Day 13

Need to make a run to the grocery - running a little low on veggies. If you're going to do this diet, you really need a lot of legal snack foods laying around (carrot sticks, nuts, etc.). I'm normally a drive-by snacker and I don't often pass up the chance to snag a cookie or cracker on my way through the kitchen. Now that the hunger isn't really an issue, the worst part of the diet is that everything I want to reach for to snack on is off limits. Preparing a good, grain-less meal is pretty easy, but keeping good snacks laying around is a little more tricky.

Breakfast: An omelet-ish dish of scrambled eggs, cheese, and braunschweiger. Yeah - the braunschweiger was as strange as it sounds.

Lunch: A couple apples, sardines, and cheese.

Dinner: Roasted chicken, asparagus, and peas.

And a hard cider to take the edge off the evening.

Day 12

The daily updates are getting less exciting. There isn't much in the way of news, so they're becoming simply stat updates.

Weight: 172

Breakfast: Fruit and cashews

Lunch: Pork chops, potatoes, and roasted squash

Dinner: Grilled chicken salad and a Coke

Day 11

Tried to spice things up this morning. I was starting to get embarrassed by my meager fruit breakfasts, so I decided to scramble a couple eggs in the microwave. I'm not sure what I made, but if I get naming rights, I'm calling it scalding egg chunk soup. It was... edible.

Lunch was leftover pork chops and roasted squash. Better than breakfast. And of course the all day snack of cashews.

And dinner was a burrito without the tortilla. Basically a pile of meat, toppings, and refried beans.

So we're just over the one third mark and there really has been no noticeable improvement in anything. I'm quite certain I would be losing weight if I weren't compensating by doubling up on protein and fat. Of course losing weight is not one of the goals.

I think I'll write up a full evaluation at the halfway mark.

Day 10

Breakfast was a single apple. I usually try to do better, but I was short on time. This diet isn't conducive to preparing quick meals. Snacked on cashews all morning.

Lunch: Roasted squash, apple, potatoes, and hard-boiled eggs.

Dinner was at least a real meal. Two pork chops, some potatoes sauteed in olive oil, and broccoli.

Weighed myself at the gym: 171 lbs

Perceived change in well-being: NONE

10 days in and I feel the same as before. Except slightly hungry all the time. And slightly irritated that I can't pop a fistful of granola into my mouth whenever I want.

Day 9

Another fruit breakfast. I'm going to be completely over fruit by the end of this.

Cobb salad and french fries from Wendy's for lunch. Minus the salad dressing since they have to use "modified corn starch" in the ingredients. Come on, Wendy's - won't you think of the 0.0000013% of the population that are piloting exotic grainless diets?!?

First public dinner outing tonight. Of course it has to be at a pizza parlor. Not sure I'm particularly interested in explaining why I'm engaging in the dietary version of Jackass, so I'll probably just feign an upset stomach or something.

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Dinner was fine. Turns out every place has some sort of salad. So salad and a diet coke for the evening.

And braunschweiger, cheese, cashews, and wine for a late night snack. I don't think I'd normally eat a pile of braunschweiger, but that really hit the spot.

Day 8

One week down. Feeling pretty fine. Weighed myself at the gym and I'm down just a tad to 170 in spite of eating every non-grain food item in sight.

Meals are starting to become very boring. It's not that you can't make a decent grain-less meal - it's just that unless you're awash in free time, doing so isn't very practical.

Breakfast today was a banana, an apple, and half a coconut. It sounds pleasant, but it turns out that eating coconut by itself is a complete chore. It combines the work of eating crab with the taste sensation of Styrofoam.

Lunch was a slab of leftover chicken breast.

Dinner chili, cheese, and peanut butter. Yogurt for dessert.

Day 7

The hunger is definitely starting to become a non-issue. I'm still usually a little hungry a lot of the time, but it's nowhere near as oppressive as before.

In fact, now that I'm not constantly perturbed by hunger, I may have a new problem. While coaching a soccer game this morning I almost forgot about the diet. During half-time I caught myself instinctively reaching for one of the granola bars. Fortunately, I realized it before I opened it up. I'm not sure how the parents would have reacted to the coach gagging himself on the sidelines, mumbling hysterically about a "no grain" diet.

Otherwise, uneventful day. No noticeable change in well being.

Breakfast: Real omelet, grapes, and banana
Lunch: Caramel apple with nuts
Dinner: Chicken wings and enormous caesar salad