So today is the first day of the next 16 weeks….   I wouldn’t say that it’s been easy, but it hasn’t been that hard either.   I mean, I’ve been dieting since the first part of the year, so that isn’t new.  It’s the focus and intensity that is different.  This time I actually have a goal in mind.  I have a number and a date - there is no vagueness about it this time.

So…  how did I do today?   Fairly well, I believe.    I was going to try the Eat to Live diet, but the more I look at it, it’s very similar to Weight Watcher’s Core Diet.   I’m familiar with that, so I’m looking at it that way.  Plus, I was just taking the info from the Eat to Live diet off the internet and I haven’t read the book yet, so I didn’t feel all that prepared.  And we all know that being ill-prepared is death to a diet.       Anyway, I actually woke up and exercised today!!!   WOO HOO!!  Of course it was so freaking EARLY, and if I keep doing it, I will have to wake up earlier and earlier since the workout I’m doing ramps up to almost an hour.   But the point was I did it.  And then I walked to go pick up my son from after school.

As for eating, well, here it is:

Breakfast: 1 orange

Lunch: salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, edamame, portabella mushrooms with balsamic vinegar/water;  1 plum

Snack: banana

Dinner:  Quinoa Skillet Dinner (quinoa with kidney beans, rotel, hominy); broccoli

That’s it.   Yes, I’ve been a bit hungry today, but I am totally focused this time around.  No more messing around.   I want to go tear through my son’s Easter candy, but I am resisting the siren call of chocolate.  It will NOT tempt me this time!!