August 4, 2008 - So many bad choices to choose from

Day Seven - ??? lbs

Breakfast - Four of Sarah's Mom's homemade Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Delish)
Lunch - Some Fried Chicken Sandwichy type thing with Large Fries and Large Diet Coke
Dinner - Grilled Chicken, Green Beans, Baked Beans, Half a Slice of (overpriced, dry, tasteless) Olive Oil and Rosemary Bread, Salad Wedge with Cheesy Ranch Dressing, Carrots and Cucumbers, 8 oz of Diet Pepsi, many many ozs of Water

I spent much of the weekend thinking about what type of terrible awful crash diet I want to start out on. They seem to all seem to be pretty similar, lots of water, little to no carbs, exercise, etc. The point is to get your body into the ketosis stage where it is just trying to burn fat off for energy like crazy. A fun fact about ketosis is that it's a form of starvation* so if you do it too long you can do some not so good long term stuff to your body... but you may end up leaving a slightly slimmer corpse.

One big problem I've found so far is that most diets (and virtually every "fad" diet) are based on either mild starvation or mild to severe malnutrition. But I can't get too upset about people malnourishing themselves for two weeks because I don't think they'll do too much harm. The people I worry about are the hard core dieters who think that making a lifestyle choice to just do the first two week jump start over and over is a good idea. Just a quick hint about that one... IT'S NOT! And the hardcore parents who try to get their 110 lb daughters to lose weight - I'll get to you A-holes later.

So anyway I am researching now and I think by next Monday (Aug 11, 2008) I will start my two week malnutrition diet to jump start my metabolism and bring about glorious ketosis.




*I should aknowledge that there is still a good bit of controversy about this but most of the nay arguments I've seen either boil down to how mild a form of starvation it is or the definition of starvation.