The Isolated Blurt Thread V: For Vendetta

[Laurel]

Yesterday - the day after my first 500-calorie day - I woke up pretty excited to eat, but not totally starving like I thought I would. I'd fallen asleep fantasizing about the cheeseburger I would enjoy the next day. When the food came, I ate and it tasted good. From there, I ate as much as usual the rest of the day. Didn't feel the need to pig out. Did reward myself with a piece of chocolate.

Today was my second fast day. Drank tea with stevia (which, it turns out, is a great no-calorie sweetener, didn't taste "like crap" like I'd read some say online). The book says you should fill your fast days with proteins and veggies because they're satiating. They suggest stuff like a steamed chicken breast with a leafy salad - which to me sounds like boring blah blah bland.

But I worked around that. Today we ate Thai, so my one meal was a Thai grilled chicken breast (146 calories) and a nice filling plate of green papaya salad full of green beans, tomatoes, and peanuts, with a spicy chili lime dressing (156 calories total). Spicy low- and no-calorie chili-based sauces (and spicy mustard! even though it's Chinese, not Thai, but whatev) to lightly dip bites of meat in really make the difference. I was full and happy - mouth AND stomach - at meal's end.

Later tonight I'll eat 185 calories worth of roasted nuts while watching our nightly movie. So it'll be a 487-calorie day.

There was one point between waking and my lunch when it suddenly occurred to me that I hadn't eaten anything. And I felt absolutely fine. I'd been working diligently on stuff, and my mind felt sharp. My mood was very good. I felt relaxed and focused.

Late afternoon when I knew food was coming, my belly did rumble obnoxiously loud. Also around the time I would normally eat dinner, I did feel a bit of a pang. But I just kept busy and it faded. Other than that though, I can't say I felt deprived or awful or crazy-hungry. I felt...good. Better than usual, actually.

I think being busy is important so that I don't think about food. Luckily, I've got tons of work to do to keep me distracted.

A cup of tea (black with stevia) here and there helped. Drank lots of water - and diet lemon soda because it's yummy with no calories.

Lately I've been hit with this insane fatigue around mid-afternoon, which I write off to not enough calories or needing more caffeine. But now I'm starting to wonder if that's not genuine fatigue, but rather the crash from the calorific morning lattes with sugar I've been drinking lately "to stay alert". Maybe constantly pounding my system with sugary caffeine is making me less energetic instead of more. Today, sans latte, I didn't feel that mid-afternoon crappiness at all. Did take a short nap because I was home and I could. But I could've gone napless today without trouble.

And, of course, I know that tomorrow (and through the weekend, yay!) I can eat like normal - which makes it easy to grin and bear it. Next week I'll choose another two non-consecutive days for fasting (maybe Monday and Thursday? Or Wednesday? Definitely not a weekend.) But honestly, this isn't as hard as I thought it would be. I'll find out on Monday when I weigh myself if it's actually having any effect thereabouts.

Short version: so far so good.

 

[Lorilei]

Last night I dreamed that I was vacationing at this insanely luxurious and beautiful beachfront condo, but for some reason the only music that was available was Avril Levigne and Celine Dion. It was hell.

 

[Queersetti]

Sometime in the 19th century a group of men got together in their new settlement to discuss what to call it.

They might have chosen to name the town in honor one of their own, or a great man of the nation, a historical figure perhaps. Or they could have named it for an ancestral village in Britain, or after some local geographic landmark, such as a hill or a river.

They chose to name the town Meddybemps.

Maine. It's like Earth, but not exactly.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I've never been to Maine. I happened to see one of those "best of" shows on the Food Network though that spent some time eating lobsters there, and I put it on my to-do list.

 

[Queersetti]

I've never been to Maine. I happened to see one of those "best of" shows on the Food Network though that spent some time eating lobsters there, and I put it on my to-do list.

Let me give you a tip for when you visit. Most of the lobster shacks give the locals a discount, but you have to know the password.

It's Passagassawakeag.

Make sure you pronounce it right.

 

[trysail]

Maine. It's like Earth, but not exactly.

Yeah— it only has two seasons: winter and July.


​

 

[JohnnySavage]

Let me give you a tip for when you visit. Most of the lobster shacks give the locals a discount, but you have to know the password.

It's Passagassawakeag.

Make sure you pronounce it right.

The drool on my eating bib is actually because I like lobster, but many times it's mistaken for a physical/mental issue and I always get the Cadillac treatment.

 

[snugglestruggle]

Good Morning!

 

[Queersetti]

The drool on my eating bib is actually because I like lobster, but many times it's mistaken for a physical/mental issue and I always get the Cadillac treatment.

A flannel shirt and a pair of Bean boots and you can pass for a native.

 

[Noor]

Histamine intolerance... hmm. Maybe that is the real reason Benadryl works for sleep in some people.

This drug seems to be not as advertised.

 

[HoHoBomb]

I can't stand wannabes who move here and sit around talking about change.
They never take action.

 

[thør]

Let me give you a tip for when you visit. Most of the lobster shacks give the locals a discount, but you have to know the password.

It's Passagassawakeag.

Make sure you pronounce it right.

Or, visit after Labor Day when the prices go down.

 

[Queersetti]

Or, visit after Labor Day when the prices go down.

Ah, but by then, the locals have taken down the "genuine antiques" signs, and put their dining room chairs back in the house.

 

[thør]

Ah, but by then, the locals have taken down the "genuine antiques" signs, and put their dining room chairs back in the house.

And, you might have to wear a jacket.

Last time, we drove north until the signs advertised lobster dinner with 3 lobsters for $10.99. In NH, it was a single lobster in the dinner for $10.99. Then, 10 miles into Maine, it went to two lobsters. Another half hour, and it was 3 lobsters.

 

[Queersetti]

And, you might have to wear a jacket.

Last time, we drove north until the signs advertised lobster dinner with 3 lobsters for $10.99. In NH, it was a single lobster in the dinner for $10.99. Then, 10 miles into Maine, it went to two lobsters. Another half hour, and it was 3 lobsters.

There are few other places in the world where mixing lobster with mayonnaise and eating it on a hot dog bun is considered socially acceptable behavior.

 

[butters]

no wonder stephen king can write about people's oddness with such insight

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

We came by our oddness in an honest way. We inherited it.

Convinced by his advisors of the advantages and necessity of colonizing parts of North America, the English King, James I, granted a charter in 1606 to the Virginia Company. This royal decree gave a group of merchants, large landowners, and aristocratic gentlemen the rights to all American coastal lands from North Carolina to lower Nova Scotia. They soon moved to establish two colonies, one at Jamestown, Virginia and one at present-day Popham Beach, Maine.

http://www.mfship.org/Maines_First_Ship/History.html

(Should we discuss the oddness that we inherited from the French ?)

 

[thør]

There are few other places in the world where mixing lobster with mayonnaise and eating it on a hot dog bun is considered socially acceptable behavior.

It is rather barbaric when you stop to think about it.

 

[Noor]

And, you might have to wear a jacket.

Last time, we drove north until the signs advertised lobster dinner with 3 lobsters for $10.99. In NH, it was a single lobster in the dinner for $10.99. Then, 10 miles into Maine, it went to two lobsters. Another half hour, and it was 3 lobsters.

They used to be fairly inexpensive in New Brunswick...

 

[Noor]

There are few other places in the world where mixing lobster with mayonnaise and eating it on a hot dog bun is considered socially acceptable behavior.

Boston-Lobster rolls.

 

[Noor]

A flannel shirt and a pair of Bean boots and you can pass for a native.

I still have my made to measure Quoddys from decades ago.

 

[JohnnySavage]

To stay on topic:

I just had a seafood salad. Lobster, crab, shrimp, and some lettuce for effect. It came to the table and I said to myself, "Johnny, you are going to be eating that sea monster for days." I soldiered on though and ate it in about an hour.

 

[thør]

To stay on topic:

I just had a seafood salad. Lobster, crab, shrimp, and some lettuce for effect. It came to the table and I said to myself, "Johnny, you are going to be eating that sea monster for days." I soldiered on though and ate it in about an hour.

Just keep taking all those pills the doc gave you.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Just keep taking all those pills the doc gave you.

I'm out of town and left them on the kitchen counter at home. I'll be fine till Monday. I had lettuce after all.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

You left out what kind of spices the seafood was cooked with.
And you left out what kind of dressing that the salad had.