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"It&amp;#039;s day 6 of the Fat Smash diet and I confess I have nothing exciting to say today. It&amp;#039;s boring being on a diet! Every day has been pretty much the same:  morning: oatmeal and fruit mid-morning snack: fruit lunch: salad with greens and grilled veggies snack: homemade hummos with veggies dinner: corn and black bean salad with brown rice  Even when I&amp;#039;ve eaten in a restaurant, it&amp;#039;s still been boring. We went to a local Italian place and I had a salad. Went to a meeting today where lunch was served and I had -- whoopee! -- a salad. But tonight we&amp;#039;re barbecuing. You&amp;#039;d think it&amp;#039;d be a bit more exciting. What are we having, you ask? You guessed it: a salad -- this time, with grilled vegetables on top. The rest of my family will be eating cheeseburgers and hot dogs but no, not me! I&amp;#039;ll be like a rabbit, nibbling on my lettuce.  Blech. I can&amp;#039;t imagine eating like this all the time. There&amp;#039;s too much predictability and too little variety. And I need variety in my life. This sameness is starting to get me down in the dumps. I hate to say that eating good food puts me in a good mood, but... hey, it&amp;#039;s true. I really enjoy the rituals around eating and cooking. Planning what to make, which restaurant to try, how to serve something I made, what to order off a menu, having friends enjoy a recipe I created, and so on. It&amp;#039;s what makes eating fun!  Sure, I can eat restrictively for 9 days (as the Fat Smash diet suggests). But beyond that -- no way. I guess that&amp;#039;s why I picked this particular diet in the first place: it&amp;#039;s 9 days of hell, and then it starts to get back to normal. No 6-week or 90-day detox; it&amp;#039;s only 9 days, which is good because that&amp;#039;s about all I can handle.  Well, at least I think I can handle it.  I only have 3 days left and I can feel I&amp;#039;m starting to reach my breaking point. I&amp;#039;m passing hot dog vendors in the street and salivating. Today I saw a girl with an ice cream cone and I swear I almost took a bite of her cone as she brushed past me.  But I really hope I can last another 3 days. I mean, I&amp;#039;m three-quarters of the way there and I can&amp;#039;t fail now\u2026.Or can I? Stay tuned till next week when I report on how well the end of the detox went!  How I was good today: Ate what&amp;#039;s now the &amp;quot;usual&amp;quot; meal of veggies, fruits and brown rice. How I was bad today: Didn&amp;#039;t exercise. Took Finn for a shorter walk than usual. What I avoided: Everything! The hardest was a &amp;quot;cupcake tasting&amp;quot; in my office. Of course they had to schedule that the one week I can&amp;#039;t eat participate! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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