28 Jan, 2010
150/PPE
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 bummer. I haven’t been out running, fearing I’ll make it worse, which puts me in a miserable mood.
Also, I drank on Tuesday night. Nothing extreme–I had two drinks over dinner. The fact is that I was just getting really angry at myself for sticking to a program that had outlived it’s usefulness for me. I think I have learned some valuable things:
- In spite of my alcoholic lineage, I myself am definitely not an alcoholic.
- Booze does not affect my weight as much as I hoped/feared it did.
- Drinking has a large impact on my sleep.
- Limited drinking affects my overall moodiness is a positive way.
I didn’t think I needed any more data with regard to these findings. Another reason I decided to have those drinks is because I’m anxious to start living what I believe will be my new approach to drinking. I want to see that I won’t go back to my auto-drinking old ways. I still plan not to drink over the weekend, not for the sake of this project, but because I hope in the future to drink only once or twice a week.
All in all, three drinks during the entire month is more success than failure. Especially considering how much I generally suck at depriving myself of anything.
Oh, one more thing. In other news, I just scheduled my first personal training session. How long have I been yammering about wanting to do it? I mean, OK, it’s expensive, but I have a little money saved for something special, and what could possibly be a better gift to myself? And seriously, I can’t stand this back pain. If I can protect myself from future occurrences with some strength training, I’ve got to try. I’ll let you know how it goes.
