Asymmetrical Information

From the desk of Jane Galt:

So correspondants have requested that

So correspondants have requested that if I am going to try Atkins, I start things off by posting a daily caloric guide before I start, to provide a baseline. Those of you who feel that they already know too much about my life can just skip this post. For the rest, here goes:

Wednesday, August 28:
Container Dannon Light 'n Fit Blackberry Yogurt (110 calories)

Salad with mixed greens, hard boiled egg, grilled asparagus, portabello mushroom, and a splash of fat-free vinaigrette. (400 calories? More?)
Corn muffin (400 calories?)
Banana (100 calories)

Snack: several handfuls of revolting "Land O' Lakes Butter-Flavored Pretzels", approximately 150 calories. It must be hormonal.

Vegetable/Tofu Teriyaki with white rice (500 calories, at a guess)
Oreo Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich (230 calories)
Excercise: 25 minutes of dog walking

Thursday, August 29:

One banana (ca. 100 calories)

One grilled vegetable wrap with lettuce and tomato (350 calories?)
Three french fries off coworkers plate (small, string kind)

One serving lentil rice (350 calories)
Salad (50 calories?)
Slice of bread and butter (150 calories?)
Container raspberries (150 calories)
Taste of pound cake I am baking for friend
Excercise: Twenty minutes of dog walking; one hour assembly of Samsonite chair which came in a box blazoned with the legend "Assembles in Five Minutes or less!"

Today:
One everything bagel with enough salt to make Michael Moore pop like a road toad. Nothing on it. As far as I am concerned, cream cheese is just a vehicle for a good bagel.

One grilled veggie wrap with lettuce and tomato (the deli screwed up and accidentally gave me two yesterday. When you are marginally employed, there is nothing in the entire world better than free food.)

Dinner -- don't know. I'm one of those daring, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment people you read about in those novels with matte covers and titles done in thin, drab type.

Weight: I have no idea. If I wanted to know how much I weighed, I'd go to Madison Avenue and let the little stick girls at the couture boutiques ask me if madam would like to see something in a felt muumuu. But I'm probably within spitting distance of 150, which for a woman who is 6'2 is well within the normal range, thank you very much.

Aside from the ice cream and the pretzels, those are pretty typical days for me. I didn't include the massive volumes of diet coke I consume, a hang over from going to high school in the eating disorder red zone, because the company has told me the soda has no calories, and I choose to believe them.

Now: how much weight do my correspondants think I'll lose on Atkins?

Posted by Jane Galt at August 30, 2002 10:49 AM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links"); ?>