Change of plans

I recently returned from a vacation with my mother, during which we talked some about dieting, body image, fitness, health, and so forth. She's recently lost over 20 pounds and looks absolutely amazing.

Meanwhile, I've been on ediets since the end of February and... not losing weight. Yes, I am 20 pounds lighter than when I started, but I hit a plateau and haven't been moving.

Cooking all of my meals has been torture. Spending a fortune on groceries is arduous and stressful. Keeping the blog the way I was absolutely wasn't helping.

So today I signed up for NutriSystem, which is how my mom lost all her weight. The advantage as I see it is that the most preparation these meals will require is adding some water and microwaving. I can handle that. And because the food is already in my apartment, it's not going to be a choice between cheating on the diet or going to the store - I just have to walk to the other room and heat something.

I really really hope that this works. I was about to give up dieting altogether before my mom and I talked about it. So, Diet #2 for this project.

Since I will be eating prepackaged meals, I'm not going to be posting photos of all the food (since that was really hard to keep up anyway). Maybe once in a while I will show what some of it looks like, but mostly I plan to keep this blog more in a journal format, seeing as that's the one outlet I actually need right now.

One kind of dismaying, but amusing thing. The NutriSystem site has a My Virtual Model, which I've seen before on clothing sites. I filled in my stats and yikes - she's a big fat cow! The good news is, they also show what I could look like at my goal weight (120 - right) and umm, she's pretty foxy. Good to see what I'm shooting for.