Day One...Monday, March 8th. Dollar a day? Does that mean no coffee for Eric??

Oh boy...what a day. Although Amanda is used to a carb rich diet, the complete lack of protein during the day caused a significant crash at around 4. For breakfast today, we had some homemade bread with peanut butter. As it turns out, the type of flour used (we used the ghetto Hannaford brand) makes a huge different. The "bread" turned out tough, crusty and tasteless. We bet you can guess what we had for lunch, too!

For Eric, Monday was more of a test of whether he could go on without coffee. Being the first day in probably 5 years made it extremely difficult. He never knew how hard it would be to completely get rid of the drug. The entire day was filled with severe headaches and feeling completely drained. For those who thought coffee and caffeine was something that didn't really affect their daily lives, try giving it up!

For dinner, we had split pea and garbanzo bean soup. We boiled them both with a half a bouillon cube and added some corn and rice. Although it was not very flavorful, Eric felt like he had done a 180 from the way he felt before. The "slop" should last us a few days. Amanda hit the wall and never turned around! Side note....Amanda was only awake for half this post...she is now asleep on Eric's arm. She did try!

Here we come day two!