Stop the madness!!

Today I started a diet, even though they say it isn't a diet since diets dont work. I signed up for Weight Watchers. Daisy signed up a week ago and is still enthusiastic about it. She has lost 4.5 lbs. and feels good about it. I have been trying to make better choices since last labor day. I managed to lose 18 lbs but then my weight loss stopped dead. The sudden end to weight loss may have something to do with my "no diet saturday" policy. This theory of dieting follows that if I am good all week, and make good food choices, then on Saturday I can eat and drink what I want. Behaving this way resulted in an endless cycle. I would get on the scale on Friday morning and be happy that I had lost 3 lbs during the week, I would enjoy my weekend with the usual foods. McDonalds on Saturday morning, meat and cheese for lunch, maybe a pizza or some bar food for dinner, a shit load of vodka later on and the obligatory munchies right before bed. While I was usually better behaved on Sunday, the damage was done. On Monday morning during my visit to the scale, I would find I had gained 3 lbs back.

Obviously, this cycle could go on forever with no real gains (or losses for that matter). So I finally decided to get serious about it and lose 50 lbs. I will still be a fat guy 50 lbs from now but that is about what I can realistically expect achieve and maintain.

I shelled out $65.00 so I could use the online tools Weight Watchers provides. Now I live in a world of points. Weight Watchers has actually turned the word "points" into a registered trade mark. Now I look up the point values of my favorite foods, or how to get the most food for the least number of points etc. I will let you know how it goes.

One good thing, I get 35 weekly "bonus" points, ostensibly for cheating. This means I have Saturday night all planned out in advance.

1.5 oz. VODKA = 2 points 35 / 2 = 17 YAY!

This is day 4 of my mission to blog 30 days in a row.