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Atkins, Day One Eggs, bacon,

Atkins, Day One
Eggs, bacon, and cheese for breakfast. I feel horrible. Not diet-horrible, as in hungry, but unhealthy, "What the hell is going on in my stomach?" horrible. Obviously, some of this is psychological. I have eaten breakfasts without carbohydrates before. But I don't think all of it is. After four hours, breakfast is still sitting in my stomach like a lead balloon, sullen and immobile. No wonder people lose weight on this diet; the mere idea of eating anything else is utterly revolting, especially if it is another meal like the one I had this morning.

I have decided to limit myself to two meals a day. I think I can face an omelette without toast around mid-morning, but frankly, I'm afraid of using up all my salad greens (3 cups, max) at lunch and having nothing for dinner but a big hunk of meat. If I limit myself to eating twice a day, I won't have to face the prospect of an enormous hunk of protein towering menacingly over an otherwise empty plate.

I'm still trying to figure out why people find it easier to go Atkins than veggie. Vegetarians have a large world of available foods; Atkins followers have -- meat-o-rama, three times a day. But then, as Grandmother is fond of saying, differences of opinion are what makes horse races and marriages.