Day 4

I'm not sure about my attitude today. Yesterday was very difficult. I feel okay right now, 'cause it's morning, and my hunger pangs don't seem to kick in in the morning. But yesterday was hard. I was whining about how I hadn't eaten much of my "birthday cheesecake" and my wife decided to cut me a sliver of it. And I DO mean a sliver. I hardly remember what it tasted like. But technically, that means I broke the diet to eat a sliver a cheesecake. A weird psychological thing happens when we break a diet even a little bit. Often, the slightest variation causes me to toss in the towel on the whole thing. Somehow I've gotta fight down that notion, 'cause the slice probably only contained about 50 calories. When all I'm getting is 800 calories a day anyway on this Optifast thing, that's not a terrible infringement.

My wife is downstairs making a big breakfast right now before Church. I smell it. Will I sample a piece of bacon?

Not gonna happen. I just gotta get through these very difficult next few days.