The Curse of 8PM

A few weeks ago, I decided to launch of new blog activity entitled "How Hard Can it Be?". Read about it here in case you missed it.

The first challenge was to not eat past 8PM. And I sit here trying to come up with a gentler way of saying this, but the reailty is that this was an EPIC FAIL. Argh. It was actually hard (thus answering my stupid question)....

So Nate and I captured the day-by-day account since some (ahem Mr. Aribt) presumed the failure would be better than the success (and I can't say I disagree with him)
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Day 1: Couldn't have been dealt a worse hand for the first night of this thing. We had a disastrous dinner that ended up with both Nate and I taking about 2 bites and throwing it away. This would have been FINE under normal circumstances I would have made popcorn and settled in. But it was too close to 8PM to make anything and we couldn't fail in the first night. The whining set in at 9PM and by 10 I was so hungry I just had to go to bed, although as I was falling asleep I was wondering if Nate would sneak a midnight snack...

Day 2: First of all, we WOULD have totally stuck to 8PM had a wrath of god storm not moved in and shoved dinner back about an hour And since we were starving from yesterday and Amy was in town we thought it was the polite thing to do to keep our dinner plans.

Day 3: By the hair of our chinny chin chin. Okay, we may have been over by 3 minutes, but that is just a rounding error. I am sure I could have found a clock somewhere that says 8PM.

Day 4: Nate has invented a new approach to 'survive this stupid thing' as he so nicely stated and it is this: Eat as much as possible all the way up to 8PM. Not sure that this totally accomplished our goal...but technically in bounds of the rules.

Day 5: I quickly catch on to Nate's theory and was frantically stuffing my face with licorice at 7:59 and Nate started yelling at my to chew faster. Ahh...if only there was hidden camera for these moments.

Day 6: Pass

Day 7: Fail

Day 8: In order to eat by 8, it is impossible to get home and get a work-out in BEFORE you eat. Which leaves me perplexed. Is it better to eat after 8, but work out? Or to not work-out at stop eating before 8PM? Hmmm

Day 9-10: Let's face it. We were in Viroqua. There are candy baskets. And homemade Whoopie Pies. And chips, and all sorts of goodies we don't keep in the house. So did we eat until midnight? You are GD right we did.

So it was harder than we thought. And good in practice, but not something that I personally think is worth changing your lifestyle to accommodate. It's not like we are eating a funnel cake every night at 10PM.

Next up:
Absolutely NO swearing for 10 days, starting Monday (shit!). For those of you who may or may not know, I have a fucking awesome potty mouth.