today

today i danced a little jig... 21 pounds baby!! this is the best! diet! ever! oh, have i mentioned that lots and lots of times? it's because i'm eating ice cream and drinking cokes and losing weight, and why shouldn't i shout about that??

ok, so here's the diet for anyone who's interested... my bff Sandy came up with it based on the fact that our friend Tina had to cut out wheat due to allergies and instantly became a toothpick.

no tortillas, rice, bread, potatoes, pasta. that's it. eat all the sugar, corn, beans, other (low-karb diet) no-nos you want; i believe you have to have karbs in your life.

for Sandy & me, sugar is our big weakness, so we can't do any diet that makes us give that up. giving up the other stuff was far easier than i thought it would be (i NEVER thought i could go without pasta for more than a week).

we do make exceptions, because if we absolutely prohibit ourselves from having certain items, we will absolutely not stick with it. so when we go to Chipotle, we have rice (yummm); when i'm having a meal and someone has made fabulous-looking rolls, i have one if i want it; if i start to really crave something that i've given up, i have it, because if it is strictly forbidden, i will want it all the time and then gorge myself on it and undo all the good that this diet has done.

so that's it. i started doing this in August when i got back from Utah & the Canyon. i lost 12 pounds by October but then stopped doing the diet and gained back 7. in November, i started back up on the diet and have lost 16 since then. it's coming off slowly, but it's staying off.

so now i'm gonna go have a coke & dance neckid in the livingroom.

Comments

[juan]

I was going to give up bread ALL week this week. but i had one Sandwich. drat.

[SpaceMonkey]

They can have my carbs when they pry them from my cold dead hands.

[sarahk]

jal, if you were doing that popular low-karb thing, you would get 20 lashes for eating a sandwich. with this diet, you only get 4. now go, and eat bread no more.

spacemonkey, that's certainly how i feel about my sugar from cokes & ice cream.

[Donna]

I've heard that before and believe it but cant do it myself. I wish I had your strength!