Today marked the one month mark without cheese. So i had some. Came home and she had a pizza, so i had a slice of pizza (with extra cheese melted on, as otherwise it'd've been a stale slice of gross bread), and then i made a salad and put cheese on that. Then i had a spoonful of Baskin' Robbins pb& chocolate ice cream. Now i'm having a beer.
It was all kinda disappointing and anticlimactic. Excepting the beer: Hop Rising from Squatters is darn good.
I'd guess abstaining from cheese for a goodly span has been educational. I really wasn't sure i could do it--never had before really. Thought it might be the key to weight loss for me. And while i still think it's gunna end up being important to cut down on from my usual Sam's Club quota, i didn't lose an ounce by cutting it out. Just managed to replace the calories with other stuff--mostly nuts i expect. Really been fairly strict with food quality and quantity otherwise.
And i am getting in better shape. Ramping up to start a training season in about another week, and i've been doing a lot of endurance stuff. Did two 30 min ARC sessions today, and it felt much easier than last week.
But i know that weight loss is going to be the crux if i'ma see just how hard i can climb; and i'm afraid that's going to involve counting calories. But i'm still over 17% bodyfat, and that's a lotta lard; and it ain't (apparently) gunna go away by making dietary tweaks and substitutions.
Bleh.
But then, hiking 5.12 will feel very, very, terribly nice.
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