Yesterday was Day Two of this awful and super challenging Cat Food Diet. I must admit, it hasn’t been very bad at all. In fact, I feel mentally strong, but I know the truth.
This is fool’s gold.
Since I have been down this obstacle course-filled road before, I know that it will get very difficult, if not flat out disheartening. Even still, I believe my mental resolve this time around will carry me through these very difficult days, weeks and months ahead. I have not cheated, nor have I even had the urge.
God is in this plan.
For breakfast, I had several pieces of turkey bacon which tastes like a rubber ducky dipped in wax and varnish. It took me literally an hour to finish the six slices in addition to the mildly enjoyable hard boiled egg. The dietitian told me that for my body weight, I need to eat 16-18 ounces of protein daily which is a major undertaking given the fact that the meat is often hard to chew and swallow.
It can only be cooked in water.
For lunch, I had tuna straight out the can with a squirt of mustard mixed in. Along with it: two dill pickles. I split my final 10 ounces of meat into two meals later. It was lean roast which was very tough and unappealing, but strangely fairly tolerable. One other thing I have learned from the ’01 and ’06 failures on this diet is this: never expect the food to taste good because even if it does normally, it won’t while on this Cat Food Diet.
At least not to me.
I also did my seven exercises while listening to Prince’s classic 1984 album Purple Rain and drank yet another ocean’s supply of water. I urinated about 22 times which I guess is good exercise (having to constantly get up and go). Today will be great for me because like I said, it’s in God’s hands.
I’ll keep everyone posted.
