30 Day Chef Boyardee Weight Loss Diet: Day 26

January 27, 2009 by Trevor Watkinson · No Comments »»

This was one of the easiest days of my 30 Day Chef Boyardee Weight Loss Diet to get through without watching the second hand on the clock go through its slow rotation.

At least seven hours of my day were taken up by working, so I had a lot less time to focus solely on my hunger and my thoughts about finally finishing this diet. My experiences with different periods of intense mental activity and opposing times of severe boredom during this food trial have given me a lot of insight into just how many people must fall victim to eating because there is nothing else to do.

Developing a habit of eating out of boredom suggests that you are a boring person. This habit fascinates me. How is it that we can sit around in a first world nation and come to the conclusion that despite all the comforts and myriad activities we have at our disposal, the only thing to do is eat?

Even pot-heads are not immune to this phenomenon. The only reason that people smoke pot in the first place is to kill time when they are bored. So people who smoke pot must be incredibly boring. Even though they smoke up to try and pass the time when they are bored and therefore have more fun, they end up raiding the cupboards too.

It would do our nations good to stop including stuffing our collective faces in the list of cures for boredom. There are so many other things you could be doing right now rather than eating another donut or cookie. Why is it that so many people are addicts to the worst drug of all? What is in our processed and refined food that has so many people today eating themselves into morbid obesity?

I will admit that seasonal conditions like sub-zero temperatures can keep us captive in our houses a lot of the time, but that does not excuse raiding the cupboards rather than doing something constructive with your time. We all tend to look down on drug users, smokers and alcoholics today, but we tend to feel only pity for those who are addicted to food.

When we allow extremely obese people to have two seats on an airplane when they only paid for one seat, that’s pity. So why is it okay to pity the overweight and food addicted, but admonish the alcoholic that goes back to the cupboard for another swig from the bottle?

You can argue all you want that you do not have an addiction to processed food, but your waistline will tell the real story. There are a lot of smart people working for a lot of big food companies today whose sole purpose is to get you to buy more food and eat more food. If your waistline is expanding, then you are eating the marketing around you hook, line and sinker.

It is time to stop pitying the people in our society who get taken in by over-the-top marketing schemes and lose control over their eating habits. We need to wake these people up and deliver the news they need to hear in a shocking fashion in order to help them change. You cannot help a fat person by sympathizing with them and feeding their addiction. Ask anybody who has had to be extracted from their bed with a crane. Oh wait, that’s right. You can not ask them because they tend to die.

Any rational person, once having seen how they get subtly lured into going back to fast food joints on a regular basis or feeling the need to eat entire bags of cookies will be angry to have been manipulated. In the world of dieting (and in the world of life for that matter), the words “I can’t” actually mean “I won’t” or “I don’t want to.”

If there are no excuses for being a drunk or a junkie, then there are no excuses for being fat. You are the cause of your problem and you are the only one who can solve the problem you created. You can defeat the eating due to boredom habit by setting some new ground rules for yourself and coming up with a good list of replacement activities. The things that tend to keep your mind occupied best are ones that require a great degree of concentration.

Experiment with some new hobbies. Take a walk and really try to see nature for a change. Listen for the birds in the trees and pay attention to the sound of the wind. Kids are never bored for long because they have not yet forgotten how to appreciate the smallest things in life that we learn to take for granted as adults.

It is your responsibility to walk away from the fridge and cupboards. It is your responsibility to prove that you have more brain-power, determination and resolve than the last cupcake calling to you from your kitchen counter. There would be a great epitaph on a tombstone: “Here lies Mr. X, outsmarted by a twinkie.”

I find that my work is the best thing to take food off of my mind, so why not try starting there? Are you the best you can possibly be at your current job? If not, then find a course of study that will help you improve. Find out what really interests you about your vocation and dive into learning all you can. Filling up your time in this way will pay off later in many different areas.

Your mind will get regular exercise and you will feel sharper and more alert. Your body-image will improve as the pounds start to drop from your frame. Your clothes will suddenly fit way better than ever before. And that cupcake calling you from your kitchen will eventually not be able to scream loud enough for you to hear.

Here are my current stats:

Weight and Body Fat

My weight dropped again today as I predicted. I weighed in at 148.6 lbs today, my lightest weight so far during this 30 Day Chef Boyardee Weight Loss Diet. I have now officially lost 12.6 lbs in 25 days. This means that I am keeping even with the loss of 0.5 lbs per day just like I thought I would.

My body fat percentage reading from my Salter body fat scale showed 19.7% today, which is now down 3.3% from when I started this diet. You will see that my actual body fat percentage is much lower than 19.7% when I post a picture at the end of this diet, but this is the reading my scale gives me. Regardless of whether or not the actual number is correct, the 3.3% drop still stands, because I used 23.0% as my starting point.

I am feeling like tomorrow will be a lighter day for me again. With four days to go now and 0.5 lbs lost per day, I may just surpass the 147.0 lb mark. I will be very glad to have my free day when I am done and will not be worried at all about gaining a few pounds back.

What Chef Boyardee Products I Ate Today

Today, I simplified my food choices by choosing to eat two cans of Chef Boyardee Big Super Beefaroni. My total calorie intake for today was 800 calories even.

I was fortunate to have been able to eat my supper a little later than usual due to not arriving home from work until about 6:30 p.m. today. I did not actually eat supper until 7:00 p.m. and that has made it relatively easy to get through this part of the evening.

I only felt weak at one point during the daytime. I think it was around 2:00 p.m. that I was looking at the clock and feeling sorry for myself. I can not express how difficult it is to make it through these last few days. Time could not be going any slower.

Summary

There are only 96 hours left in this diet once the clock strikes midnight. Oddly enough, 96 hours is the longest time that I have ever gone with absolutely no food. I did this as a test one time just for fun. The first food I ate after that diet was some of the best I ever tasted.

I expect the same to be true of my free day food on February 1, 2009. Twenty-seven days ago, I might never have believed that I would be willing to attempt this kind of diet, let alone make it this far. Now it looks like there is nothing standing in the way of a successful finish.

I wonder just how many people who manage to accomplish tremendously difficult tasks in their lifetimes end up looking back and wondering how they ever made it through. There must be many such people in this world. It would certainly explain why it is so difficult for the truly successful ones to give us the secret they used to get where they are. Perhaps the secret is only ours to know while we are in the midst of doing something great.

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