The Unintentional Diet

Well, here I am... almost 6 months into 2011 and I'm down 21.2 pounds.  I'd hoped to be further along, but I got stuck around 17 lbs for a couple months and apparently, it just took a rather nasty stomach flu/food poisoning/prayer for a swift death to push me over the plateau.

I'm not recommending this method. I wouldn't recommend this to my worst enemy.  Well... maybe them, as long as they were going to live.

But, there it is -- even after rehydrating and gaining a couple pounds back when I was finally able to eat, I'm still down roughly 4 lbs since before I got sick this past Saturday. I know this is not a healthy way to lose weight and again, let me reiterate, I'm not recommending it, but I won't say I'm not happy to be off that dime I was stuck on for so long.

Strangely, I feel better than before I got sick. That's likely a product of a renewed psychological outlook based on the weight loss, but also I feel trimmer, more vibrant, as though in getting sick I had exorcised some kind of parasite that was weighing me down -- both literally and figuratively.

But likely, it was just some employee who didn't wash his hands before making my chicken tacos.

21 pounds down. Let's keep this going.