{"id":629,"date":"2010-07-27T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T19:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=629"},"modified":"2010-07-27T12:53:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T19:53:05","slug":"you-only-want-what-you-cant-have-or-day-2-on-a-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"You Only Want What You Can't Have, or Day 2 on a Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distrust everyone who tells you dieting is easy. Everyone<\/em>. For any reason. It isn’t easy at all. Diets are evil, pure and simple.<\/p>\n

And yes, we all know that diets don’t work and that healthy eating is the ticket and all that mumbo jumbo, but there comes a time when, as my friend told me, penance must be paid for the unhealthy habits of days gone by.<\/p>\n

Diets don’t work. It’s true. But they are sometimes necessary as a means of transitioning from here to there.<\/p>\n

I decided that to kick-start my own diet I would go for a few days of consuming only Slim-Fast, yogurt, and cereal. Not because I’m on the high calcium plan, though I have read that extra calcium is beneficial when dieting, but because I wanted food I didn’t have to think about. I didn’t think this would work in the long term, and I wasn’t planning to do it for more than a few days. I just thought it would help me to train my body to expect fewer calories in one sitting.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I had two bowls of cereal, one carton of yogurt, and one can of SlimFast. If you don’t count the half an egg salad sandwich and the two bananas, I did great.<\/p>\n

Today, so far I’ve had two cans of Slim-Fast and one bowl of cereal. That puts me right on track to finish out the day with a bowl of cereal and a yogurt for a snack. Maybe an extra banana if times get tough.<\/p>\n

I’m doing an excellent job of sticking to this.<\/p>\n

Except<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Except for one thing, two if you want to be picky about it.<\/p>\n

I’ve just cooked a pot of curried rice and a pan of vegetable potstickers. Understand that I’ve had no interest in cooking for months or maybe years. The whole point of Slim-Fast is that I don’t have to cook or to even think about what I’m eating.<\/p>\n

Except, of course, that if you aren’t eating as normal the one thing you can’t stop thinking about is what you are going to eat.<\/p>\n

Thus, there was nothing else for it, I had to make some curried rice. The potstickers just got in the way when I was making the rice.<\/p>\n

But this is not a loss. I’m not going to walk around with Diet Failure hanging over me.<\/p>\n

I have a new plan. It involves meticulous measuring. I’m going to measure out exactly one cup of curried rice to eat now (or somewhere close to a reasonable dinner time), and I’m going to divide the rest into one cup portions to go into the freezer so that they become my future homemade semi-lean cuisines.<\/p>\n

Who knows about the potstickers. I’ve told myself I’m allowed to eat one today.<\/p>\n

Except, of course, I’ve already eaten two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Distrust everyone who tells you dieting is easy. Everyone. For<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dieting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}