Day-6: Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays

  Office Space 1999


Peter Gibbons: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, "Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?"
Lawrence: No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.



Thank you Lawrence

I'm writing this post while I sit in Belle Tire, waiting on couple of new corners for the Vibe (we had a blowout last night).

The thing about the liquid diet is that I almost never feel full and when I you do, it does not last. I'm not nutritionist, dietician, trainer and my involvement in the medical community is purely as a patient / consumer.  I did little research as to the best way to go all liquid before taking part in this back in 2011 and no research this go around. So most of my tips, techniques and methods come from "learning by doing" and google.

Here is what I can tell you:
- At any given moment my body can start to feel like it has a "Case of the Mondays"
- It is important to stay up on the calorie intake
- Frequent intake is important
- Liquids fly through my system and 220 liquid calories do not keep me going nearly as much as a granola bar, or something similar would. Though this may be because calories keep hitting an empty stomach
- If I go more than 2.5 hours without calories, other than when sleeping, I start to feel drunk, and not in a good way. Seriously, I'll be sitting there and suddenly realize that my brain is not processing as it should and my motor skills feel off
- It takes about 10 minutes after caloric consumption to start to feel better
- When waking up in the morning I have about 15-minues before the "crash" starts
- Alcohol goes strait to the brain, which is both good and bad. The good is that I'm a cheap date. The bad is that I enjoy beer, tasting, drinking, sampling, but I'm a fast drinking, regardless of the of what I'm drinking and my tolerance is now about a 1.5 beers before my world starts to shift
- Protein is HUGE - the more you can drink the better. Ignore fat content, most of the what I drink has little or no fat, so when I do purchase something I look at the protein content. That is energy, long lasting energy and not easily or cheaply located in a can
- Variety is important. Not just for nutritional purposes, V8, fruit juice, meal shakes, beer, milk shakes, soda, coffee, water, it all serves a purpose, all provides a nutritional benefit, but variety is also necessary for sanity. If you think about it, at most meals you get a different flavors, textures, smells and I get tomato, or chocolate, or strawberry banana, or chicken broth, all with no crunch, it gets old. Trying to change it up is so very important.  
- Just because it sounds good combined, does not mean that it will be once everything is blended together (hummus, french onion soup broth, and spicy SW veggie dip - BLAH - I can still taste that disaster)

I'm sure I'll expand on the list at other entries but this should give you a good handle on what I have going on.

Not much on J.C. so far today and I'm still mulling on yesterday's service.

Started the day at 204 lbs.