Boing!
I gained 1.5 last week and lost 2 this
week – resulting in the “boing!” effect of boomeranging up and bouncing back
down, which results in very little cumulative loss over the past two
weeks. Also, obviously, I hid like a yellow bellied coward and didn’t
post a status report last week instead of fessing up to the gain. As Ted
wisely told me, people reading this deserve and need to know about the missteps
because… well… everybody has them, they’re a part of the journey and we all
need to know it’s not the end of the road (or the world).
To be honest I’ve been feeling pretty
uneasy of late. My appetite is large and relentless, forcing me to live
with constant, stomach-growling hunger for between three and seven hours each
waking day. This has been resulting in a few days each week where I blow
right past my 1,200 calorie goal and shoot up between 1,600 and 1,800 instead –
not a total disaster, just not where I want to be. I haven’t found a
solution for it. The depressing truth is if you’re going to keep your
body in a state of constant weight loss for months and months on end, it’s
going to respond by making you want to eat more so that you stop doing what it
incorrectly perceives as starving to death. I’ve considered begging my
doctor for an appetite suppressant but I’m just so scared of them, when people
have bad reactions to them it tends to be heart damage.
In better news there was a much happier
reason for gain last week than just succumbing to hunger: I took a trip to
upper state New York to see my niece’s horn recital at her college, which led
me to reverse engineer a healthier recipe for the fried Brussels sprouts I ate
at the New York Wine & Culinary Center while there. We won’t discuss
the gnocchi with pesto cream sauce… *ahem*
I'll be posting the recipe tomorrow as soon as I finish typing it up!
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| Mmm... tasty car... |
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