January 4, 2012
Day 2
There's a common theme in carb-restricted diets that it takes a couple of days for your body to stop assuming that you're going to keep shoving starches and sugars down your piehole ... and once that happens you start to feel great. That waiting period feeling is aptly called the 'induction flu'.
Holy hell did I feel awful this morning. I did stay up way too late watching a bowl game last night, but I was still not prepared to bolt awake at 8:30 and say "holy **** I have to leave for work in 10 minutes". A little coffee did nothing for a dull headache and I just generally felt off. So I took a nap after doing a couple hours and felt much, much better this afternoon. Not energetic, but better.
So it goes. Feeling fine now, hoping for more energy tomorrow though.
I didn't have enough fat with my lunch yesterday and was ravenous by dinnertime. Much better today and from past experience I know that after a week or two I will have fully adjusted and will never be hungry.
Menu:
Breakfast: Coffee. Too late for food, should have at least grabbed cheese. Dumb.
Lunch: About 4-6 oz of leftover spiral ham, 2 big slices sharp cheddar cheese. Rushed.
Snack: 2 oz spanish peanuts. Need to have a better snack on hand after I finish the can.
Dinner: 3 Johnsonville beef brats with jalapeno mustard, small salad of lettuce, american cheese, green olives, ranch dressing. "2" avacados.
I didn't like the taste of the salad so I only had a few bites. Trying a different lettuce mix next time (or maybe I'll just get head lettuce). I had a couple overripe avacados sitting around -- was going to make guacamole for new year's eve but didn't -- so I ate those instead. I say "2" because I didn't eat anything that possibly could have been less than 100% tasty.
Speaking of avacados, that was the first time I've ever "prepared" them myself! I only discovered last year that I reallllly like avacado and I've never been motivated to eat them at home, I just get avacado as a burger topping or on a taco salad.
Thought about having a half grapefruit for dessert but never did.
Day 2
There's a common theme in carb-restricted diets that it takes a couple of days for your body to stop assuming that you're going to keep shoving starches and sugars down your piehole ... and once that happens you start to feel great. That waiting period feeling is aptly called the 'induction flu'.
Holy hell did I feel awful this morning. I did stay up way too late watching a bowl game last night, but I was still not prepared to bolt awake at 8:30 and say "holy **** I have to leave for work in 10 minutes". A little coffee did nothing for a dull headache and I just generally felt off. So I took a nap after doing a couple hours and felt much, much better this afternoon. Not energetic, but better.
So it goes. Feeling fine now, hoping for more energy tomorrow though.
I didn't have enough fat with my lunch yesterday and was ravenous by dinnertime. Much better today and from past experience I know that after a week or two I will have fully adjusted and will never be hungry.
Menu:
Breakfast: Coffee. Too late for food, should have at least grabbed cheese. Dumb.
Lunch: About 4-6 oz of leftover spiral ham, 2 big slices sharp cheddar cheese. Rushed.
Snack: 2 oz spanish peanuts. Need to have a better snack on hand after I finish the can.
Dinner: 3 Johnsonville beef brats with jalapeno mustard, small salad of lettuce, american cheese, green olives, ranch dressing. "2" avacados.
I didn't like the taste of the salad so I only had a few bites. Trying a different lettuce mix next time (or maybe I'll just get head lettuce). I had a couple overripe avacados sitting around -- was going to make guacamole for new year's eve but didn't -- so I ate those instead. I say "2" because I didn't eat anything that possibly could have been less than 100% tasty.
Speaking of avacados, that was the first time I've ever "prepared" them myself! I only discovered last year that I reallllly like avacado and I've never been motivated to eat them at home, I just get avacado as a burger topping or on a taco salad.
Thought about having a half grapefruit for dessert but never did.
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