Day 20

20 Days down and we're in the home stretch! Yes, I still want that bean burrito, but I must say my cravings for "normal" food have subsided substantially. My brother eats dinner with us on most nights (since he lives just a few houses down the street) and I've been deliberately cooking him "tempting" stuff like steak, pasta, and enchiladas. More and more, I don't even think about what he's eating. My wife even says she'd be happy sticking with RoboShakes permanently. I'm not ready to go that far, but I'm glad this month hasn't been a total disaster!

Day 20
Shake: CantaloupeHoneydew, Peanut, Raisin, and Almond Milk
Shake Cost: $3.24
Body Weight: 158.4lb (-5.4lb total)

Improvising

Yesterday, for the first time, Sprouts didn't have all the ingredients I needed for our shakes. Maybe it's because I was shopping on a Sunday evening, or maybe it was due to seasonality, but there were no apricots or cantaloupes. (Actually, there were a few cantaloupes, but they were extremely overripe, and an unattended eight-year-old had taken it upon himself to mash his fingers into them.) I didn't have my alternative shake recipes with me (no, there's no app for that... yet) so I had to improvise. Instead of cantaloupe I bought honeydew, and instead of apricots I bought peaches and nectarines. My guess is that these substitutions won't make a huge difference nutritionally. However, it does make me concerned that a RoboShake diet might be difficult to pull off in the winter.

Frequent Meals

If there's one aspect of RoboShake that I'm 100% convinced about, it's that eating more frequently makes me feel better. Today my wife and I had to make an abrupt and disruptive schedule change, and she observed that I handled it much more calmly than I normally would have. That makes me incredibly happy! It would make this entire six weeks worth it if I became an easier person for my wife to deal with!

So we've decided to eat six smaller meals a day even after RoboShake has ended. Here's the plan:

8:00am Breakfast
10:00am Elevenses (of Tolkien fame, but apparently it's actually a real thing)
12:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Afternoon Breakfast (So-named because that's when I wake up from my afternoon nap. So it's like breakfast, but in the afternoon. Get it?)
4:00pm Tea (guess who's been watching Downton Abbey?)
6:30pm Dinner

I'm really excited to get to eat more frequently. You might not know it from judging from the contents of this blog, but I really do love eating!!!