(originally published August 14)
In addition to denying myself some various entertainment pleasures in 2008, I'm instigating a food moratorium now. It's some weird penance thing I'm on.
Kidding.
It's somewhat dietary, but in part just realization that my metabolism is slowing down, and that thanks to a rather unhealthy summer I've lost some of my nice physique (really haven't gotten fat, but I've lost some muscle due to inactivity). To stave off further degradation and ballooning, I'm taking a couple of vices out of the equation for a while until such time that I can appropriately measure my intake:
- Pop aka Soda aka Coke (an easy one... done it before can do it again)
- Booze aka Alcohol (excluded wine, the healthcohol)
- Potato Chips (also includes nachos, tortilla chips and corn chips)
- French fries (mainly forcing me into the salad route)
- Chocolate (it's going to be bad when the cravings hit... mainly referring to chocolate bars here)
- Hamburgers (because I've been having terrible indigestion with them lately)
- Fast food (the bad ones... and, oh, no Wendy's...ach! Pizza and subs and Mediterranean is okay)
- Mayonnaise (as much as possible)
- salad dressing
- candy covered nuts
- anything with trans fat
(added Aug.28)
- donuts
- Cinnabons (but not all cinnamon buns)
- Swiss Chalet
- chicken wings from Pizza Pizza
- onion rings
- packaged cookies
(added Sep.05)
-ice cream
-Yoplait Yoptimal yogurt
So far that's the list, but more may be added.
When I was in San Diego, I realized that because I was so sick and my throat so sore and swollen that I ate incredibly healthy, since if I was going to put something in my body that would cause me great pain to start, it better help me out in the long run. I wish to maintain that thinking without being a Granola Nazi about it like those freaks at Veggie Hut who keep pestering the fine folks at Meat Shake.
or whatever.