Well, here I am back again and I want to get started by talking a little about how I got this thing started and that was with a serious look at my diet. Okay, it stunk! i was eating mostly junk food, drinking four or more cans of soda every day and to round it all off, I had this thing about giant size chocolate chip cookies with every cup of coffee that I drank, which, incidentally was sugared with cream.
What an awful mess! But you know, I just didn't see it at the time. The junk food was mostly hamburgers, fries, chili dogs, pizza, you know all the bad stuff! But it was like I was addicted to it. I would start the day with a pretty average breakfast of eggs, ham, waffles and coffee but then by lunch time I actually craved a hamburger and not just a little itty bitty one. It had to be at least a quarter pounder, sometimes two with king size fries and a king size coke. That was also after I'd already had a mid-morning coffee with a jumbo cookie! By the mid-afternoon I wanted another coffee and cookie and then when I got home in the evening, it would be a take out pizza, king size of course with as many toppings as you can imagine.
Okay, you get the picture. pretty bleak and if it wasn't for the fact that I could visibly see my waistline expanding cause I had to keep buying larger size pants, I probably woulda carried on that way until a heart attack stopped me.
So that's what was wrong. now what did I do that was right?
Well, it started slow, cause at first I didn't believe I could give any of that stuff up, you know. I kinda got myself into the way of thinking, one small thing at a time and work up gradually to the big stuff. The first thing to go was the cookie. Man that was tough! I told myself I didn't need it mid-morning cause lunch was like only an hour or so away and same thing in the afternoon. Two cookies a day might not sound like much, but they were darn big cookies and I guess a couple hundred calories a shot, so yeah, it was a good start.
Once I had gone a full week cookie-less, I guess there was no turning back and I was on my way. More later!
Brian
Categories: diet
