Day 29 started out with a complete lack of creativity. I woke up with no plan, and no plan gelled on the way down the stairs to the kitchen. So breakfast was PB&J with coffee.
Now the good thing was that as I was standing in front of the refrigerator trying to figure out the rest of the day's plan I realized my previous self of day 28 did actually have a plan for day 29 - only my day 29 self had forgotten. Economists who study behavior often talk about how we treat our future selves as separate from our present selves - and we often engage in something called "hyperbolic discounting" - which is a fancy way of saying we do things like eat twice as much today because tomorrow our future self will get serious about dieting. In other words, our present self treats our future self like a red-headed step child. In this case my past self actually did something smart for my future self and made a nice chick pea salad for my Day 29 self to eat.
This recipe made two servings, so I ate half for lunch:
so lunch was
| Breakfast | Quantity | Cost | Calories |
| bread, wheat | 4 | $0.52 | 266 |
| peanut butter | 1 | $0.27 | 180 |
| jelly | 1 | $0.18 | 56 |
| coffee | 3 | $0.28 | 7 |
| $1.25 | 509 |
Now the good thing was that as I was standing in front of the refrigerator trying to figure out the rest of the day's plan I realized my previous self of day 28 did actually have a plan for day 29 - only my day 29 self had forgotten. Economists who study behavior often talk about how we treat our future selves as separate from our present selves - and we often engage in something called "hyperbolic discounting" - which is a fancy way of saying we do things like eat twice as much today because tomorrow our future self will get serious about dieting. In other words, our present self treats our future self like a red-headed step child. In this case my past self actually did something smart for my future self and made a nice chick pea salad for my Day 29 self to eat.
This recipe made two servings, so I ate half for lunch:
| chick pea salad | Cost | Calories |
| 15 oz can chick peas | $0.99 | 428 |
| 1/2 cucumber | $0.50 | 10 |
| 1/2 green pepper | $0.65 | 14 |
| 5 oz onion | $0.39 | 32 |
| Corn | $0.65 | 120 |
| 2 tbsp balsamic vinegrette | $0.35 | 30 |
| $3.51 | 634 |
so lunch was
| Lunch | Quantity | Cost | Calories |
| Chick Pea Salad | 0.50 | $1.76 | 317 |
| coffee | 3.00 | $0.28 | 7 |
| $2.04 | 324 |
Dinner was macaroni with peas and olive oil, and two hard boiled eggs.
| Dinner | Quantity | Cost | Calories |
| macaroni | 2.00 | $0.31 | 210 |
| olive oil | 2/3 | $0.23 | 60 |
| peas, canned | 1.00 | $0.50 | 120 |
| egg, boiled | 2.00 | $0.29 | 155 |
| $1.34 | 545 |
I had a bag of peanuts in the afternoon, and then when I got home from work (late), my father was having a gathering at the house, so I couldn't make dinner right away, so I grabbed a second bag from the kitchen and headed up stairs to wait till I could come back down and make myself dinner. This is the problem with living in someone else's space. Househunting stinks!
So I ate a lot of peanuts (($1.00; 520 cal) on day 29, though not by plan.
Day totals:
Cost: $5.62
Calories: 1,898
Exercise: 0 from 5,326 steps. I have to confess, the exhaustion from house hunting combined with my foot bothering me really just left me in no mood to do anything last night.
Weight: 164.8
So I ate a lot of peanuts (($1.00; 520 cal) on day 29, though not by plan.
Day totals:
Cost: $5.62
Calories: 1,898
Exercise: 0 from 5,326 steps. I have to confess, the exhaustion from house hunting combined with my foot bothering me really just left me in no mood to do anything last night.
Weight: 164.8
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