Weigh in this morning was I guess you'd say disappointing, still at 105. It might have been half a kg drop, as the scales aren't very accurate, and that needle is almost at 104 and I definitely feel a little lighter overall. Perhaps it means the weight stabilised but I still lost some size? It's a slightly early cheat day which will probably explain it too. I guess my fear would be seeing 106 next weekend, as I'll be cheating today, then having a cheat meal/afternoon on Sunday, which really messes up a good diet week. It will be an interesting experience I guess, as seeing 104 on that day would be a surprise. I'll aim to be as good as I can outside those cheat days, the weight will look after itself.
I want to get to two different drinks. One is green tea. Tim says to get plenty of this in your system, so I swapped out coffee for green tea, and I like it. Firstly, it has enough taste that you don't need milk and sugar to make it "right" (I'm talking cheap tea vs cheap coffee BTW). But I did a little more reading yesterday and it is successfully used as a weight loss tool on it's own. There are claims out there that people have finally lost weight after trying different things, just by swapping green tea into their diet. Studies also showed dangerous side effects at higher doses, but nothing under 10 cups a day would be considered dangerous (not that I could stomach that much, nor would the caffeine be good). I'm having 3-4 cups a day anyway, and I see it as an important part of the overall diet idea.
Other drinks are alcohol. It's cheat day (and birthday) today, so it was obvious to get out a few of my once a week beers. I bought these beers quite a while ago now, but admittedly I bought 2 cartons (30 can cartons) at the time. I was drinking pretty heavy before this last month, and found myself going through about 2/3rd of these things a week, so 20 cans. 4 on Thursday/Friday each, 5 or 6 on Saturday/Sunday each, with the occasional other day like Tuesday/Wednesday in the mix too. Making that far far worse, was I'd usually have 1/3 a bottle of wine those nights, and also a bourbon or two chaser after the beers dried up. I guess the news is I made the decision to folow the diet 25 days ago, and that included one day a week beers, and I remember the carton was already half empty, so around 13-15 beers left. So in 25 days I might have gone through 70 beers, but instead I'm on around 10 (will be 13/14 by tonight). Bourbon is similar, going through probably averaging 1.5 bottles every two weeks. A bourbon bottle I opened before the diet is still almost 1/2 full. So that's like 2.5 bottles of bourbon down to 0.6 on this diet. Wine hasn't changed much, and has probably actually gone up given I have one night where I allow 4 glasses, and have 2 glasses 4 nights a week. But I'm still extremely happy with my progress here, especially on our budget. To add this up, 25 days of alcohol used to cost me $93 worth of beer, $70 worth of bourbon plus wine, has now cost me $17 worth of beer and $16 worth of bourbon. Not to mention, I'm buying cheaper red wines for myself, than white wines for the wife and me, so even wine budget has gone down a lot. That's $130 saving in less than a month, and no doubt even more important for my body and mind.
Well, it's a weird weekend ahead, with no cheat day, non cheat day Saturday and then cheat meal Sunday. I feel this will be challenging for some reason, so I'm going to work hard and make sure my next blog says I didn't cheat any more than planned, and that I'm on the way to having a solid diet week.
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