I only weighed myself once during the month of December and it was near the later part of the month when a close friendship fell apart and I was creating every excuse known to man to NOT go to the Y. Funny that, I'm still using some of those excuses today! Well, OK it's not funny.
Back on December 22nd I weighed exactly what I did on November 29, 2011 - 346lbs. I wasn't pleased yet not shocked either. I wasn't living and eating deliberately. I'd sort of let things go. Now, I wasn't sitting around and eating Twinkies and Big Macs, but my love affair with Coca Cola was hot and heavy again, and mashed potatoes were making regular appearances around here.
Then at the start of this month I got sick. Heinously ill. I ended up going back to see my doctor on Friday the 13th because I still wasn't feeling well and was having trouble staying hydrated because every single thing I was eating - or trying to eat, was shooting out of me pretty rapidly.
First things first, I was weighed. I was a bit shocked when I saw the scale...
Previous weight on 12/22/11: 346lbs
Current weight on 1/13/12: 334lbs
Twelve whole pounds. In just under a month. In an ideal world, I'd prefer that number be double what it is, but I'm still proud to see it in the negatives and not a plus, or the same. I'm certain that being ill contributed, but once the holidays were over, I stopped snacking. Plus, Coca Cola (and the nearly extra 600+ calories a day I was consuming by having 1-3 per day!) is completely out of my diet. I have since had one soda just to see what I thought. It was a Barq's Root Beer and it was so sweet that it immediately came back up. I only had about an ounce but that was all it took. Considering how sick the mere thought of a regular soda pop makes me, I'm pretty surprised that I've grown so fond of Gatorade. At times though, it's been the only thing I have been able to keep down. It's still 130 calories per bottle and I need to cut it off...and soon! Those 12lbs could maybe have been 14lbs if I weren't drinking 1-2 Gatorades a day. Hmmm, perhaps someone has a bit of a sugar addiction?
