Food, Sex, and Special Events: Eating my way to a better 2012

After a whirl wind of weddings, sick days, holidays, and mall parking lots December if finally over. I had big wedding the first weekend, and then immediately got really sick with bronchitis, and then a really bad cold the second, third, and most of the last week of Dec. I missed most of the fun stuff, including my friend Keri’s Fondue & Ugly Sweater party, the Norsic dinner at The Plaza (yummm), and the Sugar & Spice dinner. I still have all the stuff I bought to make sticky black gingerbread…one day I will use it.

Now that January has started I have resigned to tackle my 2012 goals with fervor and zeal. The First week was a waste, between dinner meetings and general laziness, I did nothing outside of my twice weekly appointments with Amanda, aka Demand-a, my personal princess of pain (trainer). This week was much better I started my new diet, and morning workout routine for home. Next week I start cardio again, and I start seeing Amanda 5 days a week until I get past this slump of starting over. Right after I get back from my mini vacation to Connecticut on Tues.

Basically my diet is pretty simple. Don’t eat until lunch, keep it small, and then meat and a veggie for dinner. My trainer hates this diet. She strongly advises 5 small meals, starting with breakfast. I however, could not stick to it and was still taking in almost 2400 calories per day, and losing no weight despite my work out routine.

On the menu this week: I had flounder with tomato caper sauce over steamed broccoli on Mon, a hamburger (seasoned, but no bun or layers, just the burger) over steamed spinach with tomato and garlic sauce on Tues, chicken scaloppini with mushroom sage sauce with roasted asparagus on Wed, and a blackened pork chop over roasted Brussels sprouts. Friday was nothing since I had a dinner meeting, and it got cancelled half way there, so by the time I got back home I was too tired to cook. Weekends are still up in the air...

This Sunday, Mon, & Tues I will be at a haunted bed and breakfast, so I only planned meals for Wed-Fri next week so far. Wed will be ground beef lettuce wraps w/ mushrooms & sprouts & green onion, Thurs will be chicken pesto with green & yellow squash, and Friday will be flounder almondine with steamed broccoli (or maybe kale).

So hopefully this will be a goal I can keep this year…loose 30 lbs, eat well, and build endurance. To be continued…