Motivation

Last summer I was a hardcore dieter! I was so intent on losing the baby weight that I was obsessive about writing down points and exercising. I wouldn't put anything in my mouth that I knew was going to cost me. I ate salads like crazy and would often eat just vegetables for lunch or dinner.

This summer, not so much!

A year later, I am the epitome of a dieter who has seriously fallen off the wagon. I've gained a few pounds and my clothes are starting to be tighter than is sometimes comfortable. I cancelled my subscription to Weight Watchers and seem to have little motivation to jump back on the train. Not sure if it's the super busy schedule we've been keeping the last few months or what that has deceived me into being okay with my new found lack of dieting and exercise desire. Whatever it is, it's about to send me over the deep end or make my end look deeper, however you want to put it.

Not sure what it's going to take for me to jump back on the "I'm on a diet" train, but it better happen quick or I'm going to look like Jabba the Hut!

30 Day Food Challenge

I come from a family of food lovers and so does LT! Needless to say, we're always on some sort of diet. I had this goal of losing to a certain weight before he came home from his year long vacation in the desert and am pretty close. I've wasted a few months not writing down points or exercising and just doing my best to maintain. Now that we're in the home stretch, I've become a little more determined. We'll see how long that determination lasts. For 3 days, I've written down my points and not just put whatever I see laying around in my mouth!

It feels good to practice some discipline in my eating. I still hate to exercise and it doesn't matter what it is! I've treadmilled. I've P90X'ed. I've 10 Minute Trainered. I hate that tired, out of breath, burning feeling associated with exercise. I may have to rearrange the living room again and deal with seeing the tv and cable cords so I can watch TV while I treadmill. That would require taking down the Christmas tree, though.

I'll let you know if I reach my weight goal before LT's vacay ends.

Jake's Son

For the past week and 1 day, I've been the Low Carb Queen! I've done really well, dropped a few pounds and am feeling like I have a little momentum in the diet department. Unfortunately for me, you can't have a #1 with polynesian sauce at Chick Fil A and call that Low Carb! So the past 2 weeks on our Friday night trip to Chick Fil A, we've eaten salads. Not nearly as exciting or tasty as the #1, but for now it has to be done. Last week we bought Bailey some nuggets and instead of eating them, he wanted my salad. This week we decided we would just get him a side salad and hopefully allow me to enjoy my own salad. He sat longer than he's ever sat at a fast food restaurant eating his salad! Of course it was smothered in ranch dressing and a little bit of polynesian sauce. He had a mixture of ranch dressing polynesian sauce covering his whole face and both hands! Never in a million years when not concerned about dieting would I ever choose salad over a good Peanut Oil fried Chick Fil A nugget. He's a weird kid and I'm sure he gets that from his father!

Since I need my sweets, we've had to try a couple of Low Carb dessert recipes. Last week it was some sort of pumpkin cheesecake sort of dish which was actually pretty tasty topped with whipped cream. This week we've gone back to a Low Carb peanut butter cookie we made a couple of years ago that consists of 1 cup of peanut butter, 1 cup of splenda and 1 egg. They're a little crumbly, but they'll suffice for an occasional sweet treat! Later in the week I'm going to try a recipe for Low Carb Peanut Butter Fudge! I'll let you know how that one goes.