Day 5

Current weight: 226 lbs
Goal: 190 lbs

Tilapia with spices and sauteed onions/peppers.
Already we're repeating food.

 

Ultimately, the goal of most diets is not to lose weight by eating what they tell you, but to come to hate food enough that you stop eating.

We're about at that point.  The restrictiveness of cycle 1 of the 17 day diet combined with the lack of variety in foodstuffs available in East Bummington New Hampshire doesn't leave a lot of room for fun and taste.

Which brings me to my thought of the day.  I wonder how many diet authors, while writing their books filled with bok choy and kefir and East Indian weatgrass realize that a good number of us don't have access to these things.  I'm sure in their neighborhood, there's a Whole Foods across the street from every Starbucks, but up here, we're lucky to find rhubarb out of season.