OK, it started when my wife and I stopped at the Gap Outlet to pick up a few items of clothing just before Thanksgiving. I found a some good deals on some badly needed jeans and simply purchased my size, or what I thought was my size without even trying them on. When we got home I had a "duh" moment as they simply did not fit. I complain to my wife that they should fit as they are "my size", so they must be defective. Must be why they are selling at the "outlet" store, they must be defectivly labled. My wife looks at me curiously and says, "Honey, they are sized right, you are just gaining a bit of weight".
Yeah, in the back of my mind, I realized this was the case but I just didn't want to admit it. I had been about 204 lbs when I joined the Navy in 1996 and was literally in the best shape of my life at the time. Now, I was pushing 232 and contemplating the thought of returning the jeans for a larger size. Hell no I thought, so I set them on top of my dresser with the lofty goal of being able to fit into them shortly.
About a week later, after having walked past those crotch huggers a dozen or so times, I received and email from a friend which consisted of an article by a guy named Tim O'Shea that blames the sugar industry and the drug companies for all the evil in the world. It seemed a little extreme at the time and normally I would have just sent it into computer limbo with a flick of the mouse button, (did I tell you it is super long too) but in the back of my mind, I knew I just had to read it. So I read how we are all addicted to sugar and don't even know it, and how sugar is going to cause the earth to come off its axis and fly into the sun :-) However, at the end of the article it states:
I CAN QUIT ANY TIME
That's what everyone addicted to anything for the past 300 years has said. So do it. If you think you aren't addicted to white sugar, prove it. For 48 hours. Not only cokes, high fructose corn syrup fruit drinks, donuts and ice cream, but condiments, sauces, and aspartame drinks as well. 48 hours. Meet the monkey.
So I took up that challenge. No big deal I thought, I could do this for a week or so....
It was a bit harder than I imagined, but not nearly as difficult as the article made it out to be. However, what really surprised me was that by the end of that first week, I had literally dropped 4 pounds and I had a light bulb moment. Hey, at this rate, I can fit into those jeans by Christmas!
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