196.5

People say I mostly eat healthy. I’ve never been very good at junk food.

Even though this is supposed to be a relatively simple game of calories in versus calories out, it’d be easier if I could manage a lot of that high-calorie stuff. In the long run though, I suppose it’s better I don’t.

The rice cooker is a great thing—at least for now, while I’m still in a rice-eating mood. In addition to other stuff I went through a two-pound bag of rice last week and then some, mostly in hand rolls. I’m hopin’ that’s part of why even though it isn’t much, my average daily weight’s risen for the first time in a month.

Every little bit helps, eh? Let’s turn this (interminable) slump around.

196.2

Hopin’ to turn around this downward trend—last week was another one of those meh weeks; I don’t think I managed to make it all the way through any of the meals I’d planned. Frf.

Bought a rice cooker, it came in the mail this weekend. Gave it a shot and it gave me much better results than I’d been getting trying to make it on my own lately. Made myself a bunch of sushi rice over the past couple of days. Stuff came out really well.

So: This week we’re going to be strong and accomplish everything we want to accomplish, right?

196.5

It’d be nice if my body made gaining easier. 

Lately, the whole bottom half of my stomach has just felt empty… small… overall, it just feels awful.  And yet I still don’t have any decent desire to eat. 

It’s not good for me to continue to be alone in this.

197.8

This is the point where I go up to the blackboard and write

I NEED TO EAT ON WEEKENDS

a hundred times. This week is not shaping up to be much better, I’m afraid, and for the same reason. Nevertheless, we don’t give up, we keep trying…