Time for the second-day summary. I didn’t wake up very early and I spent a fair amount of time on my smartphone.
The day started well, though: a green smoothie and tea. I used the same base ingredients as day one — spinach, cucumber, orange, and water — but added a banana. That changed the flavor; it tasted more like apple than watermelon.
The photo I took turned out awful, even after editing. It’s hard to capture good images in this dim light; it never really gets bright here. The constant gray can feel depressing.
Still, someone with a poetic eye might find beauty in those many shades of gray.
Aaaaauuuu! I feel a bit like a she-wolf looking at these pictures. When I took them it was actually daytime. That small bright dot in the sky wasn’t the moon — it was the sun.
After that quiet, gray morning I craved something sweet and chocolatey, so I tried the gluten-free cottage cheese bean brownies I’d baked the day before. They were okay for someone hungry on a diet, but honestly they weren’t great. I ate one with tea to satisfy the craving and froze the rest for emergency snacking.
Three hours later I was hungry again. That’s the downside of eating small portions all day: constant hunger and frequent trips to the fridge. On the plus side, those trips mean more movement, and I do feel lighter and no longer get stomach pain. Still, six small meals a day is an annoying habit. I’ll give it a chance.
I decided to try millet pizza bites for lunch and they were surprisingly good. I paired them with a salad — avocado and cucumber, and of course peppers, olives, and arugula. The bites also had a hidden surprise: cheese. Pizza without cheese is just wrong, so I tucked a bit of gorgonzola inside each bite. I pretended to be surprised by the melted cheese, though I already knew it was there.
That was lunch. Later I ate another piece of the cottage cheese brownie as a snack, and dinner mirrored lunch.
By evening I had finished my five portions and stopped eating around 7 pm. I did a workout afterward — one of Diane Berry’s videos, Clubland Work it Out — which was exhausting in a good way. Then I watched five episodes of The Mindy Project back-to-back. I love that show. After How I Met Your Mother ended, I struggled to find another series to binge until I discovered Mindy; it brought back some much-needed lightness and laughter.