The ol' 45'er... 6 and a half weeks and 15 lbs. later!
The cravings are very few and far between. Really, they are just a passing thought on a rare occasion. However, nicotine has another weapon in the arsenal that is trying to lure me back. Freaking weight gain. Man, I can't believe it. Monday (day 43) I hopped on to the scale and weighed in at the biggest number of my life: 205. To put that in perspective, I was about 180 at Halloween. My ideal marathon weight is about 175. Now granted, I really didn't workout through November/December/January, so the gain is not a surprise. But... the quit sure put the accelerator on this!
Fortunately the funk ended when it did. I was doing nothing for that first 30 days except eat crap food and sleep, snacking all the time and anything to keep the oral fixation at bay. I was honestly doubting this quit thinking to myself "If I'm gonna feel like this forever, what's the point?" At times I figured I substituted an $8/day nicotine addiction for a $4/day sunflower seed addiction! Again, big thanks goes out to the vets here on KTC that assured me and others that things will get better. And they certainly did.
The last 2 weeks the energy has returned, been able to get back into the workout routine and have trimmed back on the snacking. Hope to drop most of this weight by 5/9/15 as I have a 50M trail event in Indiana, my first at that distance. Certainly be much easier not hauling around 20+ extra pounds for 12+ hours. Every day starts out with 2 things: Post quit roll and post exercise roll. Starting to see and feel the quit benefits!
