Slim Down: Week 2

Well, it's Week 2 of my attempt to make my fat ass a little smaller.

Week 1 went better than I thought it would. My goals last week were to 1. stop drinking Coke and start drinking water again, and 2. stop going to fast food places to pick up a quick dinner. I successfully refrained from drinking Coke or any beverage other than water. My bladder is saying, "what the hell is going on?", resulting in the need for me to pee every couple of hours. I know that will taper off as my body gets used to my water intake, though. I also successfully avoided fast food places last week. No McDonald's, no KFC, no chinese food, not even Subway. I actually ate mostly Lean Cuisine meals for dinner last week so my body would start getting used to smaller portion sizes again. I even did well at poker night Saturday - as I was looking at the fridge stocked with beer, Coke, Cherry Coke, and various other sodas, I settled on a bottle of water. I almost reached for the beer, but my better judgement prevailed. Well, better in the sense that it was better health-wise for me to drink water. Poker-wise, a nice shot of caffiene may have helped me stay awake a little longer so I wouldn't have had such a hard time concentrating on the cards at 4AM.

Sunday was rough, though - after getting home so late (or early, depending on your point of view) from poker, I was beat. And bummed that I didn't grab that $400 first prize. We stopped at Bob Evans later in the day, and In my haze of sleepiness and depression from losing poker, I ordered eggs, home fries, and sausage. And ate it all. But I didn't feel too bad - I mean it's only one day. It was the 3 pieces of pizza later on that did me in. I'm such a dumbass like that.

So back to the grind today. I haven't fared too well so far. I grabbed a bag of Peanut M&M's at work (bad, I know) but had a nice huge salad for dinner. It's force of habit that's doing me in. Usually, I'll sit down to watch American Idol on Tuesdays - before, I'd sit down with a bowl of popcorn or something else to munch on. When I started watching it tonight, something just felt off. Well, there's no popcorn in the house, and nothing else I was really that interested in, but I dished myself a bowl of vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup anyway. And ate it. I don't even think I really wanted it! I need to break the habit! Again, I'm a dumbass like that.

Looking ahead for this week, I think I'd like to make my goals:

• Continue the soda/caffiene boycott


• Continue avoiding fast food joints


• Stop getting Peanut M&M's from the vending machine at work


• Stop munching on things I don't even want (or even things I do want) at night.

I think that will be good enough for this week.
Maybe soon I'll have the courage to step on the scale!