Dan Nied's Fortress of Weight Loss: Day 12

What I ate today:
I don’t have calorie or fat counts. But my guess is not that many calories, and a little more fat than usual.

What I ate:
Breakfast

• 7 slices of turkey bacon (20 calories, no fat per slice!)
• 2 servings of Wheaties with skim milk

• 1 Salmon steak
• 2 slices of wheat bread with fat free mayo

• 1 Tuna steak

• 1 tub (4 servings at 80 calories each) of fat free cottage cheese.

Exercise: None. I stayed in and watched football all day.

Today was fish day! The salmon was better than the tuna. The tuna tasted like it was from a can. I don’t understand that. It was fresh from the Safeway, and we all know Safeway has the best seafood. The salmon was great, I’ll buy that again. Not the tuna. Still, I have no clue what the nutritional value of frozen fish is, which makes me a little nervous.

But it must not be that bad, because I lost four pounds during the day. I weighed in at 294.4 in the morning (same as Saturday) and then, after a late-night shower, weighed in again for fun and was down to 290 on the dot; a stunning loss for an exercise-free day.

Weight is based on a series of variables, you see. Sunday, it seems, everything lined up perfectly. I think I know what happened, and I think it has a lot to do with water weight. Now, I don’t particularly understand the idea of water weight, other than the idea that water has volume and it makes you weigh more when it is in your system. But I don’t really understand why drinking more water helps you get rid of water weight. (Yes, I know you pee more, but then, aren’t you just peeing out what you simply put into your body?)

I guess the idea is that water helps flush your system of anything you might have left over from before. Anyway, I know that I drank liquids pretty much from wake to sleep on Sunday. Coffee, diet Mountain Dew, water, green tea, more diet Mountain Dew, more water. It just went on. I probably pissed 13 times on Sunday. Meanwhile, everything I ate was high in protein and generally low in sodium (I am guessing), which means that all the water I was retaining by eating sodium-rich food such as condensed soup and canned spaghetti probably was flushed from my system.

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Dan Nied is a journalist, of sorts, living near San Francisco. He is a college graduate, but you wouldn't know it by looking at his bank statement.

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