Some people eat to live, some live to eat. I'm somewhere in the middle. And my middle is telling quite a story.
Honestly, I have tried to cut down on snacking, I've started eating smaller portions at meals, and I've been drinking more water. When I drink more water, I tend to eat less, but I also like to drink a lot of soda, effectively adding roughly 600 calories of sugar-water waste to my expanding waistline every day. with a desk job, I'm not really burning off many calories at all.
So what am I doing about it? Well today, I ate an ENTIRE BOX of Ritz Bits crackers. Not a smart thing to do. Really stupid, actually.
I really need to get back to exercising, eating more fruit, and drinking more water. Cut out the coffee and pop, the instant iced tea and the candy. Sounds boring, right? Well, I think I'd rather make the choice now than to have toe doctors tell me I need to change my diet post-heart attack. I cannot allow myself to become so unhealthy.
I'm planning to play disc golf more often, just to get the walking exercise in. I hope to eat better. I hope to drink more water and eat less junk. I'd like to lose 10 pounds before the end of the year. I was hoping to lose much more than that at the turn of 2004 to 2004, but I think I need to start small and reasonable. remove the temptations of snacking, and perhaps even keep a food diary so I can keep track of things.
I'd weigh myself at home to get started, but I weigh more than the home scale can calculate. I'll have to use the Doctor's Office-like scale at work to start. I guess when I lose 10 pounds and can use the scale at home, that will be my first milestone.
Posted by MEK at September 8, 2004 03:20 PM