Intro

I'm joining this site because I will definitely be needing it this month. I'm starting a new job tomorrow, and quitting smoking in four days. I am dismayed by the extra five lbs. I picked up from my previous smoking cessation attempt in June which lasted until about a week or two ago. I know when I quit again, I will be tempted to sublimate with delicious food, as I usually do. Nicotine withdrawal creates a hunger for sugar, because regular cigarette use floods the brain with stored sugars within 7 seconds of taking the first draw. My body is accustomed to a constant flood of sugars in the bloodstream and it will not be happy when I abruptly cut it off from its supply. This will make me reach for the tasty, tasty donuts and I will gain again, if I do not thwart my appetite with careful monitoring.

I don't even know where I'd fit exercise into my schedule, yet. But when I do exercise, I tend to prefer going to a playground and swinging (swinging exercises your butt, back, arms, thighs, and calves and is way more fun that a treadmill would be, in my opinion.) or climbing on the various jungle gyms; to joining a gym. My neighborhood is full of angry rottweilers and pitbulls who seem to always find their way out of their respective yards to harass joggers or people out strolling, and so running would only provide entertainment for my neighbors' dogs who might end up playing fetch with my femur. But I'm sure I will find some way along the line to get exercise. Right now, though, I am concentrating on losing the chub my body so handily decided I need to survive the winter (thanks, but no thanks, body. I don't need to store fat. I'm not a groundhog.).