You Want ME To Do What?

In my obsessive research I learned something interesting.  The 8 glasses of water a day seems to be somewhat of a myth.  It will not change the way I drink water.  For me it seems if I drink a bunch I just feel better.  I also want to eat less when I drink a ton.  Since I know it will not hurt me it just makes sense to drink up.  Something that might be different for me than most big dudes is I do not drink alcohol.  When I was younger I drank like a fish and at about 25 I just quit.  No real reason other than I just did not enjoy the scene anymore at all.  I have only been drunk once in the past 15 years and that was on July 4th of this year.  Someone made some sweet apple martini thing by the jug and I just played along.  The point is it does not play any role in my weight.   I must admit my mommy bought me a big diet coke bottle which I will enjoy but after that it is pretty much back to water only.

This article reminded me of a nutritionist I was seeing last week.  As I mentioned earlier I was in the process of doing the Gastric Bypass thing and one of the steps is seeing a nutritionist.  Let me be clear about something.  I like her a great deal personally and she surely knows what she is talking about but it was not going to work for me.  We discussed my habits and why I was over weight and I boiled it down  to fast food and soda.  That and taking the easy way out and habits I have formed over 25 years.  She advised me to only drink diet soda (as much as I wanted) and cut down my fast food intake to 5 times a week.  Now this is a little embarrassing but one of the core points of my plan is being honest about this entire deal.  The truth is I was eating fast food between 2 and 4 times a day during the week and maybe once or twice on the weekend.  And usually in fairly ridiculous amounts.  So that is 12-22 times a week. I guess looking at it now that might be a reasonable place to start,  cutting that down.  The thing is I did not want that.  I wanted to cut out all soda and fast food.  To me my eating habits are somewhat similar to an alcoholic.  No way they would tell me I should start out by only drinking lite beer and cutting out everything else.  The thing is she refused to let me do that.  She insisted I eat fast food 5 times a week.  I went to her for about a month with little results.  We argued about the plan each time.  I ended up quitting altogether when my back pain got so bad that I couldn't sit in a chair for even a minute during an appointment.  As I couldn't stand either it was not going to work.  I just couldn't see myself laying on the floor talking to this woman.  I am sure their was a reason she was instructing me this way.  It just seemed straight up crazy to me.  Maybe I should get to the point of why I bring this up.  She was also selling the 8 glasses of whatever plan.  Jenny Craig sold it to.   The person in the above article is suggesting it is nonsense.  Hmmmmm.