Day 2

I will only post current weight on Mondays. Daily fluctuations are mostly due to water levels in the body and menstrual cycle shenanigans. As it happens I'm nearing my period so I'm not taking seriously daily numbers right now.

I expected to feel hunger pangs this morning but it didn't happen. The black coffee I drink may be helping in that matter. I had a few late night cravings yesterday but they were more from "mouth-hunger" than from actual hunger. I was able to avoid eating the 9 pm popcorn made by my boyfriend; considering I last ate at 6 pm this was pretty good.

Currently reading Seth Roberts on what makes food fattening. A very interesting read, rounding up studies made about the flavor/calories association and body fat set-point. The diet I'm currently doing is based on most of the ideas in that article.
Something that leapt off the page: "A food is fattening (raises the set point) to the extent its flavor is associated with calories. The strongest flavor-calorie associations will occur, learning research implies, when four things are true: (a) the flavor is strong and complex flavor; (b) the food is digested quickly; (c) the food is eaten repeatedly; and (d) the flavor is exactly the same from one instance to the next. These four traits combine in a multiplicative way in the sense that if one is entirely absent, the food will not raise the set point at all". 

If those 4 things aren't exactly what is wrong with industrialized foods (including fast foods and prepared supermarket meals and snacks) I don't know what is. But it also raises interesting questions regarding home cooking and food choices. Does a highly spiced potato curry that gets eaten repeatedly over time and made using a precise recipe every time also raise set-point, even if homemade? If one switches the potato to lentils and improvises more in the way of spices one would get a different result? Interesting stuff.

Food is the same as yesterday. I was eager to eat dinner at 6 pm (after lunch at noon) but didn't suffer from invasive hunger.