Half way home! The experiment is roughly 50% complete now and I am already looking forward to dinner on February 2nd. I didn’t eat a lunch again today and although I felt a bit hungry it wasn’t painful hunger, but rather some light stomach growling. The daytime French diet emerges victorious once again.
For dinner I had a package of Ramen noodles, just the noodles, Carin had the broth, and we split a cup of rice, although I probably ate at least 3/4 of it. I’m guessing my total caloric input for the day, including coffee at work and household beverages, to be somewhere in the 1200-1300 range, which is well below the maximum daily allowance and in line with my making this whole thing more difficult ideology.
I feel comfortably full right now, which is certainly a nice medium between emaciation and obesity. Tomorrow brings with it another lunch-free day and more than likely some rice at dinner. I figure I will try this routine for a few days and see how my body responds to it. If I begin to lose a little weight, then that means I’m doing this correctly, because in actuality I should be starving at least a *little* bit.
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$30 for 30 days of food? That must be tough! In college I ate for $1-2 per day, but every week would have some fast food pasta, so my total was probably $80 for the month. I think I’d shrivel up for $30.
It’s tough but not as tough as one might suspect. There is just one important prerequisite: you must LOVE rice lol.I eat it everyday and with a 20-lb bag for $6 it is remarkably cheap.
I can understand your college pain but luckily I had a meal plan in college so I never had to undergo anything like $1-2 a day. But look on the bright side, at least you avoided the “freshman 15.”
You’re almost there…