January 13, 2004

Vito

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Looking back, this made for an interesting journal entry. I didn't realize until re-reading my entires how much I was addicted to eating large amounts of food. This goes to show you that I was indeed an addict:

It's been nearly two weeks now since I started this diet, and each day it seems to have gotten harder and harder to cut back on what I am used to eating. I sit here knowing that I should be doing something, but don't know what to do since I would usually use any and all extra time to eat whatever I could get my hands on.

This morning's breakfast went really well for a change. I finally got the courage to throw away all of the left overs that were in the fridge from last night this way in the morning I would not be been tempted to eat them along with whatever else I was going to have. I have cut the cheese out of my diet, so I only had about a dozen eggs along with some biscuits, toast, 8 strips of bacon, about 6 sausage links, and a glass of orange juice to wash it all down.

After breakfast I went for my usual walk. I've only got a week or so to go before I hit my 21st day. They say something about it taking 21 days to break an old habit and form a new one. Hopefully what they say is true. The walk went alright, I suppose. My ankles still hurt from the tremendous amount of stress that they take when I walk on them. I was able to walk about a quarter of a mile this morning before I had to sit and rest for a few minutes. Afterwards I made my way back home to where I took a long nap and woke up a little after noon.

For lunch I treated myself to pizza since I had not had it for nearly three weeks. Instead of ordering my usual two large pies, I only went with one large pie, no toppings, and no soda. I came to the realization several days ago that soda contains empty calories... I also did a little research online and started to read about just what our bodies are made of, what they need, what they don't need, and some diet tips. Turns out the internet is a great resource when it comes to diet information. After having my pizza I tried to do a little house work off and on, but my ankles began hurting too much, so I decided to do some more research online.

Inbetween lunch and dinner I made my self a mid-afternoon snack in which I had a bag of chips, a roast beef sandwhich, a left over slice of pizza from lunch, two biscuits, and a Hungry Man TV dinner.

Dinner came around and I made myself 3 12-ounce steaks on the George Foreman grill - it was a great buy. It really helps cut down on some of the fat on the things that I cook. I made some mashed potatoes and gravy to go along with it, a can of corn, three biscuits, and some V8 Splash.

After dinner I did some laundry and watched some Law and Order on NBC before bed at 11:30pm. Before bed I had half a bag of pretzles along with some more V8 Splash since I was thirsty. I remembered to go through the fridge and throw away any left overs that I may be tempted to eat come tomorrow morning.

This morning's weigh in was 672 pounds. In just about two week's time I've lost about 5 pounds.