Oh January, how I love you

There’s nothing like January 1st to help me go from none to all. And I am totally at ALL. There is no fat-off at my work, since there are only 6 people in my little teaching unit and I am the only fatty. But I am having a fat-off contest with my sister, although we haven’t decided on a prize yet. So far I am doing very well, I weighed 211.2 lbs on January first and this morning I am down 5.8 pounds to 205.4. I have the chance to exercise 2 hours every day with no child-care conundrums, I can ride my bike 30 minutes each way to work and then I can go to the hour-long masters swim workout at 11 everyday that is about 100 yards from my office. I did at least one of those things every day last week, and 2 days I did both. My goal this week is to do them both every day, although that has been messed up by the furlough day I had to take today. But I did my new Wii Active game tonight, it was quite challenging, so that makes up for it a little bit. It has a very hard inline skating thing that I just cannot figure out, but it is a nice game, I get to watch my fatty avatar make all the movements I am making. And it is very hard to cheat. It is supposed to rain torrentially for the next two days, but I am planning to ride anyway and get soaked.

My eating plan is to eat less junk, more whole grains, and eat more small meals and only when I am hungry. I have done too many limiting-type diets in my life to try one again, I just need to figure out how to eat when I’m hungry and stop before I’m stuffed. I bought Alicia Silverstone’s Kind Diet book and have read most of it. It’s mainly stuff I already know, and she’s pretty reasonable, but she does get kind of kooky with body alkalinity and sea vegetables. Some of the recipes sound good, and I did make some weight-loss tea tonight with million dollar umeboshi plums. I’m sure it does nothing to help weight loss but it didn’t taste terrible.

I have been cooking up a storm lately, I have to get better at taking pictures. Here is a crappy one from my phone since I cant find my camera. Tonight I made the aloo gobi and Swiss chard with caramelized onions from the Vegan Table and brown rice. I have made aloo gobi 3 times now, it is one of my favorite recipes in that book so far. The chard was good, I have never cooked chard before. I have lots of leftovers for lunches, and I still have the 18-step macaroni and cheese, pad see ew, tempeh sloppy joes, and roasted Brussels sprouts in the fridge from this last week of cooking too. I guess I don’t get to cook dinner tomorrow night.