Monkey Shines

This is my pantry after being swept clean of anything edible.

Start date: 05/12/10   248 pounds          

Today: 05/15/10  241 pounds       

Attitude: Surprised.

Some things I have discovered since I started this diet:

1) I usually spend most of Saturday writing a trivia game which is run in Egghead Trivia on AOL on Saturday nights at 9PM Central. (plug!)  While I sit at the computer, I can see my TV which is in the bedroom. On Saturdays, I leave the TV on PBS all day and keep an eye on the bead show, then the sewing shows, then the cooking shows, then This Old House.  The cooking shows were tough to watch today. Everything looked wonderful, especially this three layer chocolate cake with pudding between the layers.

2) I cleaned out my cupboards and loaded most of it for Jane’s house. I had a LOT of expired food. How could I have food that had expired four years ago?  When did I buy instant oatmeal? Where did the ginger chutney come from?  I took a picture of the last apple and pears I am mourning not having eaten and another of the empty cupboard.  

Two Beautiful Boscs and a Loverly Red Delicious

3) My kitchen is going to lie fallow for a while. I’m going to have to remember to run the dishwasher just to keep it operating. The stove has never gotten much use anyway. I wonder if I should just pull it out and replace it with a bookshelf? I need more room for books.   The refrigerator now contains only bottled water, 2 boxes of Velveeta cheese (for giving the dogs their pills) and 2 bottles of insulin for my dog, Mel. 

4) I cheated on my diet today. I am only allowed to have black decaffeinated coffee. I LOVE coffee. I HATE black coffee. It’s been bothering me for three days. I even tried putting some of the liquid diet in my coffee with disasterous results. So, this morning, instead of feeling deprived, I put a tablespoon of sugar-free hazelnut flavored creamer in my coffee.  I felt like a rebel.

5) Drinking a lot of water is not as hard as I have thought it would be. I have resisted for years. I am refilling the plastic bottles with filtered water from the tap. I have easily exceeded the 120 ounce requirement for the last two days. Had I forced myself to drink water before, I might have saved a small fortune on this diet plan.

6) Losing weight fast sure makes you stay on track. Four days in and I was down 7 pounds this morning. Any twinge of hunger has been met with the idea that tomorrow I could be even lighter.

7) The support of friends and family means more than anything. Thank you all for your kind words.

Donna