Wow what a day yesterday turned out to be. I knew it would be tough. Driving for 8 hours without something to nibble on most of the way took some real will power. I have always had a bad habit of needing something to munch on while I drive. It was almost torturous at times yesterday. Chewing gum helped quite a bit and nibbling on ice helped some but not as much as I wanted it too. But I made it through and arrived in King of Prussia at a fairly decent hour.
Then the evening of laying around doing nothing caught up with me and I almost cracked. That was the worst of it I believe. I really wanted to eat and almost gave in. I finally got the idea of heating up a can of V8 juice and eating it like tomato soup. That did seem to help quite a bit. I had bought a box of K-cup herbal decaf teas but I am just not much of a fan of herbal tea. I like good old fashioned black tea but it was hot and helped. I did manage to figure out yesterday that the spicy V8 will get me by for my cravings for something spicy. It was good to drink one of those yesterday while I was travelling.
Billboards along the highway were tough. I never noticed before just how many of those things are food related. I was able to distract myself quite a bit of the time with operating on my radios and made several cool contacts around the world. It helps to pass the time and keeps my mind away from wandering around to the topic of food and being hungry.
I can tell the diet is having the desired effect though. I can see parts of my anatomy that I have not seen in quite a while. I'm talking about my feet, get your minds out of the gutter. LOL I looked at myself in the mirror this morning and could definetly tell that the abdomin region is shrinking. I just hope I can keep my pants up for the next week and a half. I don't have any smaller ones with me.
That just made me think about something. Will I have to buy clothes in stages as I go down or will I be able to get by with the bigger clothes and just look a bit frumpy for a while? I plan on keeping one pair of my jeans after I shrink down to use a clothes hamper for my new clothes when I am out on the road.
Today I will be working with my hands and not so much with my mind so I should be able to get thru the day a bit easier. I won't really have time for my mind to wander as it often does when I am just programming or working with the computer. Physical activity, installing and wiring up some robots and conveyors will keep my mind off dwelling on the food and hunger aspects of this diet. So I am hoping for a bit of an easier time with getting thru another day. I am also hoping I am getting to the peak of the hump and the hump is not just growing higher and higher. I would like to get over the hump and have this get a little easier each day, but just getting to the top of the hump would be good enough for today. Going over it tomorrow would work just fine.
It is time to get ready for work and go out to face the challenges for the day. I will be looking forward to this being a better day. I hope yours is a good one too. Bye for now. George
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