Hello all! Well, it's another day down. A tough one with the cold worse, but I got out to see my horse and got a bit of riding in. Decided to take it easy tomorrow and not go out before work. That is tough in the best of times. It's just that it gives me a lift to see her and makes being in the hated office so much easier. I did NOT go to the party though and that was so much fun last year. We rode bareback and drunk and I fell off twice, last year that is. This year was so different. Even with the cold I would have drank but my resolve to get healthy and away from the beer was strong enough. I keep thinking it's been weeks since I had a beer and it's only five days!!! 
Can you believe it? I sound like some gd'd alcoholic. Habit, habit, it's become a habit, to go out with people after work for beers and I guess I didn't think about just how often that was becoming. Scary thought. Think of all the calories I can save by not drinking! Yowzah! Now that IS money in the bank!!!Well, I made the vegetable juice today but put too much daikon radish in it and it was strong! Had to hold my nose drinking it but got most of it down. Tomorrow I'll make it easy with just carrots. It's so sweet then, touch of lemon juice.
Well, I've been off sugar for nearly two weeks and eating healthy for five days now. I keep looking in the mirror expecting to see some kind of miracle and guess what?! I don't see any difference!!
Ah, like...DUH!?!?! But, but, I've been so good! 
This is the hard part, when I always throw in the towel. I guess it's because it IS so hard, but I am going to try to keep going. Just think of the kick I would get from not having an enormous roll around my waist, not having to think if my shirt tops were hiding it well enough, not to have to wonder if I was doing a muffin top over my pants. Sigh. Yes, I MUST carry on! 2007 has GOT to be the year I get so buff I will look 20 years younger than my age....OK...a good 10 at least. So, waffling over, I now stand at:
Day 15 crunches completed
Day 13 no sugar completed
Day 5 fresh vegetable juice completed
Day 5 no alcohol completed
No pauses yet taken
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sweet -- good going on that exercise and the stretches. What kind of stretches are we talking here, by the way? Heh, lot of people around. Always happens after holidays....
CB -- Good luck on your challenges!
jolly -- Excellent work, jolly!
My cold was so bad today I thought I would just go see my horse and not get on. Then I thought I'd just walk around, then I ended up riding, and later felt much better. It must have been the effect of the endorphins or something because later I was dead, but I went home and got a nap. Feel much better now, thanks! Keep up the good work! 
Pink -- You're doing a bit of a stealth there, aren't you? Looking fine, looking fine!
dj -- I'm hoping I'm on the mend, though I think I still may get a bit worse. Hard staying down. Got two full days of work ahead of me again before the weekend. Ah, well, at least it will be a short week. You're looking good again. What do you do that has you up at 2:30?!?!? That is insane! I think I would just stay awake and try to sleep in the day but I guess that's not doable, eh? Hang in there!
I wish I had gotten out to the barn. I was just feeling so crabby, and stayed late putzing, that I just came home to relax with the hounds. Poor choice, I know.
sorry. I hope everyone had a great day. See you later 
Anyhow, I went before work, despite my cold, despite the cold. Jogged 3K and did some weights and the crunches. Had some super sweet carrot juice this morning, none of that radish in it today. Wow, was it good! So, I'm now at:
Excellent stuff! 
Good for you and good luck! 
Wow, what a temptation your work must be, or no? I don't know how you do it, the work and resisting the sugar pull. You're made of tough stuff! 
Come in and post! 
You deserve that pat on the back. Yes, our schedules sound crazy, however, we do what we have to do I guess. After a while it actually starts to seem somewhat normal.
