OK, let’s get the numbers out of the way. I lost another 1.0 pounds for a total of 7.8 pounds and another 1/4 inch off my waist for a total of 1 1/2 inches. That’s a pretty good pace, if I say so myself. While I don’t recommend using the Master Cleanse Fast as a weight loss tool, you will invariably lose a decent amount of weight.
I’ve mentioned before that I timed the fast so that I would be doing my last weigh-in for the “Biggest Loser” type challenge at work just as I got done with the fast. I did this because, as mentioned above, the fast invariably causes weight loss. Anyway, yesterday at work my boss bought pizza (my favorite food) from Godfather’s (one of my favorite pizza places) for the team. Then, last night my parents came over to give us some baby stuff and afterwards took us out to dinner, not knowing I was on the fast. We went to Carlos O’Kelly’s, which just happens to be one of my favorite 5-10 restaurants and where I just had water and a cup of hot tea. After that, my wife and I met some friends to go to a movie, and I had a craving for popcorn, but I think mostly only because I always eat popcorn at the movies. Today, I am helping my cousin move and he will be buying pizza for everyone (did I mention pizza was my favorite food?). For tonight, my parents gave my wife and me free tickets to a spaghetti dinner (my second favorite food-as long as there are meatballs in the meat sauce) that her Lion’s Club is having. And, to top it all off, tomorrow night we are celebrating my father-in-law’s birthday by going out to dinner.
Obviously I am missing out on this free food, but I can’t decide if it is a good thing or bad thing. It is bad because four of the five meals are some of my favorites of all time (tomorrow’s dinner is at a Chinese restaurant, which I’m not fond of in the least) and I am missing out on them. On the other hand though, it is good that I am missing them all because I probably would have gorged myself, which wouldn’t be healthy and would probably offset the weight I have lost during the first two months or so of the weigh-loss challenge.
I didn’t mind missing the pizza that much yesterday because I didn’t have to look at it, but at Carlos O’Kelly’s I had the food right in front of me, so it was quite a bit more difficult. I caught myself staring at the chips they had for an appetizer a few times, and if you know me you know how much I don’t like plain chips. Luckily for me I was born without a sense of smell, so it was probably only 1/3 as tempting for me as it would be for someone who would have been able to smell the food.
I guess the moral of my ramblings are, if I can not give in to all of those temptations right in a row, you can handle your food temptations too.
