So yesterday i picked up some little notebooks i can keep in my pocket for "diet journals". Now, diet journals (in my opinion) are useful in two major ways. Ostensibly they reveal what one is eating, such that it can be faced and potentially corrected. But they also tend to cause one not to eat the stuff one knows he shouldn't, as he'll subsequently have to write it in. I'd reckon that's the Observation Effect respecting dieting. Problem with that (if there is one) is that you don't get an accurate picture of what the maintenance (or gaining, as the case may be) diet looks like.
On the other hand, if it works, and you really are able to clean the garbage out of the diet just by focusing attention on it, then who cares if you're a li'l fuzzy about where you started?
As i understand it (and this seems pretty reasonable to me) a brutha's gotta cut about 300 calories/day outta the diet in order to lose weight. Now, i know that's not strictly speaking true. Sorta like if you continuously add 1 N net force to an object, you'll eventually approximate light speed, in an analogous fashion you'd lose weight by snipping out a net calorie or so consistently. But in a practical sense, cutting a net 300 ca/day would work.
My diet is generally pretty rock solid. That is to say, with very rare exceptions, i eat basically the same thing every day. And that's the cruxy bit to me: breakfast and lunch--even with some snacks--are extremely consistent, and i don't imagine i have a lot of room to tweak that without spending all day hungry and miserable.
So really supper, i believe, is where it's at. It's certainly where i fail when i fail; but it's also the most variable meal of my day, and the place where i could feasibly cut 300 cals without wanting to punch someone.
But first i need to calculate my typical foods-especially supper. I'll try to get some numbers up tomorrow. But today seemed like a pretty good day.
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