Hi, everybody…..I’m lazy daisy and it pretty much describes my attempts at dieting and weight control. I do pretty well at the beginning, then get lazy or slack and eventually start rationalizing, “I’ve already blown it for today, so might as well wait till Monday to start back up again.”

Unfortunately, Monday never comes. So I’ve been stuck in this time warp for a long time.

I’m a registered nurse so I know how to diet. I really need accountability and encouragement. I have also decided to join our local Weight Watcher’s group as I need reinforcement and weekly accountability at the scales. Their ads read that “people who join on the average lose 3 times more weight than people who diet alone.

I need to lose over 100 pounds so people I’m desparate. Help!

Update: Thanks everyone for your wonderful comments. i just want to make one correction. For incline treadmill as I described below, the calorie count is 300 for a 35 minute workout at 7.5. Sorry. For a 22 minte workout, it’s 200 calories. I suggest starting at 10 minutes, then going to 15, and then 22 minutes. I discovered that 30 minutes is hard on the body and a 22 minute workout is plenty at that incine. It really has an impact quickly.

Well, there’s good news and bad news. Since it’s important to stay positive, I’ll focus on the good news first.

I feel like I accomplised alot today. I took my Christmas tree and all decorations down. My DH moved the treadmill out of the corner so I can actually use it and I drank alot of water. I ate well today too. I had for breakfast pancakes with an ice coffee, lunch was a salad with 2 steak tips and dinner was a small portion of Au Gratin Potatoes. I know it doesn’t seem all that healthy but for me it was just right. Tonight while at work I was looking at the WW website and I really think I might join it again. I am going to talk to DH about it at some point tomorrow. I did well the last time I was on WW and I know I could do it again.

Today I have done better at drinking water, I have written down everything I have eaten, I have stayed within my Points allowance and my intention is to go work out at 9:00. This was on the suggestion of our lovely leader, Leanne. She told me that she heard that you burn more fat if you eat either 3 hours pre or 3 hours post meals. I meant to eat at 6:00, but it wasn’t quite done, but the latest I can go to the Y and still get my workout in is 9, so that is when I am going.

My husband made this awesome Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo by Betty Crocker Complete. It was only 5 points per serving, so for a meal type food, that is pretty reasonable. I had 10 points left, so I had 2 servings. It was really good.

Um. Yea. Well, to save my arse a tad, I knew that eating right and all would be difficult while the fam is still home on their holiday breaks. The hubby, who’s been home for five days, decided that to keep himself from feeling guilty while sitting on his hiney watching sports, he would consistantly insist that I, too, needed to do nothing while he was home. Of course, he throws in there that since I work so hard every day, that I deserve a mini vacation too. Aha! That, to him, also means no cooking. Before I can even make up my mind, he’s proudly beaming at the door with armfulls of fast food.

Luckily, he tries to be smart about it for me, getting me grilled chicken sandwiches from whatever cardboard server he visited. With that, I usually toss the bun and eat the grilled chicken with only the tomato they put on top of it.

Thats how I plan to do this. For starters, thank you Leanne! I’m not sure how this computer support will all go for me, but I’m going to give it my best effort. I’m not a blogger. Don’t have one and I only read one and that is because it is my very good friend’s and I try to keep up on her life that way when we don’t get to talk. It only took me 3 times to successfully log in and I had to flip back and read my directions only twice. Sad, I know.

I hate dinnertime. It’s hard. D said that she eats at night. I commented that I do the same thing.

I live alone. So there is no one to cook for besides me. I don’t mind cooking. But single portions are sad. I do the right thing. I make enough and put some away for lunch the next day. But then it starts calling me, or I will see something on TV that depresses me and I go and eat and eat and eat.

I start so well. I had fruit loops for breakfast. 3 g of fat in 1 & 1/4 cup. Not bad. I drank a bottle of water and had an orange and water for lunch. Catch what’s missing there. Protein. Not one lick of protein. I am going to make hard eggs and bring them for breakfast. 2 hard eggs. one yolk, 2 whites. protein should help. I know when you eat protien you aren’t as hungry as quickly. It’s true. But I am not a meat/chicken person. Ohhhhh fish..I like fish I have frozen flounder in the freezer. If I make 2 pieces with pasta on the side. and some salad, go me.