Diet by distraction

[ghini]

So, as the semester progressed and responsibility waned, I started sleeping late. When I have five minutes to go from waking up to leaving for work, breakfast is an afterthought. As a result of this, I started consuming a lot of those pre-made Slim-Fast in a can things as a 10 second breakfast. Lunch would follow, either grabbed downtown or brought with me.

Somehow, I think my stomach shrunk a bit. It got used to having less food in it. I spent less time being hungry, and more time not thinking about getting food. This continued on into the evenings, when I would sometimes even forget dinner. For example, last night I heated up a bowl of bolognese sauce for dinner. I think it is still in my microwave.

The end result? I've lost about 10 pounds. Haven't noticed? Well, it's only about 2.5% of my body weight, so it's not a lot, realtively speaking. I just find it interesting that I've found out how to diet by forgetting about food. Odd.

Comments

[weetanya.livejournal.com]

the procrastination/slacker's diet. i like it!

[lische.livejournal.com]

kind of like flying by getting distracted and forgetting to hit the ground?

[lorigami.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[quandry.livejournal.com]

I've always found that being a busy person really helped a diet. Boredom just makes me shovel food into my face. It is my number one diet enemy.

[vudiddy.livejournal.com]

I've lost about 10 pounds...Well, it's only about 2.5% of my body weight

hmm, some quick math in my head... you don't weigh 400 pounds!

[eneref.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he meant 4%...

[uglor.livejournal.com]

Had math final yesterday. Used up all my math skills. No more numbers until January.

[reznite.livejournal.com]

Hehe, welcome to the club! The forgetting food club, I'm president. Just don't get yourself into trouble, nearly fainting from not eating is not a nice feeling. Has the way you feel hungry changed at all? Mine did a while back, I don't get hungry like I once did. My body has stopped telling me to eat for some reason, but I get the negative side-effects when my body desperately needs food. Also my golden rule is, beer has food value, but not the other way around. ;)

[uglor.livejournal.com]

I had a friend from high school who used to forget to eat. she was the editor of the emory arts paper in college. Ever weekend, as deadline approached, she would forget to eat, get stressed and pass out. The campus EMTs got to know her routine so well they would call her early in the evening and remind her to eat so they didn't have to come by.

I don't think my body is getting the negative side effects yet, but then I've been on codeine all week and my body has been very confused.

[leezechka.livejournal.com]

I've been on that cough medicine before and I couldnt eat when i was on it, like all food was repulsive.

[quandry.livejournal.com]

Zinc cold lozenges do that to me. They make everything taste nasty.

[uglor.livejournal.com]

I'd blame this on the codeine, but it's been going on a lot longer than the week I've been taking it.

[tchotchkes.livejournal.com]

You are a lucky bastard. A talented lucky bastard.

[notgruntled.livejournal.com]

Your experience jibes with mine. I previously blogged that I lost 30-some pounds early in the year. The process has stalled recently.

I had a health scare several months back -- what happened was that I would forget to eat for about 12 hours at a time, and my blood sugar dropped. The weight loss is great, but remember to eat a little something every few hours.

Those slimfast/instant breakfast things are great. Even if you don't really feel like eating, you can chug one of those and go on with life.

Another handy snack to keep in a desk drawer are the 1-oz. bags of peanuts. I like the spicy ones. I keep meaning to pick up raw peanuts at the farmer's market and roast my own in my own mix of spices, but I haven't gotten around to it.

[saintb.livejournal.com]

HOORAY! congrats? yay!

but don't starve.