. Here's to coming back to normalcy whilst having the motivation to keep progressing.
STATS:
Weight: 174 (12 pounds lost)
Heavenly Drinks (OJ): 5
Death Drinks: 42
Water Glasses: 25
Foods I'm looking forward to: Chicken BLT, Chicken Parmesan Hero, Toasted Bagel with Butter, Toasted Muffin (Blueberry or Corn) with Butter, Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cherry Berry Chiller and McDouble (McDonald's) and perhaps Burger King Chicken Nuggets (or was that just a craving?).
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