Day 4, it turns out, is a great big giant improvement over Day 3. Though I’ve been hungry at times, I haven’t felt starved at any point. I haven’t felt shaky and panicked. I haven’t had any long, unpleasant daydreams about Snickers bars.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure if that’s because I’m starting to adjust to fewer calories, or if it is because I went about things differently. I did not, you see, start the day with a Slimfast. I made an omelette instead…with Egg Beaters, of course. By my calculations, which could be wildly inaccurate for all I know, my omelette had about 260 calories. That’s 80 calories more than a Slimfast, but I didn’t feel hungry again all morning, which means I didn’t have a mid-morning snack, which means that in the end I consumed fewer calories in the am hours today than I did yesterday.<\/p>\n
I did have a Slimfast for lunch. I was in my office by then, and honestly, there’s no place worse than Ellisville, MS to be on a diet, particularly if you are a vegetarian. Ask me sometime about the faculty dinner last year at which I ate a pack of snack crackers from my friend’s purse because there was not a single vegetarian item on the menu, not even the salad. I quake at the idea of returning for another faculty orientation for that reason alone. On a good day, the most vegetarian items to be found are cheese pizza and yogurt parfaits. Unless, of course, you don’t really care if your lettuce leaves are a little wilty and you have to pick a little ham off of them. On a bad day…well, there are some bad days. That’s all I’m going to say.<\/p>\n
At any rate, it isn’t possible to diet at work without taking your own lunch. I took Slimfast because I didn’t have time to think up anything else.<\/p>\n
An hour later I was hungry. I ate some almonds and muddled through.<\/p>\n
I still had a better day. I still had a hungry but not starved day. Maybe it is all about the egg beaters.<\/p>\n