A while ago I wrote about giving up Mountain Dew, claiming this was something I hoped to achieve. I did achieve it, temporarily – and there lies the problem, temporary achievements are nothing short of failures. Calling a failure an achievement allows us to downplay a problem with ignorance.
The problem is, to give up something you really have to believe it is bad for you – you really have to be able to mentally weigh the pros and cons of giving it up.
We have enough cans to grow a forest.
The time has come where I am old enough to look at what I eat & drink, and tell myself it’d be a good idea to cut down or eliminate it.
Right now, I’m working on giving up Mountain Dew. My wife and I consume more than 30 cans worth of Dew a week, which is probably enough caffeine to keep a horse awake for a month.
What does caffeine do to you?
There’s more I’m sure, but that’s enough to convince me that I should give up. I started my no-caffeine diet on Saturday. I’ve slipped up a couple times by taking drinking some of my wife’s Dew. The worst part so far has been the anti-caffeine headache that has been pulverising my brain and taking my sanity along with it. The headache has eased off today though.
I hope that, by reducing my intake of carbonated drinks in general and replacing them with water, my weight will decrease gradually over the next few months. Maybe, by my birthday (June 6 for those of you kind enough to buy me a car present) I’ll be at my ideal weight.
Fingers crossed.
I’ve often thought about starting a personal blog – and I finally decided to bite the bullet. I’ve owned my name as a domain for years now, but I never bothered to use it. I used to keep my curriculum vitae uploaded here – but nobody ever visited; what a waste of a domain.
So, you’re here to read about me. If you’re not, you shouldn’t probably GET OFF MY DOMAIN NAME, AND STOP TRESPASSING!
Recently, I’ve become overly concerned about my weight. I don’t feel obese, but I am definitely overweight. Kelly (my wife don’t you know) is also overweight, and is more concerned about her weight than I am with mine.
Nonetheless, we decided to take reductive action. We bought a PlayStation 2 and Dance Dance Revolution! Yeah, that’s right, scoff at the idea all you want – but I burn in excess of 300 calories a day while dancing like a retard, something you could only ever dream of doing! (Needless to say I, more often than not, stop dancing when visitors arrive.)
The DDR game represents a saviour for us in more than one way. Besides helping us control our weight gain and loss, it also gives us something to do. My wife and I have found our way past those wonder years where all that matters is being together, now we actually need something to do together, something that we’re both interested in! (I knew she could only cope with Sci-Fi for so long.)
DDR has a workout mode, where you enter your weight and how many calories you want to lose, and as you play it calculates how many calories you have lost during each song. I lose calories at a quicker pace than my wife because I’m a big whale and she’s not, so she often suffers from spouts of jealousy when I burn three times as many calories as her. I also play it on difficult, because I think it makes me look cool. (To who? I’ll never know…)
Anyway, DDR has worked out to be a fun and effective way to control our weight and give our marriage more substance; as ridiculous as that may sound. What would be more ridiculous? Not trying.