The Hammer of Thor

Alright

I finished my first week on the Slow-Carb diet.

Early observations:

• I have to eat a lot more food at each meal than I would expect/am used to
• Even eating more food, I find myself hungry about an hour or two after eating
• In general I am finding that I have more energy and just plain feel better most of the time
• Due to the amount of food required to eat, this diet is proving fairly expensive
• I love the cheat day
• I hate the cheat day

Today was the first cheat day, and I really went for it.  My breakfast consisted of Swiss Cake Rolls, Keebler Jumbo Fudge Sticks, and Jones Green Apple Soda.  It was delicious.  The only thing remotely sweet I had had the entire week was a glass of lemonade Crystal Light that I had yesterday.  My tongue danced with delight upon tasting something sweet.  For lunch today I went out with my friends from church to Famous Dave’s and had a Texas Manhandler with fries and a dessert.  So good.  After that we went over to our friend Adam Burton’s house and watched the NFC and AFC championship games.  Both the teams that I wanted to win won each game, so I was happy.  While there, I had some Pringles, Chex Mix, and Sour Patch Kids.  Then we ordered pizza.  I had five slices.  Then I came home and tried to get rid of as many Swiss Cake Rolls and those Fudge Sticks that I could so I wouldn’t have to look at them all week.  I also drank two more Jones sodas.  I’ve probably had WAYYYY too many calories today, but that’s what I was supposed to do.  It was good to eat junk, and I succeeded in what the author of the diet said to do: eat so much junk that you don’t want to even look at it the rest of the week.  Mission: accomplished.  I’m craving my healthy food and drinking just water/tea/coffee again.

I don’t have a scale, so tracking weight loss is gonna be kind of hard to do.  I have an estimated start weight, and I’m going to be taking weekly photographs of my physique until I’ve lost the weight I’m aiming to lose and then I’ll post them all in a blog so you can see the transition.

Today was fun, but it was also kind of a tough/frustrating/generally-life-draining day for reasons I couldn’t begin to explain.  This blog is really helpful for me to vent and get out my frustrations with the world, but there are some topics and issues that are to be kept secret because either they’ll either reveal something I have no desire for anyone else to know or they’re on sensitive subject matter that I don’t want certain people to know about.  I’m allowed to keep some things secret.  It’s just frustrating because I want so badly to vent about it but I’m not going to do it here.  Maybe if I kept a personal journal.  I kind of do, but I haven’t written in it for close to a year.  Maybe I’ll pick it up one of these days.  Maybe not.

Meh.

I’m kind of angry that I have Bruno Mars stuck in my head right now.  One reason I hate mainstream music is because I swear there is some secret algorithm they use when they write the song that makes it attach to your brain like a remora… or cancer.  Probably cancer.  Cheap tactics, mainstream music writers, very cheap…

And thank you for getting that song stuck in my head.  You know who you are…

That “thank you” was sarcastic.