I don’t frequently endorse particular products, and you can often find me searching for the generic version of a brand name item, but goddamn is Sprite Zero delicious! It tastes less like a diet soda than Diet Dr. Pepper does, and Diet Dr. Pepper is pretty good.
Sprite Zero is freakin’ delicious!
So what’s this all about?
I’m on a diet. My sister-in-law and brother decided that they wanted to lose some weight, so ACWF and I recommended The South Beach Diet (and I recommend it for anybody else who wants to seriously eat healthy and lose some weight).* ACWF said she would participate for moral support, and I thought, “Why the hell not?” so I started it too.
Kmart and I had a fairly healthy diet already, but alcohol was my downfall, even though my drinking had been cut back to weekends, and my level of intoxication didn’t get above buzzed.** So even though I had been going to the gym regularly, I couldn’t seem to lose any significant weight. I figured a diet wouldn’t hurt me.
So, in one week I’ve lost almost 10 pounds (187 after dinner the night of Easter, 177 this morning) and it wasn’t that hard. I’m hitting the gym at least 3 times a week, usually 4, 5 if I’m lucky, and it feels good.
After an initial weight loss of about 20 pounds the last time we tried this diet, I gained about 7 back over the months. This past holiday season put me 5 pounds shy of what I weighed initially. So I started hitting the gym in earnest again, and I slightly changed my diet. I dropped down to a total net loss of 10 pounds. Not bad. So far, the diet puts me at a total net loss of 20 pounds again, and it’s only the first week.
I think it’s easier for guys to lose weight than it is for women to, but I have to say, it’s really not been that hard.
Not sure what the point of this post is. I guess I’m just happy that I’ve lost some weight, started better habits at the gym, and continue to eat right. That and to tell people that there is no reason to drink 28 grams of sugar in a soda when the diet soda tastes just fine.
*The thing about South Beach is that when you look at it, you don’t say, “What the hell? That doesn’t make sense.” Because it does make sense. It doesn’t take stupid Atkins ideas like injecting butter into your veins to lose weight. It also takes into account how what you eat needs to be balanced, and that you need to get some excercise. In the end, the only thing they recommend against eating is stuff like ice cream and fried foods. Surprise surprise, you shouldn’t eat pure sugar, pure fat, or combinations of just sugar and fat. You’ll eat more veggies, eat leaner protein, learn how to read nutrition facts, and learn the value of lots of different foods.
**The levels are as follows:
Sober (0-1 beers)
Tipsy (2-4 beers)
Buzzed (5 beers)
Drunk (+5 beers)
Wasted (+8 beers)
Blackout (+10 beers)
