Battles With Boredom

apt-get install coffee

peter@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install coffee
[sudo] password for peter:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  coffee caffeine caffeine-bin-common caffeine-common
  coffee-common libgcoffee2-4
Suggested packages:
  aspartame cinnamon-powder cocoa-powder espresso
  half-and-half milk nutmeg-powder saccharine skim-milk
  stevia sucralose sugar vanilla-powder
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  coffee caffeine caffeine-bin-common caffeine-common
  coffee-common libgcoffee2-4
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 30.7 MB/31.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 107 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y


I Try to Get Out, But They Keep Pulling Me Back In!

While my weight doesn’t appear to have moved outside the range that it was in while I was actively on the Slow Carb Diet. However, I seem to have less energy these last several days that I’ve been eating more freely, so I’m considering doing it again.

Wonderful. I’m feeling about as flip-floppy as a politician during election season.

Slow Carb Diet – Round Two

After some consideration, and a week off, I’ve decided to try the Slow Carb Diet once again. Attending a couple of parties this weekend gave me inspiration on highly caloric foods that I may be able to binge on without making myself sick. My week off appears to have had next to no effect, ill or otherwise, on my weight, fat, or BMI, which is simultaneously heartening and disheartening.

Slow Carb Diet – Throwing In the Towel

After three weeks of my attempts at the Slow Carb Diet, I’m bagging it and throwing in the towel, or the napkin, as the case may be. Given that I have made no noticeable progress, I think I’m going to move on to just changing my exercise routine for a while instead.

I think there were a couple of reasons it did not work for me. First, I am already pretty close to my ideal body weight, even though I think my body fat percentage is still too high. Second, while the regular diet during the week was not hard, and was actually kind of fun, I had trouble with the weekly binge day. After years of training myself not to eat too much, that part was just too difficult to stomach (no pun intended). So other than pounding a pint of maple syrup every Saturday, I think wouldn’t be able to get my calorie intake where it was supposed to be.

If you have a lot of weight to lose, I recommend giving it a shot, and would be curious to hear if it works for you.

Slow Carb Diet – Week 3 (For Real This Time)

I totally got my weeks mixed up. Here’s a quick snapshot of my “progress” on the Slow Carb diet. Unfortunately, the results are not nearly as impressive as I’d hoped. In fact, given the numbers, there’s really no progress to speak of! My upper body definitely feels tighter, so that’s good, but I was hoping to see my body fat % and BMI drop at least a little by now. Adding the kettlebell swing every other day (I’m up to 40 reps now, after starting at 20) is also causing some development. I’ll have to sit down with a tape and measure myself again to see if there’s any noticeable changes there. If, after a couple more weeks of slow carbing and kettlebelling, I don’t see a change, I will probably move on to something else.