Going Cold Turkey

I’m not losing any weight.

I feel better, the fasting is going well, but the weight is stubbornly not coming off. I listened to some fasting YouTube videos while puzzling yesterday to see if I’d soak up any motivation or be inspired to weight loss excellence. I randomly picked this video to start.

I was, happily and probably divinely, inspired. There’s a good discussion about diet soda during the video. I don’t drink a lot of diet soda, but I drink enough to believe it’s sabotaging my weight loss. I was reminded (why can’t I just remember this??) that every time I have great success with weight loss, one of the major factors is that I drink nothing but water.

So, friends, I have one 2-liter bottle of Diet Mt Dew in the fridge, and 1 liter of Black Cherry flavored water. When those are gone, I’m going cold turkey on the drinks with artificial sweeteners and will drink nothing but water going forward. I don’t drink much of anything else anyway, so toughing it out through the diet soda withdrawal shouldn’t be too bad. It’s primarily just breaking the HABIT of when I’d rather drink soda than water. I can’t deny that diet soda triggers my appetite, and I suspect it’s been the culprit in my stubbornly high blood pressure, so I’m eagerly anticipating good results.

Pray for me!