Starting Weight - 164.4
Goal Weight by the end of January 2015 - 155
Here's a great article I read in GQ recently about the harmful effects of sugar (see No. 7).
We're off to the races!
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
It Starts
Turkish: "You take sugar?"
Brick Top: "No thanks Turkish. I'm sweet enough."
I know, New Year's Eve. What a cliche time to make a resolution. But this is something I've been thinking about for quite a while now.
I have an addiction, an overwhelming, all-consuming addiction, and that is sugar. I crave sweets - those chocolate marzipan Ritter's bars, muffins and cookies from the bakery down the street from my office, Ben & Jerry's (oh, Ben & Jerry's!), the baklava that one of my firm's clients brings in regularly for reasons I know not why.
I justify eating them to myself too. Oh, I've had a bad day, it's just this one time - I even go so far as to tell myself that I'm supporting local small businesses with my frequent purchases of blackberry cardamom muffins from the bakery down the street.
The problem is that every time after I treat myself, I am filled with self-loathing, a sense of defeat, and the paranoid feeling of actually being able to hear myself gaining weight. Now, I should add here that I am by no means a heavy person. I'm actually in pretty good shape for someone who has a seven-month-old and a full-time job. But I'm not happy with how I look. And I know that sugar causes much deeper problems than weight gain - cavities, diabetes and the like.
So here is my pledge for the next month - I will abstain from sweets. (UNLESS they are sweets that my sister-in-law has prepared, because she is a boss in the kitchen and makes possibly the best baked goods I have ever consumed. But, I can vouch for the fact that she uses all organic ingredients and they are made with love.)
At the end of January, I'll re-evaluate and see where we are. But I'd like to use this blog as a personal accountability tool, and perhaps it will motivate me to succeed where I have previously failed.
Brick Top: "No thanks Turkish. I'm sweet enough."
I know, New Year's Eve. What a cliche time to make a resolution. But this is something I've been thinking about for quite a while now.
I have an addiction, an overwhelming, all-consuming addiction, and that is sugar. I crave sweets - those chocolate marzipan Ritter's bars, muffins and cookies from the bakery down the street from my office, Ben & Jerry's (oh, Ben & Jerry's!), the baklava that one of my firm's clients brings in regularly for reasons I know not why.
I justify eating them to myself too. Oh, I've had a bad day, it's just this one time - I even go so far as to tell myself that I'm supporting local small businesses with my frequent purchases of blackberry cardamom muffins from the bakery down the street.
The problem is that every time after I treat myself, I am filled with self-loathing, a sense of defeat, and the paranoid feeling of actually being able to hear myself gaining weight. Now, I should add here that I am by no means a heavy person. I'm actually in pretty good shape for someone who has a seven-month-old and a full-time job. But I'm not happy with how I look. And I know that sugar causes much deeper problems than weight gain - cavities, diabetes and the like.
So here is my pledge for the next month - I will abstain from sweets. (UNLESS they are sweets that my sister-in-law has prepared, because she is a boss in the kitchen and makes possibly the best baked goods I have ever consumed. But, I can vouch for the fact that she uses all organic ingredients and they are made with love.)
At the end of January, I'll re-evaluate and see where we are. But I'd like to use this blog as a personal accountability tool, and perhaps it will motivate me to succeed where I have previously failed.
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