New Year Competition

I hate New Year’s resolutions.
I never make them because I know I will just end up not following through with them. I believe most people find themselves in a simalair situation.
However, my wife, Sarah, made a New Year’s resolution for me. She calls it dieting and I call it giving up all of my favorite foods and drinks while wasting away to nothingness.
Then I visited my parents house and saw pictures of myself from two years ago when I had a decent looking figure. I was no Brad Pitt, but I could hold my own in a “he’s-not-so-bad” contest.
I still wasn’t keen on the idea of making a New Year’s resolution having to do with weight because it is often the most common resolution and the most failed.
Then Sarah proposed a wager. She proposed we both go on a diet and whoever has lost the most weight by May wins the others spending money.
Bringing money into the equation changed things for me. I thought of all the DVD’s and Blu-ray’s I could buy with this extra spending money.
I also know my wife is already skinny and if she loses much more weight she will float away on a strong gust of wind. I on the other hand, could easily lose 20 pounds resulting in someone asking me if I have had a haircut.
Therefore, in the spirit of winning money, not a resolution, I have dedicated to lose more weight than Sarah.
I have already begun the journey and it is not simple. I have had to give up some of my favorite things, including Cokes. I could drink seven Cokes in one day without batting an eye, and now I must limit myself to one Diet Coke everyday. It is hard, but I will have to learn to like drinking water.
I never drank water before because I figured my body is made up of somewhere around 75% of water. It doesn’t need anymore. It wants flavor.
I must also hold back on my favorite dish, Tyson’s buffalo style chicken tenders (even writing this is wreaking havoc on my mind and body).
The journey will be long and hard, but the end result will be worth it. I don’t know if she doesn’t believe I can do it or if it just an elaborate trick to have me fit into my back-in-my-college-day-jeans, but either way, I am going to be spending her money come May.
I ask for the prayers and support of the community as I take on the task of trouncing my wife in this competition. I will keep you up to date with weigh ins and picture progress.