Day 50

Oh, wonderful. A round number for an as of yet round moi.

OK, so I know that weight fluctuates, but this time it was by three whole pounds. Not. Happy.

This time I'm definitely starting to pinpoint possible culprits, the prime of which is yours truly.

Diet MTN Dew. God, that stuff is so good that I imagine crackheads looking at a "dewd" like myself with a certain amount of sympathy; pity, even. But I know that I know that I know that soda, diet or not, is the fastest diet killer there is. And yet i continue to do the Dew. It's what "dewds" do.

Culprit #2, actually that would be #3 counting myself, would be the metric tons of rice I've been eating at our favorite generic Asian restaurant. I say generic because it refers to itself as a Japanese restaurant, but most of the employees are either Chinese or Thai. And the food, well, we'll just call it Asican. It's what Americans think all them fur'ners up yonner in Asialand eat when they dine out.

Mostly it's rice with various different edible garnishes, decorated somewhat inappropriately with the odd maraschino cherry.

#4? Sugar free candy, to the order of two per day. 2. I know, right? I should have my jaw wired shut!!!

So yeah, Dew, rice, and a couple of pieces of sugar free candy, and I fluctuate well past what I consider to be an acceptable amount.

Oh, I almost forgot culprit #5! I'm only walking 90 minutes per day. 5 miles? I may as well be sitting on my lazy backside watching TV just like I did before I decided to put my treadmill to use. I mean, you know, if you want results from walking and diet alone you should be walking at least 26 miles every sinlge day. How can I possibly be expected to lose another ounce unless I'm competing in a full blown marathon at least twice a day?

Seriously, just because I'm 40, completely out of shape, and in a lot of pain, doesn't mean that I should not be able to run a 5 minute mile without breaking a sweat.

So Dew, rice, sugar free candy, sloth, a poor grasp of linear algebra, and total ignorance of my latent telekinetic abilities, have all contributed to this unacceptable step, leap rather, in the wrong direction.

Shame on me.

49 steps forward and one step back. God help me recover that which I have lost!!!

Day 50: 5 miles in 86 minutes, plus a 4 minute CD.

Today's word of the day: sarcharisma. n. The ability to employ sarcasm as a tool to unite people rather than to divide them.