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Change Needed in Diet Plan
Sep. 28th, 2007 08:13 pmAfter three weeks on my not-allowed-to-bring-snacks-to-work diet, I've decided that I need to make a change. First of all, I should say that I have totally succeeded in not bringing snacks to work and not running off to buy snacks once I am there. I've eaten snacks, but only ones brought to work by others.
I did sometimes get too hungry to think well, but I could not be trusted the first two weeks to have anything available, because I would have snarfed it down at the first sign of, well, remembering it was there.
By the third week, I thought I would be good enough to handle having a single snack, and I was. I brought a single snack Wednesday and did not touch it until today. Today my brain went on the fritz at around 3:30, so I had half of my snack bar. Then the other half. By 4:00 my brain wasn't working again. By the time I got off work I had a hunger headache. This is not a way I want to be living, and probably not good for me anyway.
Wednesday and Thursday, I went out to eat; today I brought my lunch. I suspect I need to make myself bigger lunches. Luckily it's easy for me to calculate the calories of what I ate for lunch over the past three days. The days I ate out, I had lunches of about 700 calories. Today my lunch had about 300 calories. Yep, that supports my hypothesis.
Spanish word of the day - próstata (pronounced PRO-sta-ta) - I learned the word because this September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. (Good treatments exist nowadays.) The word sounds so much cuter and less clinical in Spanish.
Blog of the day - Freegan Girl, about a woman who decides to try Freeganism for a month. Even if you have no interest in this topic at all, her sense of humor is great. "Not to mention the fact that I don't even eat mushrooms, so any poisonous ones I picked would promptly be fed to friends and family. That would not only be tragic; but it might also find me charged with first degree murder and while I am the kind of person who picks out a defense attorney 'just in case,' I don't want to go there over some mushrooms."
"...gentle readers, if you have any advice on how to make okra that doesn't look like it fell out of the mouth of an alien, I would very much appreciate it."
Warnings: There are typing, grammar and punctuation problems, but it's too fun to bug me. The first two entries are almost identical; just skip the description and start with day one. The entries for days 11 - 13 and day 14 also are somewhat redundant, but they are both too hilarious to skip. In fact, if you read only one entry, the funniest choice would be Days 11 - 13: Queen of the World. Actually day 14 is not as funny, but it had one of my favorite parts which involves fantasizing about using a machete. (The most informative choice would be the last one, Day 31. (The easiest way I could find to read this blog was to start with the bottom (first) entry in the August archives, clicking the "continue reading" link for each entry one at a time (and then the back button). Don't read part of it and then click the link because it jumps to the top of the entry.)
I did sometimes get too hungry to think well, but I could not be trusted the first two weeks to have anything available, because I would have snarfed it down at the first sign of, well, remembering it was there.
By the third week, I thought I would be good enough to handle having a single snack, and I was. I brought a single snack Wednesday and did not touch it until today. Today my brain went on the fritz at around 3:30, so I had half of my snack bar. Then the other half. By 4:00 my brain wasn't working again. By the time I got off work I had a hunger headache. This is not a way I want to be living, and probably not good for me anyway.
Wednesday and Thursday, I went out to eat; today I brought my lunch. I suspect I need to make myself bigger lunches. Luckily it's easy for me to calculate the calories of what I ate for lunch over the past three days. The days I ate out, I had lunches of about 700 calories. Today my lunch had about 300 calories. Yep, that supports my hypothesis.
Spanish word of the day - próstata (pronounced PRO-sta-ta) - I learned the word because this September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. (Good treatments exist nowadays.) The word sounds so much cuter and less clinical in Spanish.
Blog of the day - Freegan Girl, about a woman who decides to try Freeganism for a month. Even if you have no interest in this topic at all, her sense of humor is great. "Not to mention the fact that I don't even eat mushrooms, so any poisonous ones I picked would promptly be fed to friends and family. That would not only be tragic; but it might also find me charged with first degree murder and while I am the kind of person who picks out a defense attorney 'just in case,' I don't want to go there over some mushrooms."
"...gentle readers, if you have any advice on how to make okra that doesn't look like it fell out of the mouth of an alien, I would very much appreciate it."
Warnings: There are typing, grammar and punctuation problems, but it's too fun to bug me. The first two entries are almost identical; just skip the description and start with day one. The entries for days 11 - 13 and day 14 also are somewhat redundant, but they are both too hilarious to skip. In fact, if you read only one entry, the funniest choice would be Days 11 - 13: Queen of the World. Actually day 14 is not as funny, but it had one of my favorite parts which involves fantasizing about using a machete. (The most informative choice would be the last one, Day 31. (The easiest way I could find to read this blog was to start with the bottom (first) entry in the August archives, clicking the "continue reading" link for each entry one at a time (and then the back button). Don't read part of it and then click the link because it jumps to the top of the entry.)