The second week of winter term has commenced, and mentally I’m feeling okay. But physically…

• It had to come sooner or later… I’ve got a cold. The last time I was sick was the weekend before school started. I had a bad fever and was so hot/cold I didn’t want to roll over and sip some water. So, I should be thankful it’s just a cold (so far). I think I might just cozy on up and read… But at the same time a coffeehouse sounds like a nice place to be. However, another bad part of a cold is the loss of taste. For lunch I grabbed some Pita Pit down the road on the way back from class… I could hardly taste it despite all my deep-breathing, nasal-clearing, pre-eating efforts. Really all I could get out of the flavor was the eggplant hummus and a little bit of the scrumptious Tzatziki dressing. Good enough for me.
• However, the diet is going well. Over winter break, as you know I was very worried about weight gain, but then I don’t know what happened and I came back to school having lost five pounds. Yee yee! I’m getting really close the 160′s now… Maybe one more week? According to an online BMI Calculator, I need to get to 159 pounds in order to be considered normal weight in body mass percentage terms. But I know calculators can be terribly inaccurate in addition to the fact that I tend to actually be more big-boned. So… I’d say by now I’m getting pretty close to that mark. Once I get there it will be a celebration. In BMI sense, I will have crossed an entire category, dropping from the “obese” ranking down to “normal”. There’s no stopping me now as my whole life has changed.
• I also tend to notice that I eat differently. Often I find that I’m content with just consuming food to keep my body fed with calories. I don’t necessarily need the best tasting stuff. For example, the no-meat Mediterranean pita I had for lunch today… Or the Egg Beaters I had for breakfast. I actually hope I’m getting past that need for the best-tasting food. I want to be one of those people that don’t obsess over what their meal will taste like and rather what’s in it and how it was produced. I want to be a health nut and go organic or something. We will see where it goes… Probably just a fad.