I left California on December 29th. That was the last I’ve had any Mountain Dew. Yes, comrades, that’s right, I’ve given up The Dew cold turkey. It’s actually been pretty easy, being on the road and camping helped. Since then I’ve only had soda a few times – pretty much only happens on our monthly trip to the Costco food court for kosher hot dogs.

I had also implemented a Snacks and Candy program at MSS which made junk food easily available, I have significantly reduced such foods as well. I don’t think I have had any candy since leaving Cali, and my junk food consumption has been reduced to heathly tortilla chips every other week or so.

We haven’t had a functional bathroom scale for a long time, but I weighed myself at Mimi’s before leaving Cali and found I had made it up to 255lbs.

We just picked up a scale last week and I weighed myself for the first time since giving up soda and candy, and found I’m down to 233lbs. That’s 22 pounds of HFCS I didn’t bring to TN with me.

Congrats to me.