Since my last post I have stuck to my guns and have resisted every opportunity to down a nice, cold, refreshing diet coke.  The thought of it just makes my mouth water but seriously, I haven’t had any.  I swear on my eyes.  It is for this reason, I believe, that I have developed several major headaches.  It has been about 18 days since my last soda and of those 18 days, I have probably had about 15 big headaches.  This is probably just a sign that I was drinking entirely too many sodas each day so I am really waiting for my body to get used to the fact that the sweet sweet taste of diet coke will no longer be part of my every day routine.   Advil has become my best friend recently and I have been drinking a ton of water to stay hydrated so I think that the headaches will cease soon.  On another note, a couple weeks ago my husband and I decided to start checking out area parks and hiking trails and we have found some pretty awesome places.  We have gone to South Mountain, Crowders Mountain and Latta Plantation which each have some very beautiful hiking trails and offer a great deal of variety.  South Mountain has some amazing waterfall trails and we took the 1.5 mile trail with our dog that ran along a great creek.  The other weekend we visited Latta Plantation which had a couple paved and unpaved trails with lake views and just recently we visited Crowders Mountain State Park and we ended up climbing this huge (relative to the south east) mountain side which over looked the surrounding towns and even down to Charlotte.  That trail ended up being about 4 miles long (thanks Nike+) and I am still sore from it!  I have enjoyed the hikes a great deal – taking photos and giving the dog some exercise while spending some quality husband/wife time have been wonderful.

So far, I have not lost weight to the tune of 1lb/week but I am working on it.  January was hard because it was filled with freezing temperatures, my comps exam and the start of a new year at work.  I think it will be easier for me to get going in February now that it is warming up a little bit and now that I have a daily morning routine.  Just have to kick these headaches and I will be good to go

Happy early Valentines day!

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I have known this for a very long time but just ignored it because I L-O-V-E soda, especially Diet Coke.  Anyways – I am ready to acknowledge that soda = liquid evil.  Absolutely nothing about soda (especially diet coke) is good for you in fact, I think most of it is bad for you.  I am writting about it because I am almost finished with my last soda.  Yep, sitting right next to me is a large wendy’s cup filled with ice and liquid evil.  I am going to finish this cup slowly and love every second of it because it will be my last.  I really think I can attribute a great deal of this weight gain back to soda.  I don’t even like it because of the way it tastes – honestly, it’s the fizziness.  I wish that they had seltzer water everywhere because I would MUCH rather drink that rather that cola.  Soda also has a gross amount of sodium so maybe not drinking it anymore will help with water retention and my ever present bloaty feeling.

K, just took my last sip.  It’s over.  Water from here on out … water and seltzer water.  maybe some coffee too here and there.  You have to take baby steps.

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