Slow-carb Day 2!

So far so good, and I've almost finished the book for the second time with much better notes on how all of this will work. Especially the cheat day. Someone should really teach this guy how to write a simple set of instructions, instead of burying everything in anecdotes and experiment results. However, I actually do find his writing easy to read and enjoy the book, I just enjoy some good old fashioned clarity. Now I've just got to find time to pick up supplements and a kettlebell or two this week and I should be well on my way.

concerning my tea yesterday, I think it may be the steeped chicory root that makes the tea sweet? or a combination of the chicory and the cinnamon. regardless, either will be fine for the diet I believe. It's saccharides, which I think are slightly different than sugar, but I'll do more research when I'm sure about the chicory. I have another tea that gets a very similar heavy-sweet taste when oversteeped, so I'll see if it contains chicory to compare. I can't see it being a problem though, which opens a pretty interesting window to ways to sweeten my coffee. (something I'm ALREADY struggling with.) so tomorrow I think I'm going to try coffee with a teabag steeped in it and a spoonful of coconut milk too. I think both those things should be okay and pretty delicious, and hopefully will result in some kind of spicy but tasty coffee that I can survive drinking, since I hate it black, and cinnamon doesn't work for me. I mean, I love cinnamon, but it just doesn't sweeten coffee. if it works maybe I'll see if I can find straight up dried chicory to use as a weird sweetener.

so here's my food day:

bfast: 1/2 avacado, hard boiled egg, an organic pepperoni stick. sue me, I bought turkey bacon today.

lunch: sugar-free redbull, bo la lot, chicken, beef and shrimp skewers. Glass of ice water. there was probably a bit of sugar in the vietnamese barbecue sauce, but it was easily the most SC option on the menu. I need to check red bull and see if it's aspartame (it tastes like aspartame..) and not sucralose.


Mistake! So I forgot it was may today and forgot to buy a transit ticket on my way home and got slapped with a $150 ticket. with like $2000 worth of old transit passes on my person. yeah, I'm really trying to scam the system with my monthly passes for the last 29 months. So I was pissy about that and my brother called to ask if I wanted a bubble tea since he was getting one on the way home so I said yes, Taro with tapioca, and he brought it and a drank half of it before I even considered.. tapioca! milk! sugar out the wazoo! honest, taro I wouldn't even be sure about!  so damn. that probably messed things up. I took 2 tsp of lemon juice and did two minutes of high intensity exercise (jump squats) and then repeated about 45 minutes later to attempt to damage control a little bit, but who knows. oops. not a habit yet.

dinner: I made a pork tenderloin in a marinade of garlic, olive oil, cumin and ginger with soy sauce. Made sort of a quick-stew of black beans, stewed tomatoes, onion, garlic and zucchini with cumin and black pepper. I have to go get some tamari because it doesn't contain any wheat like regular soy sauce, but havent had time yet, so have just been cutting it down. Pork tenderloin is so reliably delicious. I don't understand people who don't eat pork.

later: glass of red wine and I actually drank a whole litre of water after work too. I need to get better with the water and liquid intake.

other than the bubble tea I feel like I'm adjusting nicely, feeling starving of course, but I still fully expect that to go away and will only be concerned about it in 3 days or so. everything has been delicious too, so that keeps me feeling perky about it.

weight: 113.8 lbs. officially can't give blood anymore, the one downside of losing some weight. hopefully I'll put it back on in muscle later and can still do that.

other news:
-took possession of my new apartment today. decided on Roomba, Dishwasher and living room furniture as my initial purchases, as well as being allowed to paint. awesome.
-it's been raining here forever. gross.