Stuffing My Face at Midnight

No, I wasn't breaking my diet -- I was keeping it!

So after getting back from the gym, last night, and downing a huge can of green beans in its entirety, I added up my calories for the day, which, before expending 300+ calories at the gym, was only 540. NOT GOOD. I don't care what kind of diet you're on, having a deficit of almost 2000 calories at the end of the day is not healthy or sustainable. So, at midnight, I finally had the reserve to go to the market and MAKE myself buy food that I could eat before bed. It was actually kind of like a game -- what products to buy that could add up to give me the calories I needed for the day (my target is about 1460) while maximizing nutrition and fullness. I ended up cooking myself some tortellini (which I couldn't even eat half of -- those green beans were filling!), having a protein drink with some lactose-free milk (testing out the theory that I might be lactose intolerant), and some rice crackers covered in wasabi (LOVE THOSE!).

It was really kind of funny that I was exhausted and wanted to sleep but had to eat!

Diets are odd things.

On more food news, I have discovered that tea is AMAZING! Zero calories and it doesn't require sugar to be potable (unlike coffee), and still can give you the pep you need to be called on AGAIN in Contracts.

A friend of mine was making fun of me after class, today, because when I'm called on I get all quiet and nervous (surprising, I know), but it's honestly because I'm given questions that are too easy! I was all prepared to describe a complicated multi-step application of a part of the Universal Commercial Code (so complicated that the professor even gave us a huge flow chart to help us navigate it), but instead was asked about the method by which a particular contract was formed in one of our cases (that we were supposed to read for yesterday, of course) and I was stuck for a minute, trying to conjure up some theory of contract formation, when I was like "you mean by telephone?" Yes. He just wanted to know how one party contacted the other (which, for the record, was not even material to this case).

I promise to not annoy you with BOTH diets and law school (I figure restricting myself to the first topic will be sufficiently tedious to my readers), but I just think it's funny how in the past two days I managed to define myself, to my surprise, as the shy guy who struggles with easy questions and doesn't do the torts reading...talk about poorly representing myself!

Too bad :)

VC