It’s been a while. I admit it. Break was about reading for me, not making. However, I learned some phenomenal things and made some interesting connections. I will explain more in detail later, as I do not have the books handy right now to give you exact quotes that refer to connections I made between my reading and the “idea” of my application.
However, I am beginning the wireframing and (basic) designing today and tomorrow, looking at color combinations, analyzing button placement and the overall visual necessities for each screen as the app stands now.
I’d also like to state that my eating habits have changed quite a bit over the course of this project. Whether or not that affects my choices for this project later on, I do not know. The most recent change is the ban of all caffeine and cheese from my diet. Both are gone 100% as of December 28th. How long this will continue for is unknown, though at least through the first week of February.
This has been an incredibly revealing 11 days so far. My diet is drastically different. I ate cheese and dishes with cheese constantly. Unless you remove cheese from your diet, the existence of cheese in the American diet is a given. Most food contains cheese, whether it’s a recipe made at home or a meal eaten out. Here’s a short list of the things I cannot eat, or have to alter one way or another in order to stay true to my cheese-free month (and counting…): pizza, cheeseburgers, quiche, grilled cheese, mac & cheese, broccoli cheddar soup, baked brie in raspberry, spinach artichoke dip, PLAIN CHEESE, greek salad (doesn’t taste right w/o feta), asagio bagels, lasagna, alfredo sauce, parmesan cheese on any pasta dish, every deli sandwich, quesadillas, nachos, chips & queso, jalapeno poppers, breadsticks, cheese popcorn, cheetos, cheese-flavored crackers, cheezeits, chicken parmesan, tortellini, omelettes, breakfast bagel/burritos, pretty much every salad with the exception of restaurant house salads…
And then there’s the caffeine- I’m okay without coffee, learning to not drink black or green tea and have herbal tea instead, not a big pop/soda drinker, so that’s good too, but I am having one large problem with this one. Chocolate is included. I’m a dark chocolate fanatic. No hot chocolate, chocolate ice cream, chocolate sauce, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate anything.
The result: I’ve been eating more almond butter than usual and getting used to non-chocolate solutions to my sweets cravings. Fruit and cinnamon-flavored things have been a nice fix so far.
How this will affect my application, I do not know. What I have learned so far is that eating out has been a much harder thing to do lately with my prescribed “diet”, as has grocery shopping. I can definitely sympathize more with people who have restricted diets, even though it’s been a short time so far.
