One of the side effects of this diet is a loss of appetite. In the first two weeks, this helped me get from meal to meal without the need to snack. By this point, I'm able to skip meals if I'm not careful. I'm pretty sure I shouldn't skip them, as I need the protein to keep muscle mass up. In the last two days, I ate brunch yesterday (About 6oz of steak), 2oz of pork chop this morning for breakfast, and didn't eat dinner until 10pm tonight. That's a skipped breakfast and two skipped big meals in 48 hours. I was hungry, but never so ravenous that I seriously contemplated going off the diet. So in some regards, it's working.
I've been successful in getting to the gym. Once there, I've been pretty able to keep my pulse rate in the target zone, but I'm less than thrilled with how fast I'm actually able to walk. Apparently I'm even further out of shape than I previously though, which bums me out.
If anybody is curious what a "normal" meal for me is, tonight I had 7oz of pork chop (after the fat was removed), 4oz of pickles (which is more than you think), and a tablespoon of ketchup (which is dramatically less than you think. Here is a picture for you're pleasure. Try not to get jealous.
Hey Steve, you might want to edit that picture. Your checking account number is completely visible...
ReplyDeleteThanks. It's actually an incorrect #, and I should have thrown those checks away, but I edited it anyway.
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