I Quit… Again!

I came across this today (http://www.nosdiet.com) and found it to be entertaining if nothing else.  The premise is No Snacks, No Sweets, No Seconds. (get it – No “S”…).  Admittedly I thought of something else when I saw the title that involved a four letter word – which after reading more, I think still fits.

For the most part, this is what I have been doing since the beginning of the month (June, 2010).  I plan to read more from the site – I found the authors candor to be very refreshing.

My favorite quote from his page so far:

Is there any scientific evidence that this diet works?

Absolutely none. But I’m not aware that I have any competition in this regard.

Posted from Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

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I’ve been losing weight recently (last week weeks) but for the most part – I have considered it water weight.  This morning – for the first time in over 5 years (maybe much longer) I weighed in at less than 280 lbs.  I know I still have a very very long road ahead of me, but still I’m happy with todays weigh in.

When I started IQA – I thought the blog would give me the extra motivation I needed to lose weight – it didn’t.  Before IQA – I tried cycling – I rode my bike three times a week when my commute to work was just under 20 miles each way!  I did that for months even in the Phoenix 110 degrees everyday for months summer and In 2007, I even completed a 735 mile ride from here to Texas, taking 11 days.  I titled the ride “D-Tour” (thanks goes to Aaron Delong for the title).  Still, I never got below 280 lbs.

What’s changed?  I don’t know… I don’t know that anything has changed… I don’t know if this is short term… I don’t know if I will quit again.  Regardless – this morning I looked at the scale and it read 279.6 lbs.  And I haven’t been under 280 lbs in a very very long time.

Posted from Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

I’ve been focusing on my health for the last couple of weeks – and I’ve seen some progress but today I noticed something has changed.  I wish I could say it was that my pants were loose or my belt was too big – or something great like that but its something different than an external change.  Something internal is happening here.

I had a vendor meeting over lunch today – which happens a few times a month in my field.  Most of the time, its at a restaurant where there are always healthly options (for me to ignore) – but today it was an in-house lunch meeting and the vendor brought pizza.  Ugghhh… I can’t eat pizza and I know it but even that fact and my recognition of that fact isn’t the change I’m talking about.

I went downstairs and purchased a salad from the cafe – that’s right I paid for food when free food was available -But even that isn’t what caused me to write a post.  What surprised me was my reaction to the pizza.  Before, I would have either A) eaten the pizza and felt guilty later OR B) Gotten a salad from downstairs while I wished I was eating pizza.

You may think – ok, Dale – you picked B.  But that is not the case.  I saw the pizza – and was immediately put off.  Almost like one of those skinny health nuts that turn their nose up at junk food – I smelled the pizza and thought – ugghh, there is no way I’m eating THAT!

My tastes seem to have changed – if only for this single meal.  I’m going to take it as a win – if only for this single meal.

Posted from Phoenix, Arizona, United States.