Genius Eater

I’ve been back on DietPower ever since I got my new laptop a few weeks ago, and it has been going very well. I haven’t really lost any weight yet, but that’s okay — until I wean the Little Miss, my main goal is to just get a feel for how much I’m eating and what my nutrient intake is.

Also, I MUST get my daily A+. The school system has given me a crazy need for approval via letter grades.

Since I restarted on DietPower I’ve had little trouble getting an A every day. I figured out that one of the reasons I was getting low letter grades last time was that there is a zero tolerance in DP for trans fats — good, but seeing as how I have to get five calcium servings a day with the nursing and all, pretty hard to avoid. Even low-fat yogurt (I can’t stand the fat-free kind) has 0.1 grams of trans fats, which doesn’t seem like much, but when you think about it, it’s an infinite amount more than what DP allows.

Thus, getting an A was pretty tough. I have worked around this by “forgetting” to enter the trans fats box for any and all new foods I’m adding to the dictionary. An A is an A even if achieved via cheating, I say. I’m setting such a good example for my kids.

Anyway, while I was struggling to get a passing grade in DietPower, Sir Monkeypants spent a couple of days logging his own foods and found out that getting an A+ was child’s play. Easy as pie. Even on days when he ate a whole chocolate bar for lunch. And another for snack.

In fact, getting a high DP score was so incredibly easy for him that he soon discovered that if you get a daily score above 120 (totally unheard of in our past use of the software), you can actually get an A++.

Suddenly every over-achieving molecule in my body has something new to shoot for. I can be the best at eating, I know it!

Then yesterday, through the magical combination of Bran Flakes for breakfast, a calcium supplement, a Nutribar, and lentils for dinner, I went where no DietPower user has gone before.

Past 140.

Observe:
Genius Eater