Double Diet Success
Apr. 29th, 2026 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disappointed_lesbianToday I had a third serving of caffeine+mct after lunch, and that allowed me to skip my midday snack. Between lunch and dinner, the only calories I had besides the mct oil was some coco sugar in my black tea and a few spoonfuls of blueberries. Another diet success.
I was worried about running out of instant espresso, but it seems that the black tea is enough caffeine. This is good because black tea is cheaper and, I think, healthier than espresso. Roasted foods, including coffee beans, accumulate acrylamide, which is carcinogenic, if I'm not mistaken.
However, I think I still need instant coffee first thing in the morning because at that point I'm still groggy from the remnants of melatonin in my system. Today I ordered a different brand of quick dissolve melatonin, and the AI-generated summary of user reviews indicated that this brand doesn't cause next-morning drowsiness, so maybe I'll finally be able to drop coffee altogether. I'm also finally trying 5-HTP to help with my insomnia.
It took me forever, but I finally got my new voip service set up. However, I cannot call or text with it until I receive a text message from someone. The world loves to discriminate against loners. I thought I'd get my sister to text me, but I don't know where her number is. I don't want my friend to text me because I don't want his cell carrier to be aware of my number at all. Being able to use the number is a little urgent because I want to verify my ability to make voice calls so that I can cancel my other voip service before I get charged for it again. Actually, I can cancel it now and pa later if I end up needing it.
Now that I can receive text messages, I have access to the remote AI jobs. They're shady as hell but they do get positive reviews and I need some kind of extra income dammit.
Getting away from the computer a bit before bedtime has been peaceful, but it seems to lengthen the amount of time I need to fall asleep. My mind is less occupied when I'm away from the computer, so I'm more open to random thoughts, but my random thoughts are seldom pleasant. I have been reading during this time away from the computer, albeit with frequent breaks, but even reading is not as absorbing as working on the computer, and my mind is so damaged that even subconscious thoughts can probably contribute to sleep-onset insomnia. So I'm not going to bother trying to get off the computer early any more.
Wait no all the AI companies pay via paypal and I cannot even access paypal anymore. unless. unless I receive a verification text message from them. There are so many AI companies looking for people to train and test their algorithms, I may be able to find one that doesn't pay via paypal. Probably not, since they all seem to be the shadiest operations around, not paying normally or on-time or at all in some cases. Lots of complaints about people not getting paid, on reddit.
All I need is a few thousand dollars, dammit; this shouldn't be so difficult.
So I'm very hopeful about my diet going well and being over soon. My sense of my body size has somewhat shifted and I feel rather heavy.
I was worried about running out of instant espresso, but it seems that the black tea is enough caffeine. This is good because black tea is cheaper and, I think, healthier than espresso. Roasted foods, including coffee beans, accumulate acrylamide, which is carcinogenic, if I'm not mistaken.
However, I think I still need instant coffee first thing in the morning because at that point I'm still groggy from the remnants of melatonin in my system. Today I ordered a different brand of quick dissolve melatonin, and the AI-generated summary of user reviews indicated that this brand doesn't cause next-morning drowsiness, so maybe I'll finally be able to drop coffee altogether. I'm also finally trying 5-HTP to help with my insomnia.
It took me forever, but I finally got my new voip service set up. However, I cannot call or text with it until I receive a text message from someone. The world loves to discriminate against loners. I thought I'd get my sister to text me, but I don't know where her number is. I don't want my friend to text me because I don't want his cell carrier to be aware of my number at all. Being able to use the number is a little urgent because I want to verify my ability to make voice calls so that I can cancel my other voip service before I get charged for it again. Actually, I can cancel it now and pa later if I end up needing it.
Now that I can receive text messages, I have access to the remote AI jobs. They're shady as hell but they do get positive reviews and I need some kind of extra income dammit.
Getting away from the computer a bit before bedtime has been peaceful, but it seems to lengthen the amount of time I need to fall asleep. My mind is less occupied when I'm away from the computer, so I'm more open to random thoughts, but my random thoughts are seldom pleasant. I have been reading during this time away from the computer, albeit with frequent breaks, but even reading is not as absorbing as working on the computer, and my mind is so damaged that even subconscious thoughts can probably contribute to sleep-onset insomnia. So I'm not going to bother trying to get off the computer early any more.
Wait no all the AI companies pay via paypal and I cannot even access paypal anymore. unless. unless I receive a verification text message from them. There are so many AI companies looking for people to train and test their algorithms, I may be able to find one that doesn't pay via paypal. Probably not, since they all seem to be the shadiest operations around, not paying normally or on-time or at all in some cases. Lots of complaints about people not getting paid, on reddit.
All I need is a few thousand dollars, dammit; this shouldn't be so difficult.
So I'm very hopeful about my diet going well and being over soon. My sense of my body size has somewhat shifted and I feel rather heavy.
