Required as in "the amount". It's a lot of water. She couldn't do it all. Especially not the salt water. But that was her.
I understand the instant gratification. What do they say? Takes 20 days to form a habit? Baby steps. Way back when I started cutting foods that were no good from my diet, I didn't do it all at once. First it was drinking anything other than water with a meal (excluding wine or a cocktail - I don't care what age or what weight I am, I will always imbibe - albeit responsibly). No iced tea, no coke, no coffee, plain old water with lemon. Every time, everywhere, with everything. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Then I started cutting out most fried foods, fast food, etc. When you go to eat, make better choices. An a Ceasar salad is not a better choice by the way. ;) A garden salad with oil & vinegar is a better choice. With exercise, what they say is true ... you need to fit your life around your exercise time, not fit your exercise time into your life, because it'll never happen. People make investment decisions to make their money grow, but they don't make an investment in their health. What good is the money you'll have at 65 when you won't be healthy or alive to enjoy it? I can go on and on. Obviously you have started something. Key will be to not get discouraged. How many people in your life right now, LIVE in PERSON people that you see all the time can support you with this? Get you to go on walks? Exercise? Join you in eating well? Because if you can't get the whole house on board Charlie, you might not make it again. And I'm not being pessimistic, just realistic. When Charles was told to cut out sugar, I did it too. Because it wasn't fair for me to have high sugar foods when he couldn't. He would of been too tempted. Plus it's good for me anyway. Get your family on board. Make it fun. Clean out the house pantry. This is a BIG one. THROW OUT / GIVE AWAY / WHATEVER every scrap of food, canned boxed, frozen, fresh that does not fit a "healthy diet". Then only buy stuff that a) you read the labels on. Be careful of hidden sodium, sugars, flours. b) are good for you! If it's got over 5 grams of sugar, it's not allowed in our house. We try to buy only whole grain foods, but ocassionally we get a few with enriched wheat flour. I have to be a teeny bit flexible there for Charles' sake. Fresh or frozen veggies. NEVER iceberg. Lots of GREEN GREEN. No corn unless it's whole grain tortillas for a treat with 1g sugar salsa... I can go on and on and on ... and many of you are probably tired of my soapbox ;) but CHARLIE! you can do it! :D I'm sure there's some others here that can pipe in with some tips to keep you going! :D On 2/11/08, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is it extreme? yes. it pretty much blows. i'd love a huge greasy > burger right about now. but i think that in 8 days, i'll be so happy > to chew on solid food that carrots and celery and good stuff will be > VERY welcome :) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:253926 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
