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Besides a few moments in the morning when I wanted to do horrible things to Tim Ferriss (and not in a good way), yesterday proved to not be as bad as I thought.  And I'm sure that next week will be better, since I'll have a better handle on the guidelines and much more time to prep meals in advance.

The concept of "30 grams of protein within 30 minutes of waking" is more difficult than I thought, as most of the protein drinks have artificial sweetener and milk in them.  I thought I had solved the problem by hard-boiling 3 dozen eggs for us to share, without realizing that eggs only have 4-6 grams of protein each.  I don't know about you, but I can't eat that many aborted chicken fetuses in one sitting.  I mean, only two fetii at a time, tops.

I had to do an emergency Costco run for pre-cooked chicken:

Giving up artificial sweetener is ROUGH.  I have a pack of gum that I've been working through yesterday and today - mainly because I just bought it and don't want to toss it.  Once I'm finished with it, I'm not buying any more.  Black coffee is a strange thing too, and black coffee without anything sweet feels like punishing myself for something I didn't do (unless this is punishment for being a fat ass).

Over the course of the day I had roughly 12 ounces of black beans, 10 ounces of chicken, 2 hard-boiled eggs, 3 cups of spinach (before cooking), 1 cup lentil soup, 2 tablespoons guacamole, 1/2 cup of salsa, and 1 tomato.  I drank two grande regular brew black coffees, and about 80 ounces of filtered water.

Did an hour of cardio on the elliptical and then went to my friend's yoga class in the evening for an hour.

Got chiro'd and cracked and popped - there's so much tension in my mid thoracic spine, it's been giving me headaches.

Still didn't sleep well.  Bah humbug.  But there's always tonight for sleep.

Oh, and of course...