I don't drink soda (and other lies I tell myself for my own good)

So. I needed a few more characters for the blog title and might need to make some adjustments. I wanted to start my first post here and get this show on the road, though.

I am WAY past an even reasonably "healthy" overweight point. Beyond the "pleasantly plump" point and well into morbidly obese. I have a heck of a soda habit/addiction, and that just encourages eating all the rest of the crap food. I have cut soda out briefly, time after time, only to return to drinking ungodly amounts of it on a daily basis. It's so bad for you, but you know as well as I do that "just" considering the long term consequences aren't always enough to motivate change. However, the seemingly ever-increasing clothing sizes are really ugly and help bring the horrible of it all to the here and now. So....the fat's gotta go.

The blog title is kind of facetious, but with a nod to the mind games we sometimes have to play with ourselves in order to get where we want to go. I want to be able to tell myself this, when I have the next craving for a soda. It doesn't even have to be quite true, but I can make it true by telling it to myself and following through. Right now, I haven't had a soda since New Year's Eve. Big whoop, right?, since probably plenty of people don't even have them weekly to begin with. However, moving from multiple a day to trying (again) cold turkey makes it kind of a big deal. Hopefully, the additional mind game "boost" from there being no soda *this YEAR* will help get me past cravings for soda. I think if I can kick the soda habit for good, I have a good chance of actually making a difference weight wise in the not too distant future.