Weight loss challenge, anybody else want to join me?

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

Guys...

I kind of ditched on being serious about doing this...I have a tendency to over-eat when I'm stressed, and there's been a LOT of stress around here in the last 4 or 5 months.

Anyways, I made a promise to myself about a month ago to stop drinking soda cold turkey. Ooooohhhhh...quit drinking soda...big deal, huh? Well, I probably drank 5 or 6 a day, at LEAST. Some days, it would be all I drank except for coffee. Since around the same time, I have made a very small effort to cut back portion sizing and late night snacking.

I've lost almost 10 pounds, without really doing anything except trying not to get fatter.

Thats awesome Jake, getting rid of the soda has many more health benefits than simply weight as well. Back in 2004 I cut out all soda from my diet, and believe it or not, I was drinking 16 cans of mountain dew a day!!!! I was getting severe stomache pains, I cut out the soda and have been fine ever since. When I was a smoker I was a 3 pack a day smoker along with a tin of chew a day, needless to say, when I get addicted to things, I fall in hard. For a long long time my diet consisted of nothing more than tobacco and mountain dew. No good at all. Now a few years later and I am in the best health of my life doing things I couldnt have done at 18 and it sure feels good. I am teaching my youngest how to ride a bike, and to be able to run alongside her all day long and not get winded is an amazing feeling.

And for the record, I allow myself one root beer float a year, otherwise no soda. My liquid intake is water or milk, or gatorade, nothing more, no soda and no alcohol at all.

Jeff