Cabbage Soup Diet - Day 2 Report
Weight: 113.6 kg
Weight Variance: 1.40 kg net loss
Fasting Blood Sugar: 5.5 mmol/L
Feeling: Cranky
Today’s Cabbage-tinged offering: Veggie mountains
What do I miss the most?: Ramen. I want my midnight Ramen fix. That is all.
Today the diet kicked in at full force. I awoke to the pleasing discovery that I had lost 1.4 kg (nearly 3 pounds)! It may just be water weight, but that was encouraging news. Encouraging, but not so motivational that it muted my obsessive longing for a pasta hoedown carb-fest, a desire which permeated my mind like blue ink into the fabric of your best white cotton shirt.
Not long into the day, I discovered that hungry as I might be, I was not too keen on eating veggies for breakfast. I love veggies, and often incorporate them into lazy weekend brunches, but today they did not hold a candle to the thought of a single spoon of cereal. I halfheartedly ate a bowl of cabbage soup, and washed the remnants of the anachronistic meal down with a small bucket of black coffee. It was clear that today wasn't going to be "#hashtag #lit".
I again managed to avoid snacking throughout the day, mostly because I felt like a Jurassic carnivore staked down in an endless field of turnips . For dinner, I ate a subdued bowl of the still-yummy cabbage soup (I was ravenous by now), and rounded it off with a bowl of stir-fried Brussels Sprouts.
At around 10:30pm I snapped out of a fugue state to find myself re-arranging the pantry's pasta shelf. If I had any doubts that I was a carboholic and a masochist, they have now been purged. Before I could commit a cardinal sin, I discovered a multi-pack of dried seaweed snacks, and proceeded to munch them down, Homer Simpson style, whilst watching Instant Pot lasagne foodporn on YouTube.
Day 2 Verdict: I have far more pasta than I realised. I also like fruit a whole lot more than I realised, and know for dead certain that next veggie day I am going to have a varied supply of tasty salad ingredient on hand.
Our “Cabbage Soup with Teeth” recipe
Guten Appetit!
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