Life and the Art of Dieting

Or, why I can't lose weight. I like to eat. I LOVE to eat. Last night Wayne, Megan and I went to Bonefish Grill for dinner. We had the yummy, but not very diet friendly, dish Bang Bang shrimp. For dinner I had the Ahi Tuna Sashimi, which I guess isn't too bad caloric wise. Megan had the Dorado fish special which I thought was over cooked. Wayne had the filet with shrimp scampi.

I was slightly better at lunch. I had leftover Thai shrimp curry with rice.

Even after all that eating I was down .02 pounds at the end of the evening.

Interestingly enough the capitalization seems to have gotten lost.

Making backward progress

"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters."
– Abigail Van Buren

Horoscope: It all starts with a kind word or a generous act -- and you'll know just how to keep things going from there. Something big is on the horizon.

What my name means:

You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily.
You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind.
A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable.

You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.
You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.
You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.
You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.
You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

You are balanced, orderly, and organized. You like your ducks in a row.
You are powerful and competent, especially in the workplace.
People can see you as stubborn and headstrong. You definitely have a dominant personality.

You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in.
You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising.
You may miss out by not settling down, but you're too busy having fun to care.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

I pretty much suck at dieting, not to mention life in general. I have gained 2.2 pounds as of this morning.

For lunch salad with fried nacho chips (real good diet food). For dinner Pad See Ew. Another diet friendly food. Not mention lots of noodles. It was good but I couldn't fall asleep. Not sure if they put MSG or it was just too much food. I am coming to the conclusion that I am a foodaholic.

Another day, another, well not much

Even after not doing so well I lost .04 pounds. However, I now weigh what I weighed last Thursday. Oh well. I just have to keep going.

No breakfast again. I have to do better on that front.

I didn't bring my lunch today so I'm not sure what I will eat. I did bring some yogurt but I know that won't fill me up. Salad, salad, salad. I'm thinking if I say it enough I will actually buy it. But maybe they'll have some good soup in the café.

I made chili for dinner which would have been a good diet item except for the cheese and sour cream that I added. Yikes!

The weekend

Horoscope for today: It'll be up to you to come to a reasonable interpretation of the facts and to convince others that your solution is accurate.

I was really pretty bad over the weekend. One: I didn't blog anything and Two: I ate everything. Saturday I made gougères and shrimp with garlic alioli sauce for dinner. The shrimp wasn't bad, dietwise, the gougères? Yeah, not so much. But delicious none-the-less.

My goal, after all the eating I did on Friday and then again on Saturday, was to count the weekend (Friday and Saturday) as free days.

Today I'm back on track -- pretty much.

No breakfast - I know: bad!
Lunch: tomato soup and salad with steak
Snack: banana, orange and apple

I went to the gym!!! Yeah me!

Dinner: hmmmm, yeah, not so good: Mozzarella and tomatoes, French onion soup, 2 of the left over gougères.

Day whatever

I know it hasn't been that long but staying on a diet seems to be impossible for me. If I see chicken fingers and French fries in the cafeteria at work I have to have them. I did and now I'm stuffed and kind of sick. Yikes! I need to somehow figure out a way to not get food just because I want it. I probably need to avoid the cafeteria.

I was good for breakfast. :-\

OK, I ate the french fries. Get over it. Start again. Be better. Think before you order and then, if you order the "wrong" thing, only eat half of whatever it is. My new rules.

Day 4

I tend to sabotage myself. If I lose weight I get all excited but then I tend to eat more than I should of the wrong stuff that day and then the next day I've gained a bit and I get depressed and then eat even more. I kind of did that yesterday but not to the degree I have in the past. And today I'm going to get back on track!

CHRISTIAN WON!!!! I'm so happy for him. I absolutely loved his last collection.

No breakfast, I wasn't really hungry. Lunch was a salad with creamy balsamic dressing, tuna mousse and a whole wheat pita.

I wanted cheese doodles this afternoon but I had an orange instead. I was thinking that since they're the same color it might work. But, hmmmm, not so much.

Day 3

my horoscope: Keep your spirits up and you can be a shining example to others whose situations are not nearly as complex as your own.

So far I've lost 3.8 pounds.

For breakfast I ate a quarter of a cranberry muffin. I knew I shouldn't be eating this but I really wanted it. It turned out to be not that good.

Lisa and I met Carroll at the Tewksbury Inn for lunch. We all had the pulled pork sandwich which was delicious. Not exactly diet friendly though. On a good note: I didn't eat (too many of) the homemade chips.

Starting to slide again. I had another quarter of the muffin, EVEN THOUGH I DIDN'T EVEN LIKE it that much! I need to think before I just put food in my mouth.

Day 2

Eating plan day 2. I did better today except I had a bran muffin for breakfast. But at least I only ate the top of it. For lunch I had a salad, an avocado, some chicken with sesame ginger dressing. Grapes and half an apple for snack. But now I'm hungry. And I don't want to exercise.

For dinner we had bratwurst, potato cakes and salad. I shouldn't have eaten the potato but it was there...

Day 1

Today is the first day of my new eating program. Not a diet! An eating program. And on this program I need to lose (for now) 14 pounds. So far, so not good. The good: For breakfast I had non-fat yogurt with blueberries and granola (not so good). The bad: I had a chicken salad sandwich for lunch. Well, I was hungry. Not to mention the fact that we're having chicken for dinner. I'm hoping the fact that I have to blog about this eating program every day will help.

If I follow the Weight Watchers plan I have 6 points left for the day. If I follow the South Beach plan I already blew it with the granola and bread.