Week 23, day 161

I'm starting to climb out of my fog of blah, which is quite nice. I'm feeling a little less blah, and even managed to walk down to the supermarket today, which is my first real venture into the world since Monday (today's Friday, and my second day sick off work). Of course I was a little damp and short of breath on the return journey, particularly as I was laden down with care package contents to be shipped to overseas siblings shortly, but quite pleased to be up and moving around again.
In the day or so since my last post I've been spending a chunk of time online - there being little else I can do when too crappy to even write book reviews (the pile waiting grows ever higher and is currently at 77). In that surfing way one has, I started out looking for reviews of Lite'n'Easy, which lead me to other meal delivery programs (plenty if I lived in America, a few if I lived in Sydney, not so many in Melbourne, at least from a calorie counting perspective). I was, however, lead to the Schkinny Mannini website - I'm not a fan at all of fasting, but they provide something in the vicinity of 1900 calories a day, in the form of six 600ml juices, at least one of which can be gently heated and eaten like a vegetable soup. They offer one-, three-, four- and five-day options, and even though they're vastly more expensive than Lite'n'Easy (somewhere in the vicinity of $75/day), I'm thinking about trying it for a few days in a couple of weeks. I need to do something different - I'm twenty-three weeks in to improved eating, and though I've lost some weight, fairly steadily, I'm not more motivated, exercising regularly or, as has been abundantly clear in the last few days, healthier. Perhaps a break from food, particularly if it coincides with days off work, will help.
The program recommends transitioning back to food with a day of just fruit and vegetables. That, in combination with an attempt to work out the calorie content of achacha fruit, lead me first to a site discussing the 80/10/10 low-fat raw vegan program, and though I have no intention of following it, that then lead me to explore weekly deliveries of fruit and vegies, which I think I'll start doing as I transition off Lite'n'Easy.
And what is the achacha that lead to this virtual journey? It's a South American fruit a little like a lychee in texture and composition, protected by a tough skin you can incise with a fingernail, popping it apart to access the lime-like, sorbet-textured flesh. I've counted it as a lychee for calorie recording purposes, as I couldn't find any nutritional information online. They're very refreshing. - Alex