Daily tracking

20190522 Daily report

Every day, I have committed to writing down my food intake in my food journal.  This is for a simple reason: people who are thin and stay than constantly monitor their weight and regulate their food intake.  I have chosen to do this very explicitly.  Everything I eat is measured and written down in my food journal.  My limit is 1800 calories per day.  Sometimes I don’t know how many calories are in my food.  Usually I make my own food, and that makes it easy to calculate.  But today is Wednesday, and I buy my lunch on Wednesdays. 

Keeping myself happy on 1800 calories per day includes one of these

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 2 x BLT wraps (200)

  • 400 calories

Lunch – Big Greek Cafe $5 Gryos sandwich (600)

  • 600 calories 

Dinner – Reuben wrap (250); breaded chicken piece with cheese and lima beans (250)

  • 500 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (160); cherries (50)

  • 210 calories

Total for the day: 1710 calories (limit 1800)

Wednesday meditation

The gyros sandwich is from a local chain, The Big Greek Cafe.  The $5 Wednesday gyros is unbeatable!  Calorie information is not available though, so I have had to guess.  That is, about 200 for the bread, 200 for the meat, and 200 for the tzatziki sauce, tomatoes, and bit of Feta cheese on the side.  I also Googled calories in a gyros sandwich, and 600 was a good consensus number.  So far this kind of educated guessing has worked.  

A lot of people probably would be worried about my regime, where you are about 1000 calories in deficit every day; they worry they would get hungry.  I was worried about it when I started.  And reading the weight loss forums, you see people advising others that they will just have to get used to being hungry.  This is where the Doctor’s system shines. 

When the point of eating is a full stomach, anything less goes against your nature and against your eating goals, and is a constant source of deprivation and resentment.  You hate dieting and can’t wait for it to be over, and you are suffering and resentful all the time.  Your goal of eating is still to be full, and on a diet you are never, ever full, until you have a bad day and binge.  When you meet your eating goal (by overeating), you feel bad, you feel shame!  With that mindset, when dieting you will feel hungry all the time, because hungry means you are not full.  That’s a terrible situation to be in.  When even a successful diet ends, any sane person would flee back to their old life…and gain the weight back!  

No, dieting is too hard, and keeping the weight off is too hard.  You have to maintain that the rest of your life; losing 120 pounds might take a year or more.  Who would want to suffer for a year, and then suffer for the rest of their life?  Nobody.  Make it easier.  Change your thinking.  The goal is not to be full.  Full belly is a caveman’s goal, a monkey’s goal.  It is said that a dog will eat itself to death.  Don’t be a dog. 

Instead, change how you see the world.  The Doctor’s goal is to be hungry…just in time.  Eat just enough to last until the next meal.  When your goal is hunger, your definition of “hungry” changes, from “not completely full” to “ravenous.”  But the meal must be worth waiting for.  I always look forward to Wednesdays, because lunch is worth it!  

-The Doctor

20190521 Daily report

A lot of people who are losing weight are counting their calories.  There’s an acronym for it – CICO.  That’s Calories In Calories Out.  So the mechanics of losing weight are well known and freely available on places like Reddit /loseit.

The important question for us is: how to keep doing it?  For most of us, our unconscious goal when eating is to be full.  Eating less than that – trying not to be full – flies in the face of everything we want from food.  Counting and restricting calories are consequently very hard to do.  Essentially you have to force yourself using willpower.  You can only will that for so long.  I think a lot of people find that intimidating.  Much better to replace your food goal and alter your system of values.  Then it’s not a question of willpower – you are acting in accordance with your goal and not against it.  

I look forward to my homemade Reuben wraps

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 2 x Meatloaf wraps (250)

  • 500 calories

Lunch – Chocolate bar (220); Nestle Li’l Drums chocolate ice cream cone (120); Stroopwafel cookie (160)

  • 500 calories 

Dinner – 6 ounces cooked spaghetti (300); 5 meatballs (235)

  • 535 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (160)

  • 160 calories

Total for the day: 1695 calories (limit 1800 + 500 bonus from swimming, total 2300)

Self knowledge is the way

What is self knowledge?  In this dieting frame of reference, it is rich with meaning.  It can be which foods are the most satisfying to you.  It can be the knowledge that you will eat too much if you have a bad day. There are many parts to a person’s mind, many layers.  What is the part of you that overeats candy when your will has forbidden it?  Are you taken over by someone else?  Probably not, but it’s evidence that you can be of two minds about things. 

It’s important to think through this and learn as much about yourself as you can.  Learn how to get your two minds working together.  Learn your insecurities and triggers and be aware of when your parts are working together and when not!  Never, ever put yourself in the position where you are saying, I hate myself.  The next day after you have overeaten is a prime example.  Your two minds can’t work together if you say you hate that part of you.  That hated part is important and necessary and you must gain its cooperation.  It’s all part of you and you have to get the parts lined up and negotiate a way through to your new goals.  Then the different parts of your life come together and you will feel satisfied and full of meaning.  You will start to wonder why you would live any other way.  

-The Doctor

20190520 Daily report

The price of getting thin and staying thin isn’t steep, but it does take some time every day.  It is high priority time.  My food journal must be filled out right away after eating.  Keeping a daily food journal is one of the two parts to controlling your weight.  The other part is weighing yourself.  Thin people do both of these things, though not in the same ways.  Show me a thin person and I will show you someone who keeps track of their weight (they may use a tape measure or belt or judge by the way clothes fit).  I will show you someone who is careful about how much they eat.  People have different strategies for regulating how much they eat.  I count calories.  

Some bacon may have fallen on these wraps before I ate them.

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 2 x BLT wraps (200)

  • 400 calories

Lunch – 2 x Reuben wraps (250)

  • 500 calories 

Dinner – Meatloaf with potatoes and carrots

  • 500 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); 1.75 ounces Sarris peanut butter meltaway egg (280)

  • 360 calories

Total for the day: 1760 calories (limit 1800)

Can I keep losing weight this way?

Recently it’s been strange.  I am eating 1800 calories per day, but I must have gotten used to it.  Now it seems like a lot of food.  I had what seemed like three large meals today.  Am I going to lose weight when I feel like I am eating a lot?  Well, it’s worked so far.  But it is still strange the way perceptions change.  Don’t forget that part of this system of counting calories means no extras between meals.  It’s amazing what you can eat when not paying attention.  My Sarris peanut butter meltaway egg (one pound) has lasted a month since Easter and I have only eaten half, about an ounce at a time, a couple of times per week.  Before I started paying attention, that egg would have lasted two days, maybe.  I used to drink about a gallon of milk a week.  Paying attention is a challenge in so many ways! 

I was looking at Reddit /loseit again.  The people who have lost weight or are losing weight have lots of great advice.  But most of them sound like they are recommending willpower to get it done.  Other people are posting and complaining they can’t get motivated or stick with a diet.  That was The Doctor, not too long ago.  I’ll have to come up with some ways to talk about the transformation you can make, to become a person capable of losing weight and controlling weight.  

The most important part is to get rid of your old thinking and not be too stubborn!  One Reddit /loseit poster asked for advice when starting a diet.  Five different people answered him with great advice.  He rejected them on the grounds that he would get too hungry.  They didn’t know how to answer that – a couple suggested he would have to get used to being hungry.  He was hilariously stubborn – being hungry was for barbarians and could cause health problems!  Modern people shouldn’t get hungry. 

The Doctor didn’t feel the original poster would benefit from his insight that hunger depends on the food goal.  If your goal is to be full and satisfaction comes from being full, then hungry is any time you are not totally full.  Your idea of hunger is distorted by the eating goal.  On the other hand, if your goal is to be ravenously hungry – your stomach actually shouting for food – then your goal is met anytime you have eaten anything substantive.  Tie that to the idea that your food is worth getting hungry for, and you will become a self perpetuating weight loss machine.

-The Doctor  

20190519 Daily report

Some people are unhappy with the idea of keeping a food journal and weighing yourself for the rest of their life.  I see it on Reddit /loseit often.  Dieting, in their minds, is temporary.  After reaching the goal weight, people just want to believe things will work out.  It’s an attitude that says, “my body should maintain its weight all by itself.”  I think it’s a moral attitude.  But “should” doesn’t do the job.  Keeping your weight under control is one of those things that must be maintained, or else it is lost.  It’s like going to the dentist every year.  If teeth need care and attention, so does our weight.  Thin people absolutely pay attention to their weight and 99.9% of people who stay thin throughout their lives must keep working at it all the time.  We have to accept that this work takes time and attention.  You are no different.  You too can be thin and under control, but there is that price. 

Is it worth it?  The Doctor argues that the struggle to refine your goals and aims, and hold yourself to them, adds a lot of meaning to your life.   

Cabbage has about zero calories but makes part of a great sandwich

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 80 grams of Ukrainian Paska bread with butter (360)

  • 360 calories

Lunch – 5 x pizza slices (100); chicken wrap (180)

  • 680 calories 

Dinner – corned beef and cabbage, potatoes and carrots (500)

  • 500 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); 3 x Jaffa cakes (50)

  • 230 calories

Total for the day: 1770 calories (limit 1800)

Food security while dieting

The way the Doctor keeps himself happy, while eating less food and eating under a system of control, is to make the foods that are most satisfying and worthwhile.  My eating goal is to be hungry and to anticipate my next meal.  It’s no good to get ravenously hungry and run to the kitchen and realize there is nothing there I really want to eat.  I call this food security: I cook ahead of time and make sure there is food around that I am very interested in.  When I get hungry, I can find a food I really crave and put it together quickly.  If I had to eat something I was indifferent to, I wouldn’t be interested in making myself hungry for that.  

I’ve also talked about the problem of a meal not working out.  Pre cooked bacon was a good example – it’s not nearly as good and not nearly as satisfying.  Anyway, when I’ve gotten my hunger revved up and I eat and the meal is unexpectedly disappointing, it is demoralizing.  My body says, why did you get me all excited for????  My old values said – eat it anyway, don’t waste.  But my new values are supposed trump the old.  It is a struggle, but my ideal now is to throw away the disappointing bacon and eat something else.  

Someone asked how much advanced planning I do for my meals.  Unfortunately, it’s complicated and while some of it is planned (usually while shopping) some is opportunistic.  There is no hard and fast rule, except I have to really be looking forward to eating it.  I don’t mind eating less, since it will be so good.  Living this way really heightens my enjoyment in eating, and I lose weight at the same time.  That is nice.

-The Doctor

20190517 Daily report

My daily posts have a main purpose – to help me control my food intake.  I do this by keeping a food journal every day.  I enter what I eat, right after I eat it.  I don’t remember everything if I try to do it all late at night.  Another part of entering food into the journal is to pay attention how much I am eating.  If I only wrote in the journal at night, I might find out I had overeaten during the day.  (I am actually writing a post now about how to recover from a bad diet day.)  Then it’s too late! 

Don’t play the game of trying to force yourself to eat less tomorrow to make up for today, either.  That day is done and you can’t get it back.  Look towards the future and try again tomorrow.  Tomorrow, be aware of how much you are eating and enter it into your journal right away. 

100 calories per slice!

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – leftover sesame chicken (150); mini apple pie (210); 26 grams Sarris chocolate (140)

  • 500 calories

Lunch – 6 x pizza slices (100)

  • 600 calories 

Dinner – BLT wrap (200); Moroccan lamb ragout (350)

  • 550 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80)

  • 80 calories

Total for the day: 1730 calories (limit 1800 + 500 bonus from swimming, total 2300)

The limits of calorie cutting

It’s not too hard to  reduce your total calories to a certain point, but then it gets to be more and more work for less and less reward.   No matter what you do, it takes 3500 calories per week to lose a pound of weight.  After a while, there just aren’t many left to cut.  

As usual, this week I have been swimming twice.  Normally on those days I am extra hungry and feel free to reward that a bit.  This week I wasn’t really extra hungry so didn’t eat more – I stayed below 1800 calories per day all week.  Does this mean I will have lost an extra pound this week?  Ha, no.  My swim routine takes about 600 calories, so you could say I was down 1200 calories this week from my usual.  That’s only 1/3 pound!  I’m not sure I would even notice that on my scale.  Looked at another way, I have reduced my intake to 1800 calories per day.  If I tried to bring the total down to 1200 calories per day, I would probably be hungry all the time and would be down….a pound (600 x 7 days in the week = 4200) for the week.  One pound is not worth the price of being hungry all the time.  I don’t have that kind of willpower. 

Losing weight seems really slow.  But I am not going to complain about “only” losing 2-3 pounds per week.  That’s fantastic and will get me to my target weight.  Don’t get in the way of being fantastic.  

-The Doctor

 

20190516 Daily report

If you watch people who are thin, you will learn from them how they do it.  People who stay thin pay a lot of attention to their weight.  (Some will tell you that they don’t pay attention, but I think they are a bit embarrassed about it.  Who wants to admit they are obsessed with their weight?)  Compared to those of us who have lost control of our weight, thin people pay a lot of attention.  So, pay attention to your weight.  It is the price of keeping thin.  It’s like keeping your checkbook balanced.  Ignore it for a while and you will get in trouble.

 

This bread I did make, and bake, then take.

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 100 grams Ukrainian Paska bread and butter (450); banana (100)

  • 550 calories

Lunch – Moroccan lamb ragout with hard boiled egg and rice (450)

  • 450 calories 

Dinner – Homemade Sesame chicken (450); green beans with butter (50)

  • 500 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); 1.25 ounce of Sarris peanut butter meltaway egg (110)

  • 190 calories

Total for the day: 1690 calories

Anticipation

I have often said my food goal is to be hungry and anticipate the delicious food I have planned for the next meal.  That way I have an incentive to not eat between meals, and I find my body and mind are willing to eat less food at each meal.  It works, but there is a price.  Part of the price is that I find a lot of foods are not worth waiting for.  My mind and body are fine with getting hungry and then getting something delicious as a reward.  Nobody wants to get hungry and then be rewarded with salad (the ordinary kind), or some chips, or unappealing leftovers from last week.  Food can be fuel, but I am getting some extra work out of it.  

This week I have been concentrating on my food goal – I should be hungry for each meal!  Really hungry.  If you think about it, when most people say they are hungry they are saying they are not full.  Have you ever said, “I could eat something.”?  That’s proof that most of us have being full as our food goal.  Consider – the only time most of us would refuse food is if we are already completely full.  Our food goal has been met!  Otherwise, we could eat, and we do.  Result: calorie overload.  

If hunger is the goal, that is all turned upside down.  Such a hunger-focused person would refuse food unless they were empty and their stomach calling LOUDLY for food.  You might even recognize hunger in yourself as something to avoid.  But it works as a goal.  You don’t want to be hungry and unsatisfied between meals.  You want hunger at the right time.  The side benefit is that your food tastes really wonderful and exciting when you embrace hunger for it!  Make sure it is something worthwhile. 

-The Doctor  

20190515 Daily report

Welcome to my daily report!  It’s a new day in my new life.  And I have committed to keep a food journal for the rest of my new life.  Hear me out.  Everybody who stays thin has a system for keeping their weight under control.  Not everybody keeps a food log, there are other systems people use.  But I am keeping a food log.  The logic is simple.  I am trying to lose 120 pounds.  I am not going to go to all that trouble and gain it all back again.  I have transformed myself into a person who can control his weight.  I keep the food log.  And I will also weigh myself every week for the rest of my life.  These parts are essential for weight control. 

On the positive side, I will lose 120 pounds and be in control of my weight.  Also on the positive side, I can eat from an unlimited menu of exciting and delicious food.  I have lost 51 pounds so far eating like this.  

It's a cheesesteak, or as close as you can get outside Philadelphia

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 100 grams Ukrainian Paska bread and butter (450)

  • 450 calories

Lunch – steak and cheese sandwich (500)

  • 500 calories 

Dinner – Moroccan lamb ragout and rice (350)

  • 350 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); chicken wraps (250); pretzels (100)

  • 430 calories

Total for the day: 1730 calories (limit 1800)

Rediscovering my eating goal

Astute readers will notice that today was a Wednesday, but I didn’t get a gyro sandwich.  The Doctor was too far away from the Big Greek Cafe for that today.  So I got this cheesesteak from a lunch counter.  It’s pretty good!  I made sure I was hungry for it, so it was as good as possible.  

Food just tastes better when you are hungry for it.  That’s the knowledge that led me to my greatest insight – my food goal was all wrong for weight loss.  I was eating with the goal of feeling full.  But how can you lose weight if your enthusiastic goal is to be completely full?  By dieting (eating less), you are working against yourself.  You have to use a lot of willpower to keep from filling yourself at every moment.  It feels wrong, not being full!  So unsatisfying.

My new food goal is to be hungry in time for each meal.  Success is to eat just enough so that I am hungry for the next meal.  Today was a partial success.  I woke up hungry, had my delicious home baked bread for breakfast, then didn’t eat again until 12.30 when I was hungry.  But at 3PM, I got hungry and had some chicken.  And then some more.  With hummus.  I stayed in my calorie limits today, but dinner felt unsatisfying, because I wasn’t hungry for it.  I have to learn to treat hunger symptoms with something more filling, or at least something in a package of 100 calories or so, like beef jerky.  It’s so easy to overdo it and then ruin my appetite.  

I am accumulating so much self knowledge on this diet!  By the time I am done losing this weight, I will be an expert on my own eating needs and behaviors.  Keeping the weight off might be less of a challenge.  

-The Doctor

20190514 Daily report

There are two parts to controlling your weight – no, not diet and exercise!  I mean, of course, (1) monitoring your weight at least weekly, and (2) regulating your food intake.  This daily post represents #2 – an online food journal and an expression of my thoughts as I go through this quest to lose 120 pounds.  Part of regulating your intake is to keep a total and honest accounting of everything you eat. 

My own take on this was to change my thinking and my food goals.  Instead the typical food goal – eating until I was full – I have decided that my goal is to wait until I am hungry, then eat just enough of a food that I am really looking forward to.  It really raises the eating experience to a new level.  Your food gets really exciting when you are hungry for it. 

This stir-fried chicken is going to taste sooooo good!

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissantwich (400);

mid morning waffle pieces and ham (150)

  • 550 calories

Lunch – BLT wraps (400)

  • 400 calories 

Dinner – sesame chicken with broccoli and peppers (400); rice (160)

  • 560 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); 1 ounce of Sarris peanut butter meltaway egg (110)

  • 190 calories

Total for the day: 1700 calories (limit 1800 + 500 bonus from swimming, total 2300)

The importance of hunger when it is your goal

Today was a swimming day.  I was pleasantly surprised that my swim times were excellent.  I’m not sure why, but the pool was crowded today.  I shared a lane with an elderly but spry man wearing flippers, and he was pretty fast in them.  He had a cane up at the end of the lane, so I thought he was going to be slow.  Wrong!  But I didn’t do badly either.  Tuesday seems like a strange day for a crowded pool.  I can’t figure that one out.

I am rediscovering the importance of hunger as a goal, and food as a reward for hunger.  This last few weeks, I have noticed that I have started grazing around and eating between meals.  It’s all within the calorie limits, I think (it’s hard to keep track of grazing a few pretzels or chips, so I estimate).  But it means I am not really hungry for meals, and my mealtimes drift around a bit.  It’s all very unsatisfying.  Today, even though I was being more careful, I was hungry around 10AM and snacked.  Lunchtime (11.30) came and went, and I wasn’t hungry.  I was determined to wait, and around 12.30 I got hungry after all.  Then my BLT tasted great!  

After swimming, I was sure I would be hungry, but I wasn’t.  I finished my work and made dinner.  I only really got hungry just before eating at 5.30 – perfect.  I enjoyed my stir-fry a lot.  Later that evening, dessert started to sound good, so I rewarded myself with some peanut butter egg from Easter.    Just the right amount – one ounce.  I am sure I will be hungry for breakfast.   What will it be?  What will be worth waking up for?   

It is so important to keep your food goal in focus.  If your goal is to be hungry before you eat, you must make sure you are hungry before you eat.  That means not spoiling your hunger with shacks or appetizers.  That means eating just enough.  Those first few bites when you are seriously hungry are wonderful and soon you look forward to that experience.  It’s a much more fulfilling way to live.  Eating until you are full becomes boring, pale, unexciting, by comparison.  But if you are going to use hunger as your goal – and it has a lot of benefits for weight control – you must keep your hunger sharp!  

-The Doctor

20190513 Daily report

Every day, The Doctor keeps a food journal and calorie count.  It’s the only way to be sure that you are in control of how much you eat.  Who remembers what they wore last week?  What the weather was?  What you had for breakfast yesterday?  The act of measuring helps bring your intake under control.  The Doctor also weighs himself every week.  That keeps the food journal honest.  Once you have self knowledge, you learn how much you can eat in a week and still lose weight.  The proof your food intake is under control is the scale. 

Much better than pre-cooked bacon

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 4 x bacon strips (70); corn chips (200)

  • 480 calories

Lunch – Meatball and hummus wraps (250); pretzels (100)

  • 600 calories 

Dinner – spaghetti and meatballs (500); 

  • 500 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); Nestle Lil Drums chocolate cone (120)

  • 200 calories

Total for the day: 1780 calories (limit 1800)

It's all in your mind. Change your mind.

Dieting as a mental process is so challenging.  When your eating goal is to be full, every bite you don’t take is a deprivation.  You have to fight against your eating goal all the time.  (100% of the time, your mind is telling you, eat, I’m not full!).  With that eating goal, dieting is a punishment and a trial that never ends.  When people on a diet say they’re tired of being hungry, I think that’s what they mean.  They are tired of not being full.  Their brain and their being have accepted the goal – being full is the highest good!  The only source of satisfaction and happiness! 

The diet forums are full of people trying to stay strong, and I applaud them when they succeed.  But the Doctor started his system of weight control (not dieting) because it was important that the system was comprehensive.  There’s no way I was going to lose 120 pounds and have any chance of it coming back again.  I decided my mind had to change.  I had to let go of my old life and my old being, and reorder not just my goals but my values hierarchy.  On top now, was being a person who could successfully control his weight.  My old values got pushed down a few notches.  They are still there.  But they are not allowed to interfere with my new highest good, having my weight under control.  

That is one side.  But this is a complex problem.  Another challenge was to reformulate my eating goal.  I chose hunger as my goal.  I don’t mean what other people mean, when I say hunger.  As I said above, when your eating goal is to be full, anything less than that feels hungry, feels like deprivation.  When I say hungry, I mean the gripping hunger that comes from having an empty stomach and digestive tract.  

Food just tastes better when you are hungry for it and also looking forward to it.  I found I was not hungry between meals (using my narrow definition of hungry).  But I was hungry at mealtime.  

Today, I had trouble keeping my focus.  The old goal kept swimming into view.  I wasn’t hungry and still wanted to eat, to graze, to feel full and satisfied.  I didn’t give in (much), but it was distracting.  I decided I was missing something.  What was it?

It was a goal and a reward.  Every 10 pounds lost, I have rewarded myself and recognized the achievement.  That pulled me forward.  I haven’t done that this time!  And I am already approaching the next 10 pounds lost.  I had better pick a reward soon, so I can see my path clear.  Every bit helps!  

-The Doctor

20190512 Daily report

Hello.  As part of my (so far successful) system of weight control, I regulate my food intake.  I do that by keeping a food journal (a log of everything I eat) and I keep the system going by changing the way I was thinking about food.  I encourage myself and keep things interesting with a system of rewards.  And I find deeper meaning in my new life.  It is more satisfying, my food goals are more refined, and the feeling of control is a benefit and a motivator.  Part of the control is food portioning.  

A portion for lunch tomorrow

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – BLT wraps (400); pre cooked bacon pieces (100); waffle pieces (100)

  • 600 calories

Lunch – homemade chili and noodles (400)

  • 400 calories 

Dinner – Moroccan lamb ragout with rice (500)

  • 500 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); fresh berries (200)

  • 280 calories

Total for the day: 1780 calories (limit 1800)

Anticipation

Today was Mother’s day. For dinner I made a Moroccan lamb ragout.  But I got started a bit late and it wasn’t ready until after 6PM.  Starting at 5, I had a few berries left over from the breakfast extravaganza.  Then a few more and a few more.  I have no idea how many I actually ate (much less than a cup), but when dinner was finally ready I wasn’t really hungry any more.  I lost my hunger/anticipation!  And the Moroccan lamb is one of my favorite lamb meals.  So that was a little disappointing.  On the other hand, I did eat some lovely berries.  

The leftover lamb was packed away for lunches and another dinner.  Maybe next time, I won’t ruin my preparations for enjoying it!  

Back to bacon.  I’ve now tried three kinds of pre cooked bacon, and there’s only one thing to say: precooked bacon is not as good as freshly cooked.   It’s like an echo of real bacon, and only good enough as a substitute for a short time.  This summer, I’m going to switch to another breakfast food!  Shocking, I know.  There will still be a place for bacon, somewhere.  I hear there is a chocolate covered bacon.  

-The Doctor

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