Unhappy Hour

No nachos? No cheese dip? No soft pretzel with queso? Doesn't make me happy at all.

I'll just have a salad...

So today is Day 2 of the bet. I've had more salad, and not the good kind with full fat ranch dressing, cheese and croutons, in the past 2 days than I have in the past 2 months. Now that's not a bad thing but salad is soooo boring to me. It's a side dish. Not a full meal. But alas when you go to Hooters, salad is really the only choice. Unless you actually do want to eat 900 calories for lunch. On the upside, I'm not completely starving.

A picture of what??

So the terms of the bet proposed by my brother is I have to lose 40lbs by my birthday or set a bathing suit picture of myself as my profile pic on facebook. He was very careful to stipulate exactly what he wanted. Current picture, no far away photos, no cover-ups, no tshirts with bikinis painted on them, etc. That does not interest me in the least so I have to lose 40 lbs by July 4th. I guess one of us will be celebrating! He has to take an equally unflattering photo if he doesn't lose his goal as well.

New bet?

So my brother proposed we come up with a new bet for weight loss. I'm a little surprised since I didn't exactly pay up on the last one :) I guess we'll see what he proposes.

80/20

I read a link to an article in Prevention magazine that said 80/20 was the way to approach losing weight and eating right. Basically 80% of the time you eat/exercise healthy and 20% of the time (events, holidays, special occassions) you have a piece of cake, enjoy the buffett at a wedding, etc. So today, I  had banana pudding for lunch. It was 2 co-worker's birthdays. Tonight, I am NOT going to eat a box of Girl Scout cookies. I might be able to get on board with this theory.

What was I thinking?

Cold turkey from soda?? I promptly decided about 9 a.m. the next morning that I had made a mistake. That's about the time I thought my head was going to explode from the lack of caffeine. I don't drink coffee or tea. So I compromised with myself and am going to limit myself to 2 Coke Zero/Diet Cokes a day. And since a soft drink is usually more than it costs to buy the actual glass it comes in, it'll benefit my wallet to drink water at restaurants.

Sweet nectar of the gods...

Otherwise known as Coca-Cola. It's a wonderful bubbly drink. It's also like drinking liquid sugar with absolutely ZERO nutritional benefits. I drink at least 3 a day. I'm thinking that can't be good for me so I'm going to start drinking diet coke/coke zero. Well guess what.. that's bad for you too!! So I'm going to try to go cold turkey. I wonder if I'll make it past 10 a.m. tomorrow.

I'm bringing Sexy back...

Them other boys won't know how to act...
That's right, I'm gonna bring my sexy back. I had someone I work with tell me I have such a pretty face. Exactly what all fat chicks want to hear. I do have to give him credit for saying that if I lost weight I would be "hot as hell". So I have decided to prove him right! Wish me luck.