The 126th One 5/8/24

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So I've been “working” out for like 20 days now and I promise I'm not going to be one of those people who all I do,now is talk about working out (even though I think 2 out of the last three days have been work out related!) I will however be one of those people who point my nose down at people who don't work out!!! I'm going to give unsolicited advice and talk behind your back because you skipped leg day one time last month. Just kidding of course. But the only reason I have been writing about this is because I need something to write about. I made a commitment to do a post a day for 365 days and I will stick to it. I think thi\e writing is going to be harder than the drawing or the actual working out. The reason I bring this up is because even though I've been working out for 20 days I've been drinking soda for at least 40 years. By my math I've drank over 30,000 12 ounce sodas in my lifetime-probably a lot more.  No exaggeration. I’ve never stopped or took a break or anything. I tried to go two days one time with no soda and started to get really bad headaches. It's a definite addiction. There could be worse I guess. But now there might be hope for me. Because even though losing weight is not the point  of working out, it's just a nice side effect. Now every time I drink a soda I find myself wondering what I'm doing and I feel like I'm working backwards. I stopped eating Snickers Ice Cream Bars every night but I didn't eat those for 40 years. Dr. Pepper and Big Red are my drink of choice and they are both so good. I mean just so, so good. Side note- Dr. Pepper and Big Red were both invented in the small Texas town of Waco, Texas. And by totally different people with no relation. A lot of people in F;lorida have never heard of Big Red but it's a pretty big soda company.

The entire point of this post is I've been drinking soda for so long and I think I might have to quit or slow down at least because I started working out. 

The Artwork- I think this guy is from a cartoon but he reminds me of one of those dogs that won “The Worlds Ugliest Dog '' contest. But he still looks cool. I always enjoyed drawing dogs like this because of the way I had to draw the back legs in  proportion to the front legs and paws. This guy has huge eyes and the way his small tongue his hanging out really says something. 

Day 21 of the elliptical-Day three of 60 minutes straight on the elliptical. It's getting easier every night. I think the goal is to be able to do sixty straight minutes on the hardest setting with no problem.