Friday, January 30, 2009

I’m Going to Lose 41 Pounds! – Guaranteed?

A little over 1 year ago, we plunked down $325 and a few days later received a box of food… Well, at least

Nutrisystems called it food. My wife, for whom the “food” was intended held a differing opinion.

Ok, so we live in Texas.  Everything that was capable of melting was melted.  But other than that, the packaging was pretty good.  The food wasn’t.

I have to admit, even though I hadn’t studied the “system”, I knew there was no way my wife would follow the regimen.  So within days (2), we ate some of the better-tasting stuff, and gave the rest to St. Bernadette's.

Our problem is that I love to cook!  It’s my hobby.  I do the grocery shopping, and I do ALL the cooking!  My better half, Lynne, cleans up behind me.

In the last 10 years, my love for cooking and my eating habits enabled me to balloon up to 225 lbs.  Then this year between Thanksgiving and Christmas I added another 24 pounds.  Way too much.  And I felt like crap.  Even though I got it down to 241 a couple of weeks into January, I knew I needed a real diet to seriously lose the weight.

I didn’t want to go to meetings, and didn’t want to try a plan where I had to weigh portions, etc.