NO SNACKS!

23 days in.... and I have 'survived' with no snacks (not even a relatively healthy snack like an apple)
Nothing... no snacks!
No wonder I am dropping some weight.
In a recent typical day prior to January 1st,  my snacking exceeded unbelievably high calories every single day. It could make you sick.  Actually it did.

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ADIOS SODA

I have successfully drastically cut back my soda consumption.   I do think I have picked up my coffee consumption with artificial sweetener.  I have vastly picked up my water consumption.  Each time I visit Applebee's, Panera, or Red Lobster - my beverage of choice is water. It is hard to change a lot of bad habits at once, but I have been at least somewhat successful.  And I have now been at this for a grand total of 18 days... The biggest step, was that first one... When I finally decided (again) enough is enough. Never has 278.5 pounds felt so good.  (And by the way, I am not fooled - it is still incredibly morbidly obese - but at least I am going in the right direction for the first time in a long time.

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FAUX SHOPPING SPREE

On Thursday night I visited a convenience store and I used my myfitnesspal app to record the calorie content of much of the 'snacks' that I have been enjoying for the past year.... Even I never had all from this list in one day - but I surely had much more than than this list in a week.  Hmmm, I wonder why I gained so much weight in the past year.  Mystery Solved. I am disgusted with myself. Actually, I am not disgusted at all.... I just finished my 9th day of not eating anything even remotely from this list... It does not take too long to start feeling better as I do. Yeah, I know... shocking

I have not completely removed sugar from my diet. It is hard.  There is some sugar in many restaurant prepared foods. But I have decreased my sugar intake by a factor of alot.

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