Hanker for a Hunk of Cheese

Still at 278.  Thats okay.  I think 15 pounds in my first week is a good start.  Tomorrow is the kids' first day back at school so I might try to start exercising.  That should help me maximize this diet experiment.  I wanted to start exercising this week, but there were recommendations against it.  It's probably best that I didn't.  If I had just finished a hard workout then had to drink a glass of "Turn the beet around" juice I probably would have laid down in traffic.  I think this week I'll be much more prepared.

Yesterday was interesting.  I can't tell if it was encouraging or discouraging.  I was feeling kinda good about myself.  I just got a new job, I'm down 15 pounds, things are looking up.  We decided (and by "we" I mean "my wife and kids" decided) that we would celebrate the end of summer by going to Soak City water park.  Here's where I get lost as to whether it was an encouraging or discouraging day.  There were all kinds of people there; some of them made me feel down right skinny, others made me want to swim with a tee-shirt on.   At lunch time I was sitting around the picnic table drinking my smuggled in juice (no outside food or drinks!) when this guy walks by and I guarantee at least one of his parents performs at Sea-World.  I thought to myself, "Why in the name of Bob's Big Boy am I sneaking juice into a water park?  Look at that guy!  I'm nowhere near that big.  I can eat some people food if I want."  I didn't.  But that was the closest I've been to cheating.  The kids shared a slice of cheese pizza.  I shamelessly held that pizza up and smelled half the flavor right off it.  Then I pinched the crust just a little bit so I could feel if it was crunchy or chewy.  It was good, people.  You know how you can just tell when it's good pizza?  It was good.  That was like a vacation.  I closed my eyes and everything.  Then I came back to reality, put it down and drank my contraband kale drippings.


Yesterdays juices were.. whatever.

Something green.

Something orangish.  Carrot I think.

Oh! I did have some fresh orange juice and it was awesome! But, be careful!  You can't have too much of that because it might bring you some happiness then your diet won't work-- apparently.

artist rendering of me in a cowboy hat.