Strange happenings

Well miracles happen.  This morning I went to chug down my shake and for some reason it suddenly tasted wonderful.  I mean I've done a 180. Yesterday I barely tolerated them without gagging, and today they're amazing. Also, I managed to not cook the turkey burger until it resembled a tan hockey puck rather than glorious meat. To top everything off, I stir fried my broccoli and it tasted much, much better.

I was much less hungry between lunch and dinner than I was yesterday.  I'm thinking that is a good sign. For the first time in two whole days I feel like I might be able to handle this. I'm not allowed to weight myself, so I don't know how my body is balancing out.  My goal is to lose between 0.5% and 1.0% of body fat a week.  To be honest, I could care less what I weigh so long as I'm losing fat and gaining muscle.

In other news, I've had my cat, Bear, on a diet of actual portion sizes of her food, and she has lost enough weight to actually clean herself. Does she do this new found activity in private?  No. And speaking of privates, she is currently cleaning hers two feet away from me.

A word on Abercrombie's CEO explaining that he didn't want fat women to shop at his store because they weren't cool...that is NOT cool. I've been in an Abercrombie store, anorexic-thin women and pseudo-hipster men. Meh, I've never like their clothes anyway.

More words -- exercise (okay I get that "exercise" is one word). Rich told me that I shouldn't exercise this first week I'm on the protocol (what the WIO people call the diet) because my body is switching from using glucose for energy to glucagon. I'm hoping the same thing happens with exercise that happened with the shakes and veggies. I absolutely loathe exercise.  I've never enjoyed it.  I don't get the endorphin rush, and I actually don't feel better for going to the gym. To be honest, I think most people don't love the gym, but they say they do because it's expected.

Anyway, I've got one more shake to drink before I go to bed, and when I wake up it will be FRIDAY!