Yet another diet blog

Well here it is, something that I have been putting off for a few years- my own blog! It’s a little late in the making, after all I understand that blogs are passe- but what the hell, I have much to say and I might as well say it.

This is a blog about food and food deprivation. Right now I’m focusing on the deprivation part , that’s because I have a wedding coming up in about six months and I'm too damn fat!! Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to be a stick-insect bride but I would like to shed some of the excess poundage before my big day. Really it’s not only about the wedding. I need to get back to a point where I’m not huffing by just walking up the stairs. Where I can get up from the couch comfortably or out of the car with ease. It’s hard to move this much bulk around and although I carry the weight well, there is a difference between “big” and “too big” It is time to make some changes and considering my lifestyle for the past six years the changes are going to seem drastic but they are really not by any means!

How Did this Happen??

Well, I have always been rather large. I was born nine pounds and rumor has it I asked one of the operating room nurses to fetch me a milkshake because I was tired out from my participation in the exhausting cesarean delivery. I was a fat little kid which was weird because my parents and brother were not heavy. I think that I went on my first diet when probably in about grade 4 or 5. It never really worked. Being a pretty resourceful child I quickly learned that I could eat a lot more than what my mother gave me- there was always the ice-cream truck that would come around when she was working the afternoon shift. Life went on and by grade 9 I weighed in at a whopping 209lbs!! There was a lot more dieting and in university I discovered the secrets of bulimia!! After that my weight would fluctuate but eventually I was approaching 300 lbs !! My doctor gave me a warning that she did not want to see me hit that number. Well, things changed- I had been involved in a long relationship and that ended. I lost over 100 lbs through exercise and cutting out pastas with cream sauces and lots of cheese,( that was and still is one of my favorite foods!!) By the time I was forty I was on top of the world- looking good, single and going out with lots of losers.Then my mom got sick and I was on antidepressants. I was too tired to go to the gym- I just felt like sleeping. The weight came back on in five pound increments. My mom died and I was so sad because I lost pretty much the most favorite person in my life. I just kept on gaining weight. Then I met the sweetest most darling man and he didn’t mind if I was chubby in fact he enjoyed feeding me! We explored the pleasures of delicious foods and wine together. I found it hard to believe that he had been a vegetarian for many years because he sure had a fondness for rich cuts of meat. Here is a typical Sunday meal- a big rib-eye steak, some pasta tossed with butter, garlic, and regiano., some Swiss chard and a bottle of really nice Australian Shiraz- or Californian.Oh yes... an evening like that would probably end with a serving of Haggen Daz. You probably get the picture by now. I can’t say that I am one of these fat women who try everything or eat very little and just can’t lose. Hell no, my best friends are blue cheese and butter (well almost any dairy fat makes the cut). I'm too fat because I ate too much of many of the wrong foods and I did not exercise enough. That is about to change.

The purpose of this blog is to explore different eating plans. My goal is to lose 60 pounds in seven months. That seems like a lot - but it’s not . I’ve got a lot to lose so it should not be too much of a reach. I hope to try out a plan for a few weeks , write about the pros and the cons and then switch it up to see how other things work. In the end I hope to develop a plan that works best for me and my lifestyle.

Plan #1 Weight -Loss Cleanse!!
I found this cleanse in a book called DETOX CLEANSES by a British journalist named Helen Foster. I picked the book up a second hand store and it’s basically some well marketed eye-candy that features a lot of good information on cleansing, getting massages, using aromatherapy etc. The photos are very nice- typical shots of enticing, delicious looking smoothies.Slim women,who look good from the outside but are probably full of toxins, doing simple yoga poses or running along the beach!! It’s not a fast, in fact there is a lot of food to eat each day. The diet is based on lots of fruits and juices. The focus is on chelating foods; apples, watercress, avocados,garlic,beets. These are supposed to bind to pollutants in the body and help to detox them from the body!? Who the hell knows how that works but it sounds good and I’m up for it. I’m also going to attempt to detox my liver a t the same time by taking some Milk Thistle on a daily basis.This seems to be the number #1 recommended thing for helping out the ole liver and believe me, mine needs as much help as it can get!! I will go into more detail about the cleanse on my next post.