Sunday, September 28, 2003

It’s Sunday evening. It’s been four weeks since the afternoon that I decided to get back in shape. Since then, I’ve said no to soda, I’ve gone more easy on the tortillas, and I’ve been more careful on what I consume. Wish I had been told before that the 12 tortillas (720 calories) I ate per-sitting were more than 1/3 of the 2,000 calories one should have a day! If I were a pig and ate only tortillas, 12 tortillas would have been alright. But the tortillas came with Mexican cheese (300+ calories), cream (100+ calories), and of course, the main dish. How many calories in the main dish? I better not do the math!

Sometimes it’s very hard to say no to a cold soda. Specially when it has been standing in front of me, water still dripping from it, waiting for me to take a sip. When it’s not the drinks it’s the main dish itself. For example, right now my mother is cooking pechugas empanizadas (fried chicken breast covered with powdered bread). It’s going to be hard going to sleep without having a bite. I’ll probably give in to my desires. I’m sure it’ll help that I’ll shake my head before taking the first bite, as an act of self-reprimand. Riiight. 🙂

In addition to changing my eating habits, I also brought back the jogging days. I jog on days that I don’t go to CSUN or play soccer. Because I hate jogging, I remind myself while jogging how having had an extra serving is not worth the extra effort I must put into ridding my system of the calories that came with that serving too many!

The result? I’ve lost more than ten pounds. To be frank, I could almost swear that someone adjusts the weight-scale before I get on it. The scale reports a lesser number each time I step on it, but my body looks the same to me. I hope those pounds are not being taken from… ::looks:: K, they aren’t. 🙂 Still got it, baby! Or should I say, still got them? After all, every human being has two of them. Think cheeks… butt-cheeks. Hehe.

I said I’d not drink soda until the year 2004. That’s three more months. Three months of wondering what Sprite ReMix tastes like. Nice… very nice. 🙁 Have you had one?

Mmm, let me go check on them pechugas…

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