We started a diet today, my wife and I. I don’t know all the details, she’s got a whole schedule written out, every day of the week. I’ve never actually dieted like this before. Oh, I’ve made vague resolutions – to cut back on the sweets, to eat more vegetables – but, when you’re not specific, it’s easy to backslide.
This diet doesn’t seem to be too fanatical, so I should be able to live with it. Breakfast was muesli with yoghurt and strawberries, which wasn’t terribly filling but it was delicious. Lunch was a bit of skinless chicken and a portion of corn and peas. I cheated a bit and had an afternoon snack. I was hungry and I’m not going to go nuts with this. Dinner was a vegetable salad.
I’m sure it sounds like I’m slacking off already, but, for me, today was a huge reduction in my calory intake, and I’m sure if I can keep it up for a while, I’ll lose weight. The problem will be keeping it up forever because there’s the whole thing of gaining weight massively whenever you go off a diet, because you’re body, your fat body, defends itself.
On the positive side, maybe since we’re doing it together, there will be enough mutual reinforcement to keep it up.
My copies of “The Quest for Enlightenment and Everything” showed up today, so I went over to Shakespeare and Sons, which was a lovely walk through Prague, I took the Metro to Narodni Trida and walked from there, across the river, through Kampa Island, and it was a beautiful day, not beautiful in the sense of pleasant, it was bitterly cold, but beautiful in a stark, wintry way, and the river was high and rushing over the weir.
Dropped off my books, but of the ones they already have in stock, they’ve only sold one in the last 6 months or so, since I was there last. One is better than none, I guess.
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