In the six years since college, I have put on about forty pounds and added about 2-4 inches to my waistline (depending on the brand of pants). I keep thinking eventually I’ll do something about it, but I keep putting it off. So I’ve decided I need to stop this infinite loop. I’m going to start off with the goal of completely eliminating the following from my diet:
Soft drinks and sweet tea (pretty much any drink besides water and milk)
French fries
Ice cream
Cake and cake-like substances (this includes brownies and doughnuts)
Assuming I manage to keep to this, I will re-evaluate the list in a few months and maybe add other things I really shouldn’t be eating. I realize that regular exercise would probably be an ideal approach in a perfect world. But I’m pretty sure the odds of me continuing to exercise regularly for a long period of time are pretty close to zero. Maybe if I worked at a company that had a gym on-site there would be a 25% chance I would actually spend some time there, and a 7%1 chance that I would go regularly for more than a year. So I’m hoping that attacking the most unhealthy parts of my diet will pay off.
Now I must apologize for boring you with aspects of my life that no one but me could possibly care about. I’m hoping that I will be more likely to stick to it after making a public announcement.
April 18, 10:00 pm
I care very much about this subject. It will help me do a better job after Grayson is born too if we work together. I’m hoping to add working out on Wii Fit, too, once I’m feeling up to it. Who knows how long it will take me to get fully recuperated from a second C-section though.