Alcohol
Posted by Joel Sat, 19 May 2007 21:31:04 GMT
After finding myself working out only once a week but still eating junk and drinking beer and all that, I was still at around the same weight I started at. So, much like I did last summer, I'm going to try taking my fitness very, very seriously for a short time. Last time, I was very successful in this goal until a certain day shot my motivation and confidence levels, but I don't see anything like that in the foreseeable future.
The goal I have set for myself is going to last until my 26th birthday, which is January 19th, 2008. This goal is to not drink any alcohol in any form. There are two reasons for this. First, the obvious one, is that I think I drink too much alcohol, and it's not a good habit to start increasing. I looked at my kitchen table and had 14 bottle caps after a week. That's quite a bit. And in terms of fitness, at 150 calories each, that's over 2000 calories, a day's worth of food.
But for me, not even 2000 will be a day worth of food. More like 1500. I'm only eating two healthy, portion controlled meals a day and I'm avoiding snacks, desserts, fatty coffee drinks, etc like the plague.
And I'm exercising every single day. Weekends included. I'm about to go right now. This is very important to me and I want to be a very different person when I'm 26. I have allowed myself to live in this comfortable environment on the terms I would use it to make myself a better person, and in some ways I have been successful at that over the last year, but now is a time to take it to the next level.
Today is day four.
