today's highlights

lunch: Safeway Signature Cafe Soup: Coconut and Red Curry Chicken Bisque

• really flavorful, really rich.
  
• 1 cup = 250 cals
• comes in 24 oz. containers for $4.39. that's 3 meals! or $1.46 per meal!!

standout snack: Single serving Haagen Dazs ice cream in Coffee flavor

• the tiny ass, shot glass sized carton is a total of 220 calories, so i split it and ate half at 2:30 and the other half at 3:30.
• DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH RESTRAINT THAT TAKES!?
• it even comes with its own little spoon.
• and only a dollar!

on the ipod: stuff you should know podcast: episode "how muppets work".

• lots of fun facts about jim henson's characters and behind the scenes schtuff.
• they post the question, what if jim henson had finished his college degree in accounting instead of inventing the muppets? what a sad, sad world it would have been! no grover. no bert and ernie. no kermie. no fraggles.
  

overall, it's been a fairly painless "diet" day. i definitely still get a little hungry, but i never feel STARVED and i have nearly every hour of eating and drinking mapped out so i'm usually able to make it to my next feeding time without wanting to chop someone's head off, as i'm wont to do. what's most nice about this new "system", for lack of a better word, is i haven't yet felt emotionally unhinged because of hunger. probably because there is very little time i'm not chewing or drinking. seriously. it's like i have a constant i.v. drip.

but i guess that's the point.