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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!

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.

The Wall has been Hit… Again

On Friday night Jen and I were discussing weight. What can we do to lose it? Surgery is an option, but it’s a really scary one. Let’s put that on the back burner for a while. What about diet and exercise? That sounds good, but we both lack motivation and will power. What can we do? Some extreme options were mentioned, like a vegan diet, or an all liquid veggie diet. Those are also on the back burner. We decided to join weight watchers again. We both tend to do well in that framework, especially when we go to regular meetings. It’s damn expensive but the results have been pretty good. We had our first weigh in yesterday and we went to a meeting. We can’t get into the habit of missing meetings like we did last time. We have to stick with it. I lost about 20 pounds when we joined just after New Years. Since we stopped, I’ve gained 25. Not good.

As for exercise, we decided against a gym. With our work schedules and long commutes it’s just hard to make ourselves go enough for it to show any results. Instead, we bought a treadmill. Let’s start with that and see how it goes.