Mostly Semantics

Well, CV and Vermonstrous and I, we grab some Nam Viet for dinner. And just as happened like eight months ago, when it’s the three of us we can’t get fucking served. We waited and waited and waited. The thing is, I think we’ve all been in the interim and had no problems - it’s just the combination of the three of us, they refuse to serve us. Awesome. Dinner took like an hour, and jesus fucking christ, we ordered a single order of spring rolls and pho, pho, pho. It’s soup, people. Spoon it out and bring it to us. Sheesh.
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MBG’s week in health review, tripartite form:
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So, I was really good through beach week. I mean, really good. I didn’t eat meat, I didn’t eat carbs, I just ate fruits and vegetables. Ok, I had a nibble or two of gouda. But I didn’t even drink beer, mostly just liquor. Oh, and I went on a number of long walks and even did some of the working out things that the trainer showed me last week. I knew I had to be good because I was flying back to kansas city yesterday and the weekend in kc/lawrence would be full of temptation.
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Maybe some of you are interested to hear how the ‘cooldown’ period following the fast is going? In short, very well. The OJ was kind of tough for two days - just trying to get down as many glasses as he demands. Really I went with like four a day and water inbetween and was fine. Yesterday was my first day of real food. My very first thing was a ripe, juicy peach. It was so good my knees shook. Fruit salad (apples, oranges, bananas, mango, grapes, strawberry, kiwi) was also a delight. I had salad for dinner last night, with just about the lightest dressing possible - red wine vinegar and fat-free greek yogurt with salt and pepper - also remarkably delicious! Today, though… today I made mulligatawny for my vegetable soup. It’s… it’s really, really fucking good. By substituting the coconut milk, we made it super-light and healthy, especially by also subbing out sugar for stevia. Anyway - food tastes goddamned delicious, is the point, and I’m honestly not cheating, like, at all. That said, I have nice bottles of gin and diet tonic waiting for shortly after dinner for me tonight, as a finish line celebration. Yay, booze!

Oh man, what a day. So many things, exciting things, to relate! Exciting and also marginally embarrassing. Let’s start there.
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