Step 1 : Collect Underpants

[hhatcher]

Well, it's a slightly more reasonable plan than that. First day of the new diet. I just wasn't able to stick with the crazy cheater diet.

1500 calories a day, 2250 calories two days a week.

Bowl of cheerios in skim milk for breakfast, large navel orange for my first snack at about 10:30 AM.

Moderately hungry, but not unbearable. Just about to head to lunch, where I will eat a salami and cheese sandwich.


I recently read an article that compared weight watchers to an RPG. The xkcd strip about exercise is also appropriate. We'll see if it's a game that holds my interest, but I'm hopeful.

Comments

[jedipussytricks.livejournal.com]

Having more calories a couple days a week sounds like a good way to make it easier to stick to.

This is just me, but I find that when I'm working on goals it helps to have spreadsheets and charts (and twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was) to track my progress. I find it very satisfying and motivating to see my progress in graphical format. But I'm all OCD like that...

[tranceboy.livejournal.com]

The calorie bumps are partially to make it feel like you're not deprived, but also so that your metabolism doesn't go into "starvation mode".

And yeah, I've got a Google docs spreadsheet where I'm keeping a food diary, although I've been looking at FitDay and it's pretty nifty.