“I don’t mind stealing bread/From the mouths of decadence/But I can’t feed on the powerless/When my cup’s already overfilled***I’m going hungry” Temple of the Dog, “Hunger Strike”
By the way, my i Pod is a veritable collection of randomness, that’s all I can say in terms of these musical selections I choose to start most of my blog entries with. I guess that's what happens when you're a DJ...your tastes become broad and eclectic, of necessity.
Could a man give up beer if he had to, to survive? I mean, I know quite a few firefighters who, if they had to give up beer, would die first. My husband, who used to drink a case of beer a night, doesn't even have a beer a week anymore, unless he attends a parade or a firematic function, but that is, unfortunately, becoming rare. As a result of not ingesting beer so much, though, my husband has dropped from over 300 pounds to about 250 pounds. He just has to drop 20 to 30 more pounds, and he'll be at his goal weight. Like me, I guess. Except I don't drink beer, so what's my shortcut?
Giving up soda this past March, and never going back, not even a drop, carved only 5 pounds off my frame. And that was BEFORE I started this blog by far, so you can't even say that accounted for any of my current weight loss, which is stalled at five pounds.
I know that I have to keep away from the Coffee Coolattas from Dunkin' Donuts. Yep, I've been cheating every now and again with them. Mind you, it's not every day, and when I do cheat, it's once per day, not the TWICE a day I was up to when I was at my worst. And last night I had a big, fat piece of yellow cake with vanilla frosting.
The interesting thing is, I felt sick after eating the piece of cake. Overall, my sweet intake has been down for so long that eating that thing made my insides queasy. It's like weaning yourself from whole milk to 2%, then 1%, then down to skim, and then ultimately going to no-fat milk, which I've done myself. After you've been drinking the no-fat milk for, say, a month, try drinking the whole milk again. Tastes like you're swallowing liquid cheese, right?
What you may have to do in order to convince yourself to switch over to water throughout the day, which I've been doing MOST of the time until now, is this: think calories. Yes, realize that a Coffee Cooltta, which is packed with fat and sugar, is at least 350 calories! Some more popular coffee drinks go to a whopping 750 calories per serving...like the Starbucks Venti Double Chocolate Chip Frappucino! That drink alone has 28 grams of fat, with 16 of those grams being saturated fat. I mean, honestly, does that drink come with a free side of angioplasty!?!
So the take-home message of today is look out for the liquids you ingest every day. It's not the calories alone that matter...it's also the straight-up fat you're packing onto your body and your arteries. It's not just a matter of losing weight for me...it's a matter of being healthier, so I can live longer! How about you? What can you give up, just liquid-wise, that would help you in your quest?
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