Week 2 - Day 8 214

Woke up at 4AM and was hungry, fed the beasts and decided to weigh in before I ate something...I had gained 4 pounds so decided to go to fridge and eat  anything and everything I could get my hands on...if I gained weight in misery why not do it in bliss.  Before I opened the door I decided to weigh myself one more time, this time with my glasses on...LOST 6 pounds...had a drink of water and went back to bed.
Had fruit and nonfat cottage cheese for breakfast, will have small tuna sub for lunch and dinner in Boston...

Day 6

Second time around, sent the other one out in the ether I guess (*&$%&_(_)  Had said today was a good day but upon closer inspection I think it could be changed to an okay day.  Woke up and 6AM and did not resist the last two pieces of coffee cake in the fridge along with a cup of coffee.  Went back to sleep and had a beautiful dream so I guess I don't suffer from guilt induced nightmares. I made up a big melange of veggies, chicken, bow tie pasta, with the new Philadelphia Cream Cheese Italian cooking sauce...good but probably not worth the calories or the expense since it would be easy enough to make the sauce from scratch.  This was accompanied by a bloody which I neglected to remember when I thought it was a 'good' day.  Dinner is going to be a little sad.  I am at work and had to make my purchase shortly after I had eaten lunch so nothing appealed to me and after visiting three places with good food I ended up at the convenience store down the road and bought a sad little half sandwich, turkey on what appears to be half a dinner roll.  Sandee and Andy just left for the house and I have agreed to accept a refreshing rum beverage. 
Once again I'm ready to quit before I really start but since this is the last ditch I will soldier on.

Day 4 & 5

Work in progress...not committed enuf to skip a good dinner or a good drink.  Without others I have been perfect but dinner and drinks with Debbie's friends was actually ok appetizer ribs, rice and a Caesar salad, dinner with Frank, Sheila, Sandee & Andee...homemade pasta with truffles, cheeses and honey, lettuce soup, beef and a big ole strawberry shortcake with ice cream and whipped cream.........yum.  I really think I have cut back enuf to lose the one pound I am committed to but if I don't I'll be devastated and I have Maguire's birthday fete on Wednesday...actually Wednesday is weigh in day so if I meet my goal I can enjoy and then get to work.  I'm working on the water thing and I'll never get to 8 glasses or even 6 but I keep trying to drink some daily.

Day 3

Great day, no work, have been sitting working on my novel since I dragged myself from the "scratcher" and  had an icky breakfast of oatmeal with milk and sugar (not for me) and coffee.  Lunch was lentil soup, not my best effort, would have been good over rice or  something.  I think I made it in my vegetarian period which lasted about a nanno second, for good reason...that with cheese and a few pretzels and I can tell you I am starving to death.  Trouble is on the horizon, Debbie wants me to met her and her friends at the Chart Room for a drink...there is no such  thing as one drink and after two mere hunger becomes starvation...or leads to three and without eating that leads to intoxication and an inability to drive.  Posting early because I won't be available later.
I read there is a guy who photographs everything he eats...he really should get a life!  Of course he will some how parlez that into a best selling book while I sit here eating crackers trying to write a passable tome.

Week 1 - Day 1 & 2 220/45/41/45

Day 1 & 2 have gone well but between working and being a sou-gardener I have been too tired to blog.   Those incredible numbers are in fact my weight and measurements...it seems like only yesterday they were 135/34/24/34 but alas those bags of potato chips with containers of sour cream have taken their toll. 

I was good Day1 except for mojitos, wine and as many peanuts as I could shell...okay maybe not as good as I thought.  Day 2 I have been really good and healthy; since I am at work the likelihood of diving into the wine bottle are slim.  I bought myself a lovely double insulated 16 ounce glass (made of plastic with a screw on cover and a big ole plastic straw).  I am almost water phobic so this is my reminder to drink, drink, drink, water, water, water!  Very warm today and was hauling leaves to the leaf dump so I didn't need too much of a reminder.

Part of the reason I started this was the clothing issue.  A week or so ago, I was lucky enough to find a batch of clothes at Coldwater Creek that fit so I  purchased.  A couple of days ago I got a postcard from them saying everything is now half price...as luck would have it I hadn't worn or taken the tags off of 4 items so I decided to see if I could get the sale price.  By the time I got there I decided if I am really serious about this diet why not take them back since hopefully they wouldn't fit  for long...$233 credit, I'm a happy, albeit slovenly, camper.

Day 0

Don't want to say Day 1 because that implies something is starting...So, on day zero I started a BLOG.  I'm writing this for myself and if you are reading, How did you get here? This is my secret place to track my Crusade against Obesity.  That sounds very lofty for what is really a tracking of my own obesity and plan to lose 50 in 50....fifty pounds in fifty weeks.  This was brought on by the obvious, being overweight, but also my search for clothes that is leading me directly to Omar the tent maker.  Everyone knows someone who is reed thin and says they still feel like a fat person, well I am the antithesis, I was painfully thin and as robust as I am I still think of myself as thin and am shocked when I catch a glimpse.  That's what happened today, sitting on a friends deck, looking out at the ocean with two friends, eating lovely food, drinking a tot of wine and ooops who is the beached whale in the reflection of the sliding glass door....oh, moi.  Tomorrow will be the first weigh in and that will be the biggest secret of all.