Relaxed Weekend

Weight: 224

My weight ticked up a bit. I was off my diet strictly over the weekend.  I had Huhot Mongolian barbque on Friday night. I had some chicken with my meal.  I also had some eggdrop soup.  On Saturday, I juiced with V8 for lunch.  On Sunday I had V8 for lunch, but then had some fruit and a meal on the way home from the show. My meal was at Ryan’s—a buffet place with a decent salad bar.

I had a salad and used a technique my mother-in-law taught me to dip your fork tines into a container of dressing, then stab your salad and avoid smearing gobs of dressing all over everything.  I also had some chicken, some cooked green-beans, some steamed cabbage and fruit. When I got home, I had some veggies and some cashew butter.

I suspect the weight gain is more related to food that is still in my system and not processed, yet. 

I’m back on my juice fast again today.  I will be on it through the week and then visit Ryan’s again (different city) when I go out of town with my oldest daughter for a comedy club event that we’ve been planning for several months.

I didn’t take my Byetta this weekend. I flat out forgot.  It was a busy weekend and I’m rather impressed that I was able to maintain as much of my regimen as I did.

It was nice to have some solid food again, but I’m looking forward to my evening juicing. I’m finding that I actually crave the simplicity of the liquid diet. Preparation and cleanup is a chore—thankfully absorbed by my wife and children who get a kick out of helping me.  The whole prospect of the meal is so simple, though.  Make it. Drink it. Done.  It’s nice to be full and yet feel so empty.  I remember how marvelous it felt to be full and have nothing at all in my system.  I had no desire to eat at all. I wasn’t thinking about my next meal, I wasn’t wishing I had more food, I was completely focused on what was at hand.

I want to get back there…