Days 8,9,10

I want to start by apologizing for my absence, but the last few days haven’t been very interesting.  I ran out of bread on day 7 and have yet to buy more.  This means I haven’t had any sandwiches over the last three days.  I have been eating mostly pancakes, oatmeal, ramen, applesauce, chimichangas, and bologna.  It hasn’t been too rough on me though.  When I weighed in on Monday I weighed 198 lbs – a loss of 5 lbs.  I am not as concerned about the number of lbs. lost, I am more concerned with how I feel; I have been feeling great.  Right now I am cooking up the last of my spaghetti and I can’t wait to eat it.  I will admit, I am starving right now.  I went to work at 11:00 this morning without eating breakfast, I wasn’t even thinking about it.  I had to work until 4:00, so you guessed it, I have yet to eat today!  I am not happy with my decision, but sometimes there’s nothing you can do about it.

Tomorrow I intend on picking up some more groceries although I have a mere $15 to spend.  Two loaves of bread and some bologna are at the top of my list.  Other than that, everything has been going well – better than I could have expected.  I do want to apologize one last time for not posting the last few days, I won’t let it happen again.  Thanks again to all of our readers out there!

JUICEmcfly

$2 a day: day ten

I’m more tired today than normal today. Our city basketball team had a game last night which was overly physical and I’m pretty sore today. The 8 am class is also tough to get up and rock, it’s the earliest class I’ve ever had. Hopefully in the next week or two I can get accustomed to getting up extra early on those class days.

Today has been somewhat lackadaisical and frustrating. I switched back to pancakes instead of bagels, and in my early morning stupor I ended up ruining the pancake. Also, the bag of apples I’ve bought is pretty crappy, almost all of them semi-mushy, and with plenty of bad spots. If only I could get the money back to get a different bag or use on something else. They are truely sub par.

Last night I had a big meal of hamburger helper. When I’m done with this experiment I may try making a batch of it without any extra pasta to see the taste difference, but I can still taste the seasonings, although I wish the flavor was stronger, it’s still noticeable in the mix and tastes good. The hamburger helper won’t last near as long as the spaghetti but I should get a handful of meals out of it, I’d estimate around 6 or so at this point, so we’ll see how it pans out.

I’m now a third of the way through the experiment and there are a few things I can’t believe. My friends would never of guessed I could go a month without a soda, which I think I’ll do but maybe I’ll drop a quarter on a can at Wal-Mart some night. I can’t believe how relatively easy it was to switch to this kind of eating style. I figured it’d be way tougher, but once I said I was going to do it and had a plan written out it fell in to place quite nicely. It makes me wonder how many calories my body really needs a day, because I was surely giving it more than that previously.

I appreciate the feedback I’ve gotten for the oatmeal and I hope to resolve that problem shortly and come up with a much more tastey way to eat the dish. We appreciate those of you who continue to read and those who leave us feedback.