Still on program!

This is officially day 4 on the Rice Diet, and I am stil going strong. I did cheat a bit, and use a little seasoning salt that my friend brought me from Germany. I only used 1/2 teaspoon for two cans of drained beans, and you really could not taste the salt at all, only the seasoning. Anyhoo . . . I lost a bit under a pound today, so that is 4 pounds or so since I started. Pretty good considering that I haven't had any water at all - or like only a glass or two per day. When my water intake increases, then I expect to really start losing some serious poundage.

Back to reality . . .

Since October I have been on a food bender of magnificient porportions. However, I realized, that the one thing that is guaranteed is in life, is that life will happen - stress will happen, financial concerns will happen, and I must keep going. Eating myself into a sugar/fat coma is not going to change or improve anything.

So - I have made a sea change, and have started the Rice Diet. The hardest part is actually eating food without salt. My weight has been easing upwards over the past year, and I have regained almost everything that I had lost on Nutrisystem.  Anyhow, I started RD yesterday, and I know that it is only water weight, but I am down over 2 pounds today. That combined with it being TOM is pretty impressive.

The RD is a low-salt, low-fat vegetarian diet. I am not missing the meat, I am not really missing the fat, but doing without salt is SO HARD!!! I am a hardcore sodium addict. If this helps me reduce my salt intake, then even better.

Let the journey begin . . . I will be a bit more regular about posting.

Improper assault on my tastebuds

UPDATE - Blech . . . this soup leaves a terrible after taste. The type of after taste that just makes you want to peel the skin off your tongue. Now, after all my pious self-congratulations, I am still going to have to buy something palatable to eat.

Proper lunch choices

Today is a day of letting go useless excuses.

I used to eat whatever I wanted since I had to order lunch. Last night I bought some microwave soup, and picked low GI/GL choices.

So now I am sitting here eating my very healthy 'Healthy Choice' vegetable soup, and feeling rather proud of myself that I have taken a nice, easy, and proactive first step.

The key will be to see if I can avoid the coffee trap; especially since I take my coffee Extra Light & Extra Sweet.

It is easier to stay strong when I realize that I am going to be staying 5 minutes from the beach, and I have a body that is anything BUT bathing suit ready. Besides I don't think that belly rolls and back fat count as adequate sun protection.

*laugh (with a wince of shame)*

Random thought.

Okay, I just got home from work and turned on the TV to unwind a bit, when the new chunky Chips Ahoy commercial came on. The cookies are riding in a car singing along to 'Don't you Want me Baby' by Human League. One by one this hand appears and snatches a cookie out of their convertible.

Do any of you find it weird when food items hawk themselves as tasty and delicious in tv ads? I find that so disturbing.

When I was in California there was this commercial when the regular store-brand chickens were trying to pass themselves off as as Tyson chickens. If you follow that to the logical conclusion, the disguised chickens would just be eaten faster. All those commercials seem a bit nihilistic or at the very least, rather suicidal. Just a random midnight ramble from someone that has worked a bit too hard, and is obviously suffering from low blood sugar. Yeah, low blood sugar, that's my excuse and I'm sticking too it . . . *snicker*

Infomercial Much?

I am a sucker for all things infomercial, highly suggestible, and too quick with my debit card. This is the reason for my self imposed ban on all shopping channels, and my total ban on watching infomercials.

 Unfortunately I slipped, and accidentally fell into watching the 'Slim in 6' infomercial - and before I knew it I was on the phone with the debit card in my hand. *sigh*

 The only problem with these exercise tapes is that they will only tone your behind if you use them.

 Lounging in bed, eating chocolate, while watching the exercise DVD, won’t really work. Surprise, surprise!

 So, in order to break all my habits, I am going to institute a very strict point system. Every time I do the SI6 video, I will award myself 1 point. After 6 points, I will be allowed to buy a book (my other addiction) and after 8 perhaps I will be able to see a film. These points will expire after 2 weeks and the counter will be reset to zero. This is to prevent the ultra-loophole loving Ormabe, from figuring out ways to add up exercise sessions from 2 months ago, when trying to buy that new release.

 All of my points will be posted on my blog, in the open, where I will be accountable not only to myself but to the world at large.

 The SI6 should be arriving this week, and I will start my mission to a fantastic bathing suit body then.

 Ciao Tutti!

ps. My application is in the mail, with a snuffle for luck from Talluleh-Bean.

Italy here I come!!!

I just went through my mail and the application for my Italian language school was there - WOOO-HOOOO!!!!!! All my schemes are beginning to come together! Tomorrow I will drop the application in the mail, delivery confirmation, and then my place will be officially reserved.

This is the silver lining to this terrible grey-cloud day.

A very sad day

I was thrown a bit off my program today, when I had to call my friend and tell her that her cat, that I have been pet-sitting for the past week, was dying. The cat was sick before she left, but that does not make the phone call any easier. Neither does having to tell her that the vet wanted to put the cat down, since all hope was lost.

The cat was put to sleep this afternoon, and my friend was heartbroken, and too far away to get back in time to say goodbye.

Anyhow, I now have to head over to my friends house and care for the rest of her pets and see that they are okay. Although, I have been putting it off a bit. I don;t realy want to go there with all the reminders of the cat strewn around the house. It is all so sad.

The journey of 1,000 miles or 60 pounds . . .

. . . begins with this first step.

I am 31 years old, and just a few pounds smaller than my heaviest weight. I was recently diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) and my doctor suspects hypothyroidism (low thyroid hormones) as well.

I wish I could blame all of this weight on medical conditions, but that would be way too easy, and absolve me of some serious responsibility. My ass is fat because I chow-down on high fat foods, and practice a very sedentary lifestyle. The medical condition just made the weight gain more extreme, but regardless I would have gained weight.

My friend and I are starting out on this newest weight-loss journey, and this time I really do not have the luxury of pissing about.

Tomorrow I am starting the anti-inflammatory diet which eliminates any food item that might cause your body to become inflamed. I attempted this for about one week, and I have to say I did notice some pretty wonderful results. My addiction to allergy relief eye-drops was lessened tremendously. Unfortunately, I went off the diet with a vengeance, and my eyes are on fire. I think the diet is worth it if the only benefit is that my eyes stop itching.

So there you have it, I am at the crossroad, and unable to travel both and be one traveler, I am taking the road less traveled . . . and hoping it makes all the difference.