Sunday, July 15, 2012

Slightly more vegetables: three weeks later

I'm giving up on the diet.  After three weeks I have gained two pounds and, by the look of my stomach, none of it is muscle.  This is, by far, the fastest I have gained weight in my adult life.  It took a year at the gym to gain 2.5 pounds, so it is indeed significant.

The correlation is by no means scientific, however; my weight gain may be caused exercising less, for example, but I haven't been exercising much less.

I suspect it's the food.  I'm guessing that fruit simply has a lot of calories.  By entertaining a diet high in fruits and vegetables, I convinced myself that snacking on fruits throughout the day was healthy.  It may be a healthy alternative to snacking on chips and chocolate, but it's not necessarily a healthy alternative to snacking on nothing.

I'm still keeping up eating more fruits and vegetables than before, but gone are the days like the following:
Breakfast: Greek yogurt with stevia, a handful of berries, topped with some grainy cereal
Lunch: A small strip of steak, a dollop of pork, broccoli, mushrooms, asparagus, brussel sprouts, and a small cheese bread
Snack: A bowl of berries, lychee, grapes, a banana, or a peach; occasionally carrots
Dinner: Spinach, mushrooms, a handfuls of berries, raisins, nuts, a little cheese, and some meat
So long pseudo-healthy lifestyle.  Welcome back apparently-healthier pizza-and-saussage extravaganza!

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