Kenn's Get Fit Stark Week 1

I have been on my liquid diet for a week now. I hate the chocolate flavored shakes. I don’t think I can drink another one of those. I traded them in for different flavors. Now to sum it up my first week in one word: TOUGH. You don’t realize how much you eat or how much you enjoy eating it until your can’t anymore!

I eat out of habit, like having a bowl of cereal every night or eating all the meatballs from my family’s Spaghetti-Os, so it’s taking a lot of will power to break those habits. It’s not that bad during the week because I’m so busy with work and my kids’ activities, but the weekend was where it got a little hairy.

I’ve got three boys who love to eat and you can’t believe how tough it is to just sit there and watch them eat. Saturday, they wanted French toast and pancakes for breakfast. The smell was intoxicating! Stacks of pancakes and plates of French toast smothered in melted butter and warm syrup. I’m starting to drool now just thinking about it. It was hard to resist, but I persevered.

Saturday night I played cards with a few buddies. Not even thinking about it, I accidentally put two potato chips in my mouth. Luckily I realized what I did and promptly spit them back out, but the taste went a long way. Maybe this could be my new diet trick… I won some money on top of it, so I’d call it a pretty successful night. Good thing too, because I knew the day to come would be the toughest.

Sundays, football, and food just go hand in hand together. Now it’s just Sundays and football for me. No food. Football just isn’t the same without food and beverages. That’s all I can really say about it. To make matters worse, I had to prepare lunch AND dinner for my family. Did you know how much food you can eat while preparing a meal? Well you won’t until you have to stop. No little tastes here or there, no matter how good it smells or looks.

This first week was certainly tough, and I have a long road ahead of me. When I started, I was starving all the time and was getting headaches from not eating, but thankfully those have gone away and I’m not quite as hungry all the time. They say it takes three weeks to break one habit and develop a new one. We’ll see about that. Maybe I’ll just start getting tastes of things then spitting them out instead to help me get through.