Day 1

So day one of lent!  Ha, so far so good!  Well Id expect it to seeing that I'm not a walking drunk, lol.  So yeah, no beer nor any coke products!  Oddly though is that I had given up cokes long time ago, but coming to Chicago everyone drinks 'pop' and I fell back in love with Cherry Coke! ugh!! I miss it already just typing this!  Though I've learned to not say 'coke' here, especially asking 'hey do you have coke' cause well that simply implies the white powder form! lol So....no more pop for me! 

Today at work I was video recorded that will later be used for Bilingual education purposes.  It was fun, and honestly I was very pleased because I did not look like a gigantic red tomato seeing that I wore red today. lol  In fact I thought I looked great and healthy.  Ive been walking a lot and truthfully I lost all my Texas weight I gained when I went home in transition to arriving here.  THANK GOD!  But today I accepted a new challenge. I found old pics of me at 26 and 27 bdays and I was simply smaller and much more thin-boned!  I'm a big framed boy but I pushed myself, and Ill admit publicly now that I lost the weight for bad reasons and in bad ways!  Whatevs, the mission was accomplished so I really don't care.  A book that I really want to publish under the name of "Selftervention: The Final Flush" depicts my tales and struggles with weight and being nicknamed 'Gordo' by my family.  Not my real nickname of 'NUNO' but a term of endearment they would call me 'gordo' which means FAT ASS!  ugh!! It means chubby I guess but might as well call me FAT ASS!  So obviously following media trends I fell into a spell of obsession and wanting to be smaller framed as I've been told, 'no you can't do it!!'  I do not accept people telling me that I cant do things, I will go right out there and do it!  For instance in college in my psych class we learned that If you didn't learn to whistle by age 8, you wouldn't be able to whistle as an adult because all the motor skills wouldn't have developed that allowed one to whistle!  So all semester long, I practiced and practiced and now I can whistle! not a full 'ooooh you are sexy' whistle but a toot comes out!  bottom line is that I proved my professor wrong! 

So today, my brother egged me on after looking at my old pics and I sorta self accepted a challenge!  Operation Collar Bones!  So in addition to my no beer and pop rules I am now adding that I have to, HAVE TO, officially lose weight after 40 days!  running, walking, eating healthier, etc! I have to show my bones!  Its only 40 days! I really know I can push myself and see what can come of it! After all, summer is around the corner, its my first summer here in Chicago after 20 plus years and I want to wear my amazing summer short collections. 

Anywho....cheers! Happy Thursday to you all!