Day 2 and Hunger Isn't Everything

Last night's meal - chicken breast with a spice rub from allrecipes.com.
It's hit and miss with flavorings to get you through 28 days of chicken
breasts and white fish.

Weight: 230 lbs
Goal: 190

Breakfast today:
2 eggs, fried to a dreary tan color in a pan without any oil
green tea
grapes

Lunch:
"Super Salad", in 17 Day Diet parlance.  To the rest of the world this would be known as a typical side salad.  Oh, but you can have all of it you want!  Goody gumdrops!  More on that shortly
green tea

Dinner:
A surprisingly tasty tilapia w/ herb rub and asparagus, courtesy of my wife and Señor Google.
green...f'in...tea

Probiotic/fruit snacks to fill the requirements.

OK, so why am I bitching about the salad, aside from the obvious fact that it's a typical side salad renamed to sound like you're getting a treat?  It's this insistence that somehow being able to fill up on rabbit food means something.  This does 0 to satisfy my cravings for something fatty, sugary or creamy.  I could stuff myself until I had little carrot shaped bulges protruding from my navel and I would still gladly devour a 12 oz. sirloin, complete with sauce.  Do these diet books really think it's about being full?  It's about being satisfied people!  I think many people fall off the wagon because, no matter how inventive you get with spices, eventually you just need a strawberry shortcake after dinner.  Too much deprivation and you're going to make that a double scoop, three biscuit, half tub of whippit, face stuffing extravaganza instead of a nice after dinner treat.

Tonight's meal was good.  It went a long way to keeping me from that bag of cookies my wife's friend brought over the other night.  We'll see how many more of those we can whip up before that shortcake looks too tempting to pass up.