Power Diet Update: some obstacles

Three days spent on this abs diet. So far...no abs. But it is early. Also I've hit some obstacles:

Obstacle 1: Bought plenty of ingredients, including tracking down ground flaxseed, and celebrated by eating leftover pizza.

Okay, well, I already had leftover pizza, and I paid for it, so I had to eat it. I mean...it's not going to last until I have shredded abs, so I pretty much had to eat it before "starting" the diet.

Obstacle 2: Free thought association does not reflect reality

I was going to get some soup at the local cafe for dinner on Monday (today). But then my housemates and I started to talk about how wonderful pho is. (I don't know how to have my keyboard make the correct letter there, but there's supposed to be, you know, like a little tail on the "o" there.) Anyway, I thought soup = good, and pho = soup, so let's go get some pho! But unfortunately...btw..there's way lots of sodium in pho.

Obstacle 3: Food preparation skills...sub-par





I made some really awesome meatballs! But I didn't cut the onions very fine, so the whopping chunks of onion split up the meatballs, and the meatballs kind of unravled/broke down in the pot, so instead of tiny neat little meatballs (the likes of which you see at Ikea - pictured to the admirable left), it kind of created something like a meat conglomerate (sort of like Meatwad - pictured to the deplorable right). Except while Meatwad is funny and insightful, what I created was more like soup. Oh well. Soup = good!

Obstacle 4: No real desire to eat vegetables

There are sections of the crazy power diet when it says "eat raw vegetables! As much as you want!" This is so you can find out firsthand that, while on the diet, you are not really hungry, you are just hungry for good food. Sure, you can make vegetables taste good. But I cannot. Perhaps that will be my mission before the next update.