Tackling the Enemy

Her name is Vino, but occasionally she tempts me with her friends margarita and other fruity cocktails.  I'm sure many of you are familiar with this beguiling temptress.  We've been intimate friends for awhile as she keeps me company on many a late evening.

 However recently I've developed a new daily relationship with this website called MyfitnessPal.com.  For the first time in years, I've been tracking my daily calorie intake & my exercise expenditures.  I highly recommend it because if nothing else it will MAKE you think about what you ingest knowing you will have to enter it into this log later.  It's all on the honor system & they have a very good database for your meal entries.  Of course you could just forget, or lie ....but that defeats the purpose...so odds are you'll be truthful.  So in brief, I will make agonizing conscious decisions all day long to avoid things I'd really like to eat.  I'll eat my roasted vegetables and baked fish which are really quite delicious.  I'll congratulate myself on that smart decision to have a fruit/veggie smoothie for brunch and some almonds as a snack when hunger beckoned.  And then it happens....

I'll decide to "celebrate" my success with a little glass of wine.  It appears I am not one of those people who can limit themselves to just ONE glass of wine unless someone has hijacked my MyFitnessPal.com account.  Holy mother of earth HALF of today's calories are liquor.  (This is especially bad as tomorrow is a planned "skip" evening of liquid hydration & sushi celebration.)

On the bright side, admitting your mistakes is the first step in correcting them.  I am also pretty proud that even with this HUGE handicap I have already lost 5 pounds since I began this quest.

However, consider yourselves forewarned.  If I get cranky next week, you'll know I have started abstaining my visitations from a dear friend in pretty glasses.  No, I'm not going to say goodbye forever.  I'm not the kind of girl who lies.