Day 13 - getting a little tired of red meat

Due to some complications, I'm staying in Detroit with my parents until Wednesday. It's great to spend time with my family, although part of me is starting to get slightly tired of eating steak. Since I arrived on thursday, our dinners (and hence my later meals) were: Filet Mignon, Filet mignon, lamb chops, and Ny Strip steaks. I haven't had chicken since lunch on Thursday. I'm not too worried about eating that much red meat, as it's on my diet with no warnings or restrictions, but a little variety is nice. Also, while I don't claim to have the greatest range of vegetables when eating at home, my parent's zest for a broccoli/cauliflower/carrot frozen vegetable blend every dinner confuses me. I have to eat the same stuff every day, so I'm not sure why they are.

My Ketosis has bumped into moderate to large territory, and the current theory for what's holding me back is the amount of nutrasweet I drink in my diet soda. I'm trying to cut back now on the aspartame. Since I've been home, I'm generally under my allotments, so I should be burning fat pretty quickly.

Last night I went to my brother's to hang out for the evening, and that was one of the big temptations. Going to his house virtually always involved junk food. I craved Del Taco with a fury. I'm hoping this is mostly a result of habit, and once I do a few reps without the junk food I get used to that. One of the great cliches of weight loss is that it requires a lifestyle change, not just a dietary change, and I'm living that. I will say, however, that when I say I really craved tacos, I don't need to hear that cliche. Just agree that wanting tacos when you can't have them really sucks, and we can be friends.