The Snickers Diet, Day 3

Forty-two minutes from now, I will have gone 72 hours consuming only Snickers and water. I am still alive and well and quite optimistic about the rest of the week.

So, how do I feel? Let me answer that with a story. About three weeks ago, I decided to actually make the food on my exercise program’s meal plan. Apple oatmeal bars with yogurt, Splenda, and protein powder. Lasagna with chicken breast and chopped spinach. Seasoned broccoli fried in olive oil. I had healthy snacks, tried to stay healthy at lunch, and had healthy dinner for 4 days while doing 1–2 hour daily workouts. How I feel now is somewhere between normal and the dull, incessant lethargy I was feeling after those 4 days.

Whatever effects I am feeling I attribute to a simple caloric deficit. My body doesn’t like being forced to lose weight and fights back by feeling crappy. The only slightly weird thing I’ve noticed is my vision wasn’t quite as focused today as usual; I had to concentrate a bit to keep it from blurring out. True, Snickers has no Vitamin A, but then again, it could just be due to general tiredness. My mental acuity has not declined as far as I can tell; if anything, I’ve been more productive this week than average.

The thing about Snickers is they are small, very calorie dense, and not all that immediately filling. I can eat an entire king size and still feel hungry until 15 minutes later when it finally kicks in. I spent a good portion of my day today in a state of mild but not distracting hunger. Right now I’m about to go to sleep hungry. Not starving hungry, just the hunger that would normally prompt me to wander my apartment on a quest for snacks.

Well, that 72nd hour is upon us. Tomorrow I have a doctor’s appointment and I don’t plan to mention the Snickers. We’ll see if the doctor will spot anything amiss.