I caught something on the news earlier about a tax in New York that is taxing obesity by levying a tax of 15 - 18% on sodas. WTF? I knew that they would get around to it. Me and my mom talked years ago about when the ciggarettes were no longer bringing in the bucks for them they would go after junk food and lo and behold here we are! The New York “sugar sweetened beverage tax” that is aimed at keeping people from getting fat. The guy on the TV said something about justifying this with “If people just drink one less soda….” And while they said something about taxing people for going to the gym (talk about taxing you twice!), they said that children don’t go to the gym, so they need to tax soda so the kids won’t drink so much soda, which is bad for them.

Wait…

My efforts to diet have been horribly derailed by the fact that I keep having huge plates of food sent over here from my brother’s place. I am going to need to just flat stop eating the food when it is sent over, since politely asking not to have plates for me sent over does not seem to work.

I’ve gained back nearly 10 pounds over the last couple of months, and am going to just have to put my foot down and not gain back more. I should have lost another 10 pounds, not gained it back.

I’m going on a serious diet and not letting anyone’s good intentions derail it again.

Okay, so I tried to be good for leading up to Thanksgiving, but it didn’t matter anyway since I only got one small plate of food that day. Looong story, basically I only got a little at brother’s house because I had already asked my dad to bring me a place from my sister’s house when he went down there. My dad and sister didn’t bring me anything from her place, so I ended up with my actual dinner being a few tablespoons of turkey and a little of the side trimmings, plus a turkey pot pie it tossed in oven when dad got home.

Guess the turkey pot pie was likely 400 calories though, huh?

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I have decided that I am going to see if I can’t stick to the Slim Fast diet plan this week leading up to Thanksgiving. I don’t expect to feel much like eating anything for Thanksgiving, but if I do end up eating something, or just eating stuff that is really high in calories, I don’t want to have that mess up what weight loss I have achieved.

So, for the next just shy of a week I am going to be very good and not overload on stuff that I know I really should not be eating.

They say that if you stick with something for long enough that it gets to be a habit and you will do it without thinking about it. I’m going to try that with exercise. I had tried it before, but then stuff happened and I was not able to get in the time to exercise and ended up not getting back into the routine.

I think it is time that I got back into the routine of exercising once again. It’s not easy for me, and I don’t mean to say that exercising itself is hard - it is a mental thing.

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I’ve been wanting to get more exercise, and I am about to get a lot more exercise. I have a fireplace installed in the house now, which means that I get to have the fun of getting firewood. Oh joy. I certainly can’t say it is my favorite thing in the world, particularly not at temperatures anywhere from 30 degrees F to -30 degrees F, but it is a good way to stay in shape and loose weight.

My weight has hit another plateau. It has been holding at between 183 and 187, thankfully more often toward 183 than 187, but it is still highly annoying every time I step on the scale and it is over 185. I just remind myself that it wasn’t that long ago that it was up at the all-time high of 220 and that I’ve had a maintainable 35 pound weight loss. That means I can achieve another maintainable 35 pound loss and one of these days will be complaining because my weight has hit a plateau at 150… then a plateau at 115.

Okay, so the diet is not going to well with the leftover Halloween candy that is laying all around the house. It is more than a little annoying, having stress that is my weakness, and having massive amounts of stress at the moment, but…. I have a fireplace to install, so as long as I can make myself listen to a new rule I am going to make that there is to be no eating in the office, I should be safe from the snack attacks while I am working.