Some habits die hard

Three days without diet soda and I haven’t suffered the caffeine DTs.

Thursday’s a deadline day around the Frontiersman, which means working full-blast for 12 hours or more. It’s days like these that have helped develop my unhealthy eating habits. I wake up, begin checking e-mail, making phone calls and taking some notes right away, grab a quick shower and head in to the office. Once behind that desk on deadline day you don’t come up for air until the final page is to the pressroom.

Then, when finally home, I would find myself really hungry, eat a lot of junk then fall right to sleep.

Not healthy.

I admit I fell partway into the trap this day. I woke up, hit the office and didn’t break for lunch, dinner or even a glass of water. The difference was at the end. Instead of completing the usual routine, I drank lots of water, ate a regular portion of good food (chicken breast, green beans and an apple) then instead of slipping into a coma I found some busy work around the house.

This isn’t ideal and I’ll admit the first few days of changing my eating habits has been harder than I thought. I’m having no trouble eating the right foods, but I’ve never been a breakfast eater and half the time, skip lunch as well. This sounds weird coming from someone as overweight as I, but I have to force myself to eat in the morning.

Have the first training session with Bill at AT&T Sports Center Friday afternoon and I’m actually looking forward to it. If you see the Valley’s newest workout place brimming with patrons wearing sunglasses, that’s a sure sign Greg’s bare, white, gnarly legs have entered the room.

But now it’s way too late and I need my beauty sleep.

Later, Winners!