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Working from Home on a Diet

Today is my first day working from home since restarting weight watchers and getting back on the diet and exercise bandwagon.  When I am in the office there is a soda machine and a candy machine and a cafeteria full of good stuff.  It’s pretty easy to avoid it because it involves money.  If I don’t take any to work with me then I can’t be tempted.

At home things are different.  Our decision to do this happened quickly and at the time there was still a fair amount of junk food in the house.  There is a box of cookies and a bag of chips literally three feet away from me as I type this. 

The temptation is there, but I will rise above it.  I can beat this!

2014-15 Boston Bruins

The Bruins are holding captains practices in Wilmington, leading up to training camp a couple of weeks from now.

The playoff loss to Montreal left a bitter taste in my mouth, but in a different way then losing to Chicago in the finals did the season before last.

After Chicago I didn’t want anything to do with hockey. It was too sad. Too depressing to have come so close and lost.

This year though, I’m PISSED! I want revenge. On Montreal. On the division. On the conference. On the whole bloody NHL!

Kick all their asses, Bruins! Vengeance! Vengeance! Vengeance!

Now that the summer is unofficially over it is time to start jonzin’ for hockey.

Three Whole Days

I know that every time I get the weight loss bug I post something exactly like this.  It’s repetitive, I know.  I’m sorry.  It’s just that if you see the kind of diet I subject myself to you will understand how epic a change this is…

Here goes…

I haven’t had any caffeine since Saturday morning.  Three.  Days.  Ago. 

I literally have not ingested caffeine into my body since last month.

And somehow, I have not died.  I can’t believe it.  Normally if you took a sample of my blood you would find that it is carbonated and caffeinated.  That’s how much soda I drink.  Lakes worth of coca~cola.  Seas of it.  Oceans of it.  Whole great big bunches of coca~cola.  And somehow I have gone for three days, more than 72 hours, without even a taste of it.

I don’t know how I’ve managed to survive this long, but I can say that last night I went to sleep at a decent hour.  Hopefully the caffeine ban is having positive results.

Go for a Walk

So I mentioned we went back to Weight Watchers. We also bought a treadmill. We could have re-joined a gym, but with our schedules during the week being so crazy (I spent almost three hours in the car, not counting the actual work day today) it’s really difficult to make ourselves go.

So we bought a treadmill. A big one. A big industrial strength monster treadmill. If we ever need to barricade ourselves inside the house to keep a zombie horde outside (or something) we can just put this thing in front of the door and live happily ever after. Assuming of course we can actually move it to the door. Hadn’t thought of that. Crap. Zombie lunch, I guess.

I turned it on and started walking. I made it a quarter of a mile before… I… dropped… dead.

Urgh, I am the King of Outofshape.

Dragon Flies

I was just outside cooking chicken on the grill. Out in the yard with me were a great big bunch of dragon flies. They were circling around like mad, darting this way and that. There must have been a major increase in the mosquito population or something like that, because those dragon flies were hunting like crazy. I actually some how managed to see a dragon fly grab a mosquito out of mid air. Bye bye, you blood sucking vampire mosquito asshole.

Dragon flies are my favorite bugs.