The adult sippy cup...

Well, I've made that seemingly inevitable right of passage that so many successful dieters seem to make at one time or another:  I'm drinking water - lots of water, ounces and ounces and ounces of water per day.  Holy pee, Batman.

So now I'm carrying this with me nearly everywhere I go:

It's like my own 32 oz. adult sippy cup.  I ordered it from Amazon about 2 weeks ago for less than $10 shipped.  My wife gave me the eye roll when it arrived, much like the one she gave me when I ordered my kettlebell.  I will say though, the eye roll was deserved.  I'm notoriously bad for trying to start on a "water kick", getting my special bottle/container/whatever, and then 5 weeks later it's sitting in the back seat of my car, half-filled with tepid tap water while I'm sucking down my 5th diet Pepsi of the day.

It's somewhat of an ironic twist that I now have my own sippy cup, because I was kind of anti-sippy cup when my kids were little.  I wouldn't say I was completely anti-sippy cup, I just don't get this constant obsession we seem to have of making sure that a kid is carrying around a container of liquid to drink from every waking minute.

Here's my crotchety old man take on the issue:  when I was a kid, we had this great system.  We would have cups next to the bathroom and kitchen faucets.  When you got thirsty, you made a trip to the faucet of your choice, filled the cup with water, and drank the water (repeat as needed).  I grew up in the country, so we also had a back-up system in case the faucet method should fail, called a hose.

In some of my more pessimistic moments, I sometimes think if I were to write a parenting book (and this is probably evidence that I should definitely not), the title would be:  "There's Water in the F#cking Faucet".

Anyway, the whole water thing was started in an attempt to get myself off the copious amounts of diet Pepsi I was drinking each day.  It was a lot, a real lot.  Here's the number (wait for it...):  8 cans a day.  And that's at least 8 cans a day, some days even more.  Just under a gallon of diet Pepsi every day.  Ugh.

I'm surprised at how much I don't miss it.  I was planning on allowing myself 2 cans a day - one in the morning and one at dinner.  But the 2 cans turned in to just one in the morning, which turned into "meh, I guess I don't feel like one right now".

Good progress this week - I'm down 2 lbs and another inch around my waist.  Even though the 2 lbs is a slower pace than my previous pace of 3 lbs/week, I had only been losing a quarter to a half inch around my waist each week until this one.  I'll take inches over pounds any day.