So let's get this bitch-wagon movin'! First let me say that I did eventually re-lose the weight I gained during my Christmas sojourn up north. It took about a week and it was totally worth it. Sadly I haven't lost jack crap since then. Now that's partially my fault because I discovered a dirty little secret with MyFitnessPal. If you "forget" to log something in your daily diary... it's like you never ate it in the first place! And MyFitnessPal, while being a very supportive and well designed piece of software, isn't smart enough to know that you're full of shit and hiding things from it. Soooo... yeah that's a bit of a problem. I'm holding steady but considering the cravings I've been having lately I'd like to be seeing a little more bang for my buck.
Now on to the real bug up my not-quite-so-fat-anymore ass. Lent. 40 days of mostly no change to my life at all, except for Fridays. For the non-Catholics in the crowd, Fridays in Lent are when Catholics go without meat to symbolically remind themselves how stupid vegetarians are (or something like that). Now in the past Lent was no big deal. My Friday meu options used to look like this:
Pasta
Pizza
Fried Fish
Tuna fish sandwiches
But thanks to my fantastic calorie limit, my new menu looks like this:
Something vegetarian
Oh goody.
Thankfully in times like this I can always count on my wife for some creative alternatives. Her brilliant ideas so far have consisted of millet (apparently people do eat birdfood), lentil soup and fish-type things. Let's just say that's a far cry from my carbo-loading loves. I shall keep you all updated on what I end up eating between now and Easter, but we are definitely not off to a good start.
