DIET UPDATE So, this thing is probably going to turn me into a coffee drinker again. Ideal Protein allows for very few indulgences. No bread or dairy. No booze, obviously. No fruit at all. I cant even eat cooked onions because the caramelization would throw off the process. But you can (judiciously) have coffee. I generally have an espresso at work in the morning just to prime the pump but for the most part I havent been a regular coffee imbiber for years - not since I spent my late teenage years in Katzs and Captain Quackenbushs downing cup after cup of tepid lowgrade java or barely acceptable cappucinos (this was a few years before the coffee renaissance of the mid-90s in Austin). A few years afterwards I dropped the habit (I was more concerned with having beer money in those days anyway). I mostly worked in the evenings or late nights and other than the occasional cup of leaded to get my through a shift (and later the odd Americano when I found myself meeting someone in a coffee type establishment) I never really gave java much thought for the last two decades or so. But with no beer, no cheese, no bacon, not even a goddamned handful of peanuts ...my list of indulgences is pretty thin. I dont even smoke. Not that its forbidden but cigarettes dont hold much appeal for me unless Im drinking so I havent had a single one since I started the diet. Just bought a pound of very good French roast at Central Market. I gotta say, it tastes pretty damn good. Hopefully by the time the nutritionists decide its horrible for you Ill be able to drink a pint of beer again. Oh, and I dont trust my bathroom scale implicitly but I seem to be around 228 lbs now. Its been a long damn time since that happened too.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 03:27:19 +0000
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