All was well on day 14. Pretty standard day I would say. The oatmeal went down just fine. Stayed in just fine too. I'm already starting to make a list of the food that I'll be comsuming once I'm done with this whole ordeal.
I'm finding that I am able to eat on time as per my schedule during a weedkday when I work. I can never seem to stick to my schedule on the weekends. I feel it is very important that I continue my diet my adhering to my regimen, if I plan on keeping this up.
A few years back I had heard some information on a caloric restrictive diet and how it increased the lifespan of mice and other animals. I did some more reading on the subject just recently and I was very impressed with the results. I'll share what I read in a future entry.
Today my weight fluctuated between 154.6 (early morning) and 156.4 (evening) lbs. My guess is that my weight loss is starting to plateu. Just to avoid errors with the weighing scale, I purchased one that guaranteed weight indication within 0.2 lbs. I test the repeatability of the scale by weighing myself multiple times. So far the scale repeats the same weight flawlessly. I also read somewhere that body weight usually varies depending on the time of the day. I'll try to get more information on that if I can.
I'm almost halfway there and quite honestly, I want to get back to eating all the junk food that I had taken for granted.
Watch me spend only 50 cents per day for food in the month of February.
One upping random people on the internet.
I'll get right to it. I was greatly inspired by Evan's Hungry For a Month blog. Just to recap his journey, Evan restricted his food budget to $30 for the month of November, averaging out to a dollar a day for food. He did not consume any free food that may have been available to him at his job which made it more of a challenge. He did not include items such as coffee, sugar, salt, pepper (the type of stuff easily jackable from your local fast food joint). I feel it was a great undertaking and it taught him a lesson or two. I'm going to one-up Evan.
My food budget for the month of February will be $15, averaging to out 50 cents a day. Being a caffeine-aholic I'm going to keep coffee in the mix just like Evan did. I'll also keep the salt, pepper and ketchup as items available for free (not that I eat much of those things anyways). Any free food available to me at my job is also off-limits. This may be a problem.
Working at a refinery, there is an exorbitant amount of free food. We have lunch meetings, product vendors bring free food, and there is almost always food left over from other people's lunch meetings. But I also feel that I have an edge in this whole issue. Being a Muslim, I am required to undergo fasting in the month of Ramadaan. lasting for about 30 days, these fasts require that I do not eat or drink anything from dawn to dusk. Ramadaan was in October 2006, and I feel I did pretty good. It was a challenge, but I managed.
I am going to show that a 50 cent a day diet is very much possible, and even comfortable. Evan wrote in his blog that he did not really plan out his meals nor do any prior research. That's where I will also do things differently. I've already started to evaluate what foods are most cost effective.
One-upping Evan is not my only motivation. This experiment will also be conducted to show that using a proper budget and planning, even low income people can live comfortably. I will try my best to provide as much information as I can. Lets see how this goes.
Note: Read the Days from the bottom of the page to the top.
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