Wednesday 4/6/08 approx 96kg

I started my journal on word hoping to put it up on facebook. Finally realised that you can't blog on facebook so I had to find another way.... So this is my first entry.

It’s the third day in, to what actually might be a successful plan. I have never been one for fad diets or Weight Watchers. I hate counting calories or points. I tried keeping a food diary but I’d always forget to fill it in. Instead I’ve written up a table of foods I enjoy that are healthy (giving myself a few yummies here and there) instead of trying to force myself to eat things I’ll I am in the midst of writing up an exercise regime. I feel this will work as all I have to do is check that the foods are there in the cupboard and check off the boxes as I go.
The first day was a Wednesday, so I am glad I didn’t use the excuse “I’ll start on Monday” because I figure if everything is ready for me to start now, why not? However it was probably not the best day to start as my fiancé Daniel is Italian and there is a family dinner every Wednesday. So of course it’s full with chicken schnitzels and biscuits and cake and yummy things and I was sitting there with my winter vegetables soup! I couldn’t resist and I had to have half a chicken schnitzel and I was allowed to as long as I wasn’t going to bitch about it afterwards! And then we made scones, this lovely recipe that my Nanny gave me using soda water, and I scoffed 3 with marg and jam!
The second day was good too, I was making berry smoothies with a scoop of low fat ice cream (and realised I’d had one yesterday and should substitute yoghurt instead), and in my morning snack I only had a muesli bar and no banana because I was so full, although that also could be due to the fact I have been waking up at 11am lately because I’ve been going to bed late and so have been eating my breakfast at miday! Anyway I realised that tonight my Mum, Daniel and I all were going to see Sex and the City the movie! And I couldn’t imagine not having a little something and watching a movie with no nibblies and tried to strike up a deal with Mum asking if I can have one, to which she replied you’re 21 now you can eat what you want!! Then we came to an agreement that if I eat one boysenberry choc-top at the movie, I had to take out two ice creamy desserts from my diet. I love ice cream so much. It’s the one thing I could eat all day every day. I even eat it in winter with a doona wrapped around me! In my new fangled diet plan thingy (although I’m trying not to use the word “diet”) I have two nights of a scoop of low fat ice cream with some kind of fruit and two nights of Weight Watchers sundaes, that’s four nights of ice cream! So I think I might have to adjust that part but we’ll see how I go after a month.