In the third week of January, a lot of people will have left their resolutions for the new year in tatters or more specifically, in the crumpled wrapper of a bacon cheeseburger. It is because of this that I want to celebrate another achievement as I work toward my goal of hitting 145 pounds this year: I have again dodged copious numbers of donuts.
Yesterday boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts were left in the kitchen area at work. I already had a small advantage in that I don’t like Krispy Kreme donuts–they are light but also almost sickly sweet with a heavy and kind of gross glaze. Still, in times past I would have gobbled up one or two without any thought. Coworkers were chowing down up to three (or more) each.
But I had none.
I was later informed that there were also boxes of the fancy ones, filled with jelly and such and probably 500 calories each. Those would have been more tempting but I’m pretty sure I would have resisted.
Next week I’m going to cut out all gratuitous snacking. Almost all snacking is gratuitous. I’ve done this before and I think this, with regular exercise, is essential to the weight loss.
I’ll probably be on the treadmill again this weekend but there is perhaps a slim hope that the last of the snow will be gone from the trails around Burnaby Lake. But I doubt it.
My weight on January 1 was 165.9 pounds. Today it’s 164.2 pounds. Losing 1.7 pounds in 24 days isn’t exactly wasting away, but it’s a start. I will continue to dodge donuts.
