Well, last post told the story of the bad diet that was leading to obesity city for sure. I got rid of the cookies and the journey sorta began right there. So where did I go next with this amazing transformation?
Well, amazing it certainly was not, at least not to begin with. After a week of no cookies, I decided to try and lose something else that I didn't need. Trouble was, without the mid-morning snack, I was even more hungry by lunch time and couldn't see any way to cut back on the food. But there was one thing I knew I could get rid of cause I'd read about how totally bad it was for you in more ways than you can imagine. The coke!
Yep, all soda is real bad for making you gain weight cause they are empty calories that don't satisfy any hunger, so the body grabs all that sugar and loads it straight into the fat store! I heard that even if you switch to diet soda, the artificial sweeteners in them actually stimulate your hunger so you want to eat more. I also heard some real bad stuff about aspartame, the lead artificial sweetener in most everything these days. Like, it causes cancer! Can you believe that?
I find it hard to believe a caring government would allow that kind of chemical to be put in stuff we eat, drink and give to our kids, but seems they either don't care or they are being deluded by the manufacturers or some kinda back-room stuff that ordinary folks like us are not informed about. Well, I read enough to convince me that no matter what they say and how they try and say it, in my book that stuff is poison!
Anyhow, the coke went off the menu at the hamburger restaurant lunch time and I also stopped drinking all soda totally and switched to unsweetened fruit juice or, heavens to betsy, plain water! I believe that reduced my daily calorie intake by a good amount.
You may notice I didn't really bother too much about knowing the exact calorie count of the stuff I was taking out of my diet cause I was loading in so much it really didn't matter too much to me. Well, after a week of no soda and two weeks of no cookies, what did I weigh in at? Well, I started at 210 pounds and two weeks into the slow change diet, I weighed in at… 206 pounds. Not exactly amazing results, right? But it was a step in the right direction and I was determined to do more to get that total down.
Brian
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