The Battle of Weights

It is very true that American portions are much bigger then Asia portions, for example take the American chain restaurant Burger King. If in Taiwan you order a Whopper, it only packs about ¾’s the whop compare to the American Whopper, and the BK Big Fish…not so big over here. Also in Asia there is a lot more emphasis on eating vegetables while in U.S. I can’t really think of a vegetable dish outside of salads…potatoes don’t count. Therefore you can see why Americans are easily more overweight on an average compare to Asia.

All my life it seems I have had a battle to maintain in ideal weight…well from ages 0-6 I think I was considered skinny, then I moved to U.S. and my skinny phase was over. I didn’t get back on the right track until around middle school when I was playing basketball and running a lot. College was really bad but after college I worked out obsessively and got my weight down until about 5 years ago when I came to Portland and started my job at Pixelworks. The new job required a lot of traveling and it is very hard to keep up a habit when you constantly have to adapt to travel situation and places. Since then I have to say I have put on weight and need to take off more then just a couple pounds.

So Annie has been pushing me to try this 3 day diet. Today was my first day and it has been….weird. Here is the menu for today

Breakfast –
1. 1 Toast with peanut butter
2. Half a grapefruit
3. 1 cup black coffee
Lunch –
1. 1 toast with tuna
2. 1 cup black coffee
Dinner –
1. 3 ounces of meat
2. 1 apple
3. 1 cup green beans
4. 1 cup grapes
5. 1 cup black coffee

If I happen to get hungry during the day I can drink as much black coffee or green tea as I want.

So this is my diet for the next 3 days. I have made it through the first day so far and feeling bit strange. When I get hungry I drink black coffee which suppresses the feeling and now I am totally high on caffeine mixed in with intermitten hunger and suger low. So we will see how this diet goes by end of Wednesday, I have a feeling the effectiveness will be minimal. I just hope that someday someone really brilliant will be able to make a real diet pill in which will allow you to lose weight however still eat everything and anything you want.