It’s been a while since the last time I ate a burger. About 6 days ago, I started a diet for a month. A NO-HAMBURGERS diet. How has it been for me ? Not that great.

I used to eat a lot of burgers, two or three at a time on a regular meal; 4 or 5 if I skipped lunch and the burgers were my lunch instead. After taking pride of the 4 burgers that I sat down and finished at In N Out or Habit, I randomly made the choice to quit burgers for a month. May 17th, 2010 marked the first day. My daily burger eating habit (oh look, what a coincidence, it’s just like the restaurant’s name .. SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES) got destroyed.
Recently, I’ve noticed that I would get depressed if I didn’t eat at least two burgers in a day. I thought to my self, what if I am addicted? Then laughed at it. Soon enough, I decided to take a serious step towards it and cut the bullshit. I can’t and shouldn’t lie to my self anymore. I am addicted. Four burgers a day is addiction.

I sat down and planned this one month long, burger-free, diet I started. That night, I watched Super Size Me. Not the best documentary you’d want to watch if you’re addicted. Seeing him eat the burgers, despite throwing up afterwards, still made me crave a juicy burger. I couldn’t do anything about it but shut up and take it. I got my self into this, and I’m going all in.

Now that almost a week has passed, I can’t lie and say that I haven’t craved a burger, but I want to step the game up a little bit. Another poisonous thing I’m addicted to is soda. Pepsi, Coke, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, you name it … So, after further planning, I decided to start a one month long NO-SODA diet starting today, May 23rd, 2010.

May 17 – June 17 : NO BURGERS
May 23 – June 23 : NO SODA

If I can pull these two processes off, I will stretch them out to even further final dates. I love these two, but I understand that they are poisonous not only to me but to many. If you’re up for the task, try it your self. Do a weekly diet. Jump onto the month.

Let’s do this.

Apo Avedissian