Day 15

There's not much to report today, but as this is just over the halfway point of my four-week RoboShake plan, I'll write about some general observations.

But first, today's numbers:

Day 15
Shake: Watermelon, apples, almond milk, baked potatoes, kidney beans, and olive oil
Shake Cost: $6.54
Body Weight: 160.6lb (-3.2lb total)

Even Energy

I am notorious for being disagreeable in the late afternoon period before dinner. When I'm eating normally, I do my best to manage it by eating snacks in the afternoon. Eating eight 250 calorie meals has almost totally gotten rid of this problem though. I feel ready for a break at the end of the day, but I don't feel cranky.

Weight Loss

As I suspected, my weight loss has more or less leveled off at 160 lbs. I'm eating 2,000 calories a day, which is just slightly under what I need to maintain my weight, so I suspect I'll lose a pound or two more by the end of this experiment, but not much more than that.

Easier than Veganism

My wife and I have, at various times, experimented with veganism. I find the proscriptive approach of veganism to be much more difficult than the prescriptive RoboShake method. With veganism, I'd always be really excited to try something that seemed like it really should be vegan, only to see that it had fractional amounts of milk solids or something. Having to read every ingredient in everything I bought really wore me down, so I'd default to just eating bread and peanut butter and other "easy" stuff, which probably left me in no better a place than with my normal diet. With RoboShake I just have a menu of shakes to choose from, so I find it to be much less mentally burdensome.