No MORE!

I started going to COSTCO again 2 months ago, after having not gone for about 5 years. When I go I try to only buy what I really need, it is easy to buy things from COSTCO you wouldn't buy otherwise. I can spend hundreds of dollars because I really like the things COSTCO carries, maybe that is why I stopped going for a long time. I usually buy breakfast food, cat food and litter, soft drinks, turkey burgers, and some kind of dinner I can cook in the micro wave. Today I decided I was no longer going to drink soft drinks. I have been drinking diet soft drinks for many many years. I usually drink Diet Dr. Pepper and Diet Pepsi. Today I bought tea to drink instead of soft drinks. I bought it in bottles I can take with me. I haven't tried this, ever! I will try this for a month and see what happens. When I go to McDonald's I will order iced tea instead of Diet Coke. When I go out for dinner I will drink water or a beer instead of Diet Coke (ok, maybe that isn't the best choice). You have to understand how bad it has gotten for me, I often leave my house before 6:30am because of my job. I bought a breakfast burrito so I can microwave it while I am getting dressed and take it with me. Since I am usually in a hurry I just take a can of soda with me since it is easy to take out of the fridge and bring with me. So, no more soft drink, instead I bought bottles of chocolate milk that I don't need to refrigerate and I can just take with me. The tea bottles I will refill when I run out, I think I will even do that with the milk bottles, but I will make sure to wash them completely. I think that with this going on I am ready to start the next part of my diet. I will start running more and watch what I eat! I want to get down to 170, I'm at 180 right now.

Tomorrow morning I will run another 5K, in Cupertino, CA. I will first take Sarah to her softball tournament at 7am, then watch them practice and then play the beginning of their game. The game starts at 8 and I need to start running at 9, so I will watch 15 minutes before I drive over and do the run. This run will be fun because they close the streets and I will be running in down streets I often drive. It won't be so much fun because they won't keep good time and I will not have that good of time running. The man I talked to today when I registered was surprised there were so many people registered, around 300. That isn't very many compared to many of the runs I have made, but it is twice as many as have run in Cupertino's races before. So, I will sleep early today and wake up early tomorrow.