Don't feel much like talking

I'm going to keep this short since I'm not much in the mood to do the blog thing. The 900 calorie a day thing was a misery. After 3 days I lost NOTHING and all I was doing was being hungry and definitely cranky. I gave up on it. Maybe I gave up too fast, but I didn't want to screw around with my metabolism and I didn't want to be downright evil anymore. I also noticed that Tuesday I got almost no work done, and at a seminar Tuesday night I almost passed out. So, end of that plan, because I'm too wimpy to make it work.

I'll talk later about the seminar because I learned a lot about the lapband procedure and about weight loss in general. 95% of people who lose even just 22 lbs with traditional diet and exercise methods won't keep it off. Can you imagine how bad the odds must be for people like me with a lot to lose? Scary. When I got to work yesterday I put in a request for our insurance to remove the exclusion for treatment of obesity from our medical plan. I pointed out another fact that I learned in the seminar....the surgery typically pays for itself in reduced medical costs in 2-3 years. For all I know, though, maybe I'd fail at that too. I'm really feeling like a failure these last couple of days. I think this low cal experiment added to that.

Anyway, I'll talk more about that and my upcoming petsitting "gig" and anything else that's going on. Maybe I'll feel better when Justin comes back. Lack of physical contact with another human being really affects me for some reason.