29 Jan, 2010
Posted by: joymanning In: Personal Prohibition Experiment.| Weigh In| Working out
28 days down/3 days to go
OK, this is officially the end of week four. So here’s the wrap up:
Weight: down 1 pound from last last week, 4 pounds from January 1. Some of that is the dramatic reduction in booze, but some of it is a natural part of returning to a normal schedule, post [...]
28 Jan, 2010
Posted by: joymanning In: Personal Prohibition Experiment.| Weigh In| Working out
27 days down/4 days to go
You may have noticed I didn’t post yesterday. First of all, I have an extremely unpleasant and mysterious back pain that I told you about on Tuesday. It’s still here, giving me grief, and, worst of all, keeping me out of my desk chair. Sitting hurts the most. It’s a [...]
25 days down/6 days to go
Yesterday was a busy day. In the morning, I filed two pieces that were due, then I made my way to Center City in the driving sideways rain to meet a friend for lunch. At home, I drank a cup tea, organized my thoughts, and then dug into researching markets [...]
24 days down/7 days to go
One week remains. If I ever do this again, I’m not choosing a month with five weekends. What was I thinking? That said, the weekend wasn’t bad or anything. I was home all weekend, working, cooking, reading, watching TV–all my favorite weekend activities. This week I actually made a meal [...]
23 days down/8 days to go
Huh. Well there it is. 14-something. I haven’t logged a weight in the 140s since November 5. But that was an anomalous blip. The last time I spent some time in the 140s was September, and I haven’t seen 148 since the summer.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea [...]
22 days down/9 days to go
How about that? Days to go in the single digits!
I have another insight as to why I enjoy drinking. Drinking helps me stay out of my brain’s sub-basement. It’s a dark dusty room of my mental house where scary scenes are constantly playing on a creepy old-school projector. This week, [...]
22 Jan, 2010
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21 days down/10 days to go
Here’s the week 3 wrap up.
Weight: Down one pound from last week, 3 since January 1. I have tentatively concluded that alcohol does not have the impact on my weight I had feared/suspected. This also reinforces my belief that our bodies are basically programed to eat the same and weigh [...]
20 days down/11 days to go
So, if you checked in last night, you know I had one glass of wine with dinner. I just got tired of feeling deprived and I sort of felt like I was being really inflexible. So I made a one-glass exception for the sake of my sanity and now [...]
20 Jan, 2010
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Well, here I am in the middle of day 20 and I broke down and had a single glass of really good red wine at a restaurant meal I was very much looking forward to.
I decided before I ordered it that I would have just that one and that I’d get right back on the [...]
19 days down/12 days to go
Yesterday was an easy day–in terms of my prohibition experiment at least. I made another batch of raspberry zinger, this time with a half a lemon squeezed in for extra zing, and happily ate my mushroom risotto and salad.
Today, I have dinner out, and I’m trying to work on maintaining [...]