Jericho: The diet is working, unfortunately.
On Monday we checked my weight. Yes, "we". Steph has to look at the numbers on the scale, I can't see over my huge stomach. Embarrassing? You bet! IWDC lives to embarrass its writers and entertain its readers ... with our shame.
I'm at 501. Not below 500 like I would like to be, but I hope to hit that minor goal next Monday. I'm sixteen pounds down so far - not shabby.
However, we're not about numbers these days. They are a good tool but not the end all be all. My leg edema is my most pressing, immediate concern. I was hoping my leg edema would show more progress than it has. Obviously from my last sentence, it hasn't.
More than all of this, I know the diet is working. How do I know? I've kicked the sugar cravings. Better, and worse, I now get reverse reactions to sugary foods. This morning, I went to the cafe' in my building for breakfast. The main dish was some kind of Dutch apple pie thingy smothered in sugar, sweet something, something something and they offered maple syrup as a topping. It smelled freeking wonderful! When I looked at it, I nearly gagged. My sense of sight is competing with my sense of smell for control of my body.
I just went to a departmental meeting. They had a cart of soda, I grabbed a diet coke. They also had four giant serving platters piled with my favorite: cookies!! Every kind a fat man could desire. Free. Just take one. Take many! I heaved an audible groan and took none. A friend in the room said they were meant to bring me joy. I told him they didn't bring me joy. They brought me remorse and regret, but no joy. Again, they looked like pure shit but smelled like the cleavage of an angel! I had to sit on the other side of the room, easily ten meters away just to avoid the smell, which both delighted and revolted me.
So, either the diet is working or I am developing a wildly bulimic second personality. At this point, I'll settle for either.
I'm at 501. Not below 500 like I would like to be, but I hope to hit that minor goal next Monday. I'm sixteen pounds down so far - not shabby.
However, we're not about numbers these days. They are a good tool but not the end all be all. My leg edema is my most pressing, immediate concern. I was hoping my leg edema would show more progress than it has. Obviously from my last sentence, it hasn't.
More than all of this, I know the diet is working. How do I know? I've kicked the sugar cravings. Better, and worse, I now get reverse reactions to sugary foods. This morning, I went to the cafe' in my building for breakfast. The main dish was some kind of Dutch apple pie thingy smothered in sugar, sweet something, something something and they offered maple syrup as a topping. It smelled freeking wonderful! When I looked at it, I nearly gagged. My sense of sight is competing with my sense of smell for control of my body.
I just went to a departmental meeting. They had a cart of soda, I grabbed a diet coke. They also had four giant serving platters piled with my favorite: cookies!! Every kind a fat man could desire. Free. Just take one. Take many! I heaved an audible groan and took none. A friend in the room said they were meant to bring me joy. I told him they didn't bring me joy. They brought me remorse and regret, but no joy. Again, they looked like pure shit but smelled like the cleavage of an angel! I had to sit on the other side of the room, easily ten meters away just to avoid the smell, which both delighted and revolted me.
So, either the diet is working or I am developing a wildly bulimic second personality. At this point, I'll settle for either.
posted by Jericho Brown at 6/25/2008 03:37:00 PM
8 Comments:
But isn't a carrot stick just as tasty?
Yeah, cause water and full sugar Coke are exactly the same!
In all seriousness, my drink of choice has become green tea. Good Earth makes a Jasmine Green Tea I can't seem to get enough of. You get that floral taste/aroma, a little caffeine and the antioxidants and flavonoids we all know and love. (You have to admire a three thousand year old product that has been PROVEN to contribute to weight loss!)
Brew it up with a good bit of Splenda, pour it over ice. Yum! Negligible calories and great taste - who'd a thunk?
So... what happened to my comment? did it never make it up or did it get deleted?
Dunno, Jer?
Anyhoo, I consider myself fortunate to live in a world with Coke 0 and Red Bull Sugar free.
I didn't erase your comment. I guess it didn't make it. Feel free to leave it again ...
'Twas a silly comment, anyway. ;)
Good luck with your diet, Jer. Stick with it... don't give up.
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