Cereal Killer

Day: 27
Current Weight: 224.3 lb

So I’ve teetered and tottered between 224 and 225 for the past week. I went to the grocery store today to restock on the healthy ingredients that have helped get this far. Imagine yourself walking down the aisle of the supermarket looking for cereal. Chances are that you’ve already got a brand in your head, or at the very least, you know what kind of cereal you’re looking for. I’m usually the same way, but not this time. Why? I don’t know, I felt like something different.

Once you train your body to start eating healthily (and more importantly not hating yourself for doing so), it’s very easy to get bored. And when you get bored, you use that as an excuse to splurge on the naughty food. So, in order to get out of that rut, I committed myself to buying a different cereal to start the mornings of with. I went down the aisle and actually felt intimidated by all the different kind of cereal there is to buy out there.

Most of the time I just walk in and say, “Cheerios, there it is!” Then, I take a box that hasn’t had the crap beaten out of it (Why do they even put those boxes on the shelf?) and move on down my grocery list. Instead I looked wide-eyed and stupefied at the wall of breakfast foods staring back at me. It seriously looked like I was trying to learn how to read in the middle of the store. Suffice it to say, I’m going back to grocery lists.

The bike seems to be helping a lot. It’s quiet, doesn’t require any electricity to operate, and is really low-impact. The last bit is really important if, like me, you’ve got horrible weak arches on your feet. I think it can be technically called a line if there is no arch in it at all. But I digress.

Even though I’m not losing as rapidly as I was a few weeks ago I’m happy with the progress I’ve been making. I’m still losing weight, albeit the bare minimum to be considered weight loss, but still I’m going the opposite direction that I fear to go. I think that’s another thing that’s essential to weight loss: Optimism. Times are tight and it’s comforting to know that we still have control over some things in life.