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It’s no secret I like my food. I’m a sucker for a good pas­try or dessert. It’s how I got the way I am after being lean and healthy in 2001.

After read­ing a story in the New York Times a few days ago on The Calo­rie Restric­tion Exper­i­ment (hat-​​tip to my good friend, Mark Pesce, for the link), I decided in a grand ges­ture of unsci­en­tific zeal, to try some of what was hinted at in the story.

I’ve altered the way I’m eat­ing from sim­ply vol­ume restricted (which really doesn’t work for me and I find it hard to stick to) to high-​​nutrient, high-​​volume, low energy foods. Some grains and starch in the morn­ing, lots of fruit and salad the rest of the day, lean meat. Obvi­ously plenty of water (though I could drink more).

I can barely get it all in. I am con­stantly full. And I am eat­ing net less food than I was a week ago.

It will be inter­est­ing to see what the scale says on Fri­day morn­ing when I get home. And if this weird lat­eral knee dis­com­fort would just go away, it’d be awesome.