I’m finding that the biggest opponent of staving off hunger is staying awake longer than is necessary. Actually, I knew that, because back in like 2006 when I was actively dieting pretty well, I had some pretty regimented hours because my life wasn’t in a particularly good place, and I slept a lot to deal with a lot of the depression I was dealing with, so I went to bed at pretty predictable hours and had a pretty routine schedule as far as eating went. It was probably close to intermittent fasting before intermittent fasting was coined.
Dealing with a possible emergency situation with one of the house’s pets and went to an emergency clinic for the first time ever. Now I’ve heard lots of things, mostly negative about emergency vets, but almost all of them involve lots of waiting. Which is kind of fair, because you’re going with no appointments, the on-call doctors there have to react and diagnose quickly, and things can go tits up with one bad decision.
Regardless, I sat in the parking lot for two hours after being told 30 minutes to an hour, watched several cars that came after me leave before I did, so I called to find out what was up, only to find out that my pet hadn’t been seen yet, and “was next” in about 30-45 minutes. I told them I didn’t live far, and they finished the statement for me by telling me to go home. So instead of doing the critical schoolwork I had planned on doing this evening, in the indeterminable window of time it will take for my pet to be seen, I’m catching up on writing this diatribe as well as summarizing my Dr. Nowzaradan diet’s day, as I have been doing over the last week.
But yeah, I’m typically in bed by now, and the hunger I’m feeling isn’t registering while I’m asleep. But because I’m not asleep, the hunger is real, and I know I’m not eating again until like 7:30 am. Combined with anxiousness over the wellbeing of my pet, this is not a particularly good way to start a very well-needed weekend.
Breakfast – Same as Day 3
Snack – Same as Day 1
Lunch – Same as Day 1
Snack – Same as Day 1 + 0.7oz extra turkey (end of package, 30 cal, 5g pro)
Dinner – Same as Day 1
Exercise
• 50 sit-ups (50)
• 125 push-ups (25, 70, 30)
Total
1,225 calories, 129.5 grams of protein.
Total cost: $9.35
