Lent again

Lent starts again tomorrow, and once again I find myself wanting to try giving something up for "40 days and 40 nights." Although I'm completely against religion, I do like the idea of testing yourself and restricting your intake of something that might give you pleasure but isn't necessarily good for your "soul" (although I'm for sure not giving up what the dude in the movie did, f-u-c-k that [pun intended]).

Last year I gave up beer for a couple months. It wasn't that bad. I still allowed myself some alcohol but the beer restriction did drastically cut down my drinking. So I was trying to think of what to do this time around. I'm really working on getting back into weight loss. I've kinda stopped working on weight loss; I'm still at my lowest weight in a long time and haven't gained anything, but haven't really lost anything in a couple months.

So here we go. I've decided to give up beer again. But that didn't seem to be enough. I want to go big this year. So along with beer, I'm going to cut red meat and chocolate from my diet until Easter. Hopefully that should give me the kick in the ass I need.

Dangers of blogging

As a history buff, it should have occurred to me earlier that one of the dangers of blogging is reporting on an event before all the details are in. Take for example, my last post.

Now I can't say for 100% certain that what I had was food poisoning, and I further can't be sure that if it was, I got it from my dinner. But we'll just say that I had quite a terrible Saturday and spent the day in bed, eating a bit of rice, apple and toast, along with some VitaminWater and club soda. By my count, I ate the equivalent of 15 WeightWatchers Points all day; I'm supposed to eat 39. And I won't be eating a burger for a while. Or returning to The Counter.

On the bright side (and as Monty Python says, "Always look on the bright side of life."), I did drop 4 pounds. So I've got that going for me. Which is nice.