Today marks one full week of eating as if I were a featured patient on My 600 Lb. Life, wanting to get weight-loss surgery from Dr. Nowzaradan [Bariatric Surgeon].
Honestly, it hasn’t been so much difficult adhering to a 1,200 calorie diet, so much as it just sucks having these weird energy spikes from being hungry to eating and feeling normal for a little bit before your stamina bar depletes down and then it’s kind of a slog until the times when more food enters your system. And in spite of my claims to be able to eat the same things over and over again on end, I guess it should be modified to be more along the lines of being able to eat the same trash over and over again on end, because there’s a difference between eating Willy’s for 240 days out of a year versus if I had to eat the same canned chicken and spinach salad every day for lunch for the same amount of time.
However, in some ironic sense, today’s menu was kind of altered, on account of the fact that I’m running out of the first week’s supply of food. The package of Kirkland turkey and the Kirkland-branded canned chicken have been depleted after six days, and basically my only source of protein left are the one flank of salmon I have left, and a whole shitload of chicken breakfast sausages – so I’ve been eating a shitload of chicken breakfast sausages today. Which is actually fine, because those are among the things I liked the most during this week.
Also, I picked up a bottle of hot sauce, because the stuff has zero calories and adds a ton of flavor to just about anything. Much like the tagline for Frank’s goes, you really can put that shit on anything.
Regardless, today has been somewhat of a challenge, mostly unrelated to food however. The guinea pig we had to take to the emergency vet last night, somehow required being there for 5.5 hrs in the end, which doesn’t change my perception that they prioritized every dog and cat that was brought in over my little pig, regardless of how much sooner I came in, and I didn’t get to bed until around 3 am, knowing that I only had three hours to sleep before it was time to start my child’s day.
But as is the norm in my life, I endure, I solder and I keep on moving along, regardless of the myriad of stress, frustration and general disdain I might feel. Always forward.
Breakfast – Same as Day 3
Snack
- 1 link Amylu chicken sausage (43 cal, 4g pro)
- 1/2 slice Martin’s whole grain bread (55 cal, 2.5g pro)
- 1/4 cup Daisy low-fat cottage cheese (45 cal, 6.5g pro)
143 calories, 13 grams of protein. Total cost: 70¢
Lunch (pictured above)
- 5 links of Amylu chicken sausage (215 cal, 20g pro)
- 2 cups of spinach (20 cal, 1g pro)
- 1 slice cheddar cheese (80 cal, 5g pro)
415 calories, 26 grams of protein. Total cost: $1.99
Snack (same as earlier)
- 1 link Amylu chicken sausage (43 cal, 4g pro)
- 1/2 slice Martin’s whole grain bread (55 cal, 2.5g pro)
- 1/4 cup Daisy low-fat cottage cheese (45 cal, 6.5g pro)
143 calories, 13 grams of protein. Total cost: 70¢
Dinner – Same as Day 1
Exercise
- 50 sit-ups (50)
- 120 push-ups (25, 25, 40, 30)
Total
1,186 calories, 105.5 grams of protein.
Total cost: $7.96
