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The Payment of Paleo

Day 2 of paleo diet hasn't been as successful. The cravings were easily subdued for one day, but now they're hitting me harder on my second day and my taste buds are growing less pleased with the repetitiveness of meat. I'm not very fond of meat. 

I accidentally cheated once yesterday with the buttermilk ranch (breaks dairy rule). Now I've broken another one, also by accident: I ate bread (breaks grain rule) when I ate a chicken sandwich my friend Dani gave up at lunch. 

Cheated twice both days yet still eager to cheat again.

Bright news though! I weighed myself on the scale and I dropped almost ten pounds: I'm back to 140 pounds! Mom says the best part of a diet is seeing the results, which makes you want to diet even more. 

Maybe this won't be as bad as I thought.

(Actually, it probably will be even worse, but hey, I know I'm helping Mom by playing a support role.)

On irrelevant notes, today's been a pretty good day at school. I go to school two places: my college and my high school, linked together by my early college high school. I have my early college school photos, which I got the actual ordered pictures for today, and I also received my high school photo order, which we will likely buy as well. This year seems to be my year of good photos; I am quite pleased. The photos are by no means perfect! There are a ton of flaws. Yet they are a major improvement compared to past years. 

I got to chill a wee bit with TheNightOcelot after school, but we barely talked. The minute I finished my business at the high school, my mom was calling me outside. She was very grumpy. She was not angry at me, but rather angry with the fact that she was probably going to be late for a meeting later (thankfully, she was not) because she still needed to go shopping beforehand. Mom has a bad habit of unleashing her boiling attitude onto people beneath her. She wasn't that bad though; she cooled off fairly quickly.

My stomach has been reacting to this diet a bit weird. Like, I can feel the food inside my stomach or something, as funky as that sounds. It fills me up in a strange way. It's not bothersome, but it is slightly unpleasant. Yesterday, my gut cramped quite a bit. I'm unsure if that is because of my girl thang (y'guys know) or if it was because of the all paleo, something my body is not used to. I'm more leaning towards it being because of the diet because it felt not as intense as a period cramp and it was in the center of my gut, not quite 100% in the ovaries.

I'm beginning to feel Mom's pain and suffering. But by me doing this, I know I'm doing a good thing for both my family and me. I'm a bit glad I, at least, have my family to motivate me because I never would diet for my own-self unless it came to the point of emergency. (That is not a good thang.)

So, how was your day? Why don't you comment below? :)