Not. -_- This is pretty much just the same stuff I've eaten every single day for the past year or so out of sheer lazydom, no exaggerations. Not enough people believe me when I say I honestly don't care about the taste/variety of what I eat (as opposed to the actual act of eating, which I've always found most satisfying in itself). I used to bother with the whole rice cooker thing with various stir-fried dishes, but I seriously can't remember the last time I've done that other than to cook for parents/siblings at home. (The half bag of 20-lb rice currently sitting in my kitchen was bought maybe as long as an entire year ago for all I know, srsly.) I've reduced to just boiling half a pot of water and throwing items of daily essential nutrition into it at intervals and simmering the entire thing for under 10 minutes - everyday. That is seriously what all this is. On the off-chance that someone actually wants more details than that, here's a list of stuff I dunk in that pot, in order:1. Water, brought to a boil.
2. Two kinds of pasta: (usually thin) spaghetti and bowties/elbows or some other non-filamentous type. Reduce flame.
3. Meat, if any. (I'm pretty sure I mentioned this somewhere or other earlier: I don't try to be a vegetarian on purpose, but I simply don't fancy meat very much. I don't hate it either, but if any part of my diet has to be cut out, I'd gladly choose meat. It's the most non-consequential for me.) For the past 5-ish months it's been pretty consistently 6 thin slices of skinless kielbasa.
4. Add condiments. Nothing fancy, just a tiny bit of salt/pepper, and a generous dash of Sriracha. I'm too cheap to buy nicer sources of spicy. =/
5. EGG. Regardless of what I actually cook, noodle soup or not, this is something I absolutely must have, and my fridge is NEVER out of eggs. Usually I break the yolk up just a little so it cooks a lot faster - see yellow blob near the two slices of kielbasa.
6. Non-leafy veggies. Highly dependent on what's on sale at Kroghetto. This can be broccoli/cauliflower/asparagus (preferred), sometimes with tomato to boot (like today). If Campbell's or Progresso soups were on sale, sometimes I'd add a tablespoon or two of that to give a slightly alternative taste. Not for today.
7. Leafy veggies. Since I'm a cheapo and haven't bothered to go to a Chink store in ages, this is usually 1/3 of a romaine lettuce in one of those bags that comes with three. This is added at the very end, and flame is turned off as I'm adding. Overcooked lettuce is bleh.
As I eat nowadays, the above amount fills three of my flowery bowls. Two are breakfast, and the last is saved for lunch. Dinner is usually a banana or two. Back in January, though... not only did I make larger portions (so it comes out to more like 4 bowls), I ate an entire pot for a single meal, 2-3 times a day. This was my appetite throughout Stuy and the subsequent years after quitting track. This was more than what Jarek (6' 5", 230+ lb) could eat. I didn't think of it as a problem for the longest time and just kind of wondered why my clothes kept getting smaller since college. >__>But yeah. I hope this is enough to illustrate that maybe dropping a pound a day from simply eating normally perhaps isn't all THAT surprising. Anyway, today:
weight - 139.4 (morning)
armpits - 34 1/4
boobs - 35 3/4
under boobs - 30 1/4
waist - 28
flab - 33
hips - 36 3/4
calves - 14 1/2, 14 5/8
Whee, broke 140. As expected, I began to plateau. 1) I'm not as strict about dinner around half the time, so on those days, weight stays the same. 2) Even on 'good' days when I'd used to lose an entire pound before, now it's more likely a 0.8 lb drop. I think that initial 130-135 goal range I gave myself was quite accurate, in that case. I'll stop either when I break 130 or when I completely plateau, whichever happens first.
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