Hunger

Hunger 5/15/2013 Wednesday

Hunger

By Mark Alan Trimeloni

Continued on 5/15/2013

My name is John and I'm a food addict.

May 15th 2013

12:42pm

It's been two days and the diet is going pretty well. I've had overwhelming feelings of hunger, especially at night, yesterday. I managed to survive those spells, but in the end I ate a little more than 1200 calories. I had a cup of cereal that put me over by about 190 calories. Still not bad considering what I wanted to eat.

BTW, I weighed in this morning at 328 lbs. So losing one pound a day isn't so bad. I tend to lose more weight in the first week before things steady.

I had one bad episode where I desperately wanted a pizza. My favorite w/bacon, pepperoni, and extra cheese. I fought that down. Then my mind changed tactics and went for the weekend breakdown. Usually the thoughts of going for 1/2 price pizza on Saturday hits me in the beginning of the week. I guess my mind figures if the thought is planted early then it has all week to break me down. I forced any idea of breaking off the diet for any period of time in this first month out of my mind. I have to make it pass two weeks. I've never gone over two weeks on any diet in my entire life. The only way to deal with the two week jinx is to not allow any free days, victory days, free food, etc. Whatever my mind wants to call it.

I've been walking with my mom three times a week. I'll be walking today. On Monday, we made it 1 trip around a local park. We took the long way and didn't wimp out for the shorter route. I couldn't go beyond that because in the beginning of any diet my body becomes extremely unstable. I always feel like I have to go to the bathroom. So when i'm not close to a restroom, I am concerned there might be an accident. Luckily, I didn't have any. But I felt one coming on several times. I also get cramps. All this lovely stuff happens when I don't have food to numb my emotions. Lucky me.