THE DIET STARTS TOMORROW

WASTING TIME...

2012-02-24T02:17:00.000-05:00

WEIGHT CHANGE +3 TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS –10

Yesterday I weighed in… considering what has been happening I am not shocked. I started going to this ‘diet center’ It’s in a house turned office. I found it on Groupon. Basically, I aim for 1400 cals a day then I go to the ‘house’, I weigh in and get a B12 shot. It hasn’t really been helping, mind you neither was the buffet at the Orleans.

I have also started working out at this place called the KoKo Fit Club. You get set up on a computer memory stick with your height, weigh and you do a series of exercises to determine your strength. Then you plug the stick into different machines and it becomes your personal trainer, it tell you how many reps, what weight and how to set up the machine. You do about 30 minutes weights on a universal style machine. Then you do only 15 mins cardio but the cardio you do is intense, and you listen to a iPod with a trainer telling you how to adjust your speed and cross ramp. i like it. You focus on what you are doing! And it's cheaper than a trainer. I just wonder if I am working hard enough.

I only have 2 weeks left in Las Vegas and I need to get productive… fast.

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS... STAYS AROUND YOUR WAIST

2012-02-20T21:25:00.000-05:00

Las Vegas has not been the full focus, diet-centric time I had hoped it would be.

I just completed 5 days of shows at the Orleans Casino. I stayed there, in the hotel for the 5 days. I was handed 15 FREE passes for the buffet. Many, many free cocktails. Great shows (except Sunday night – but that is another story) which led to late nights. Friends, fiancée, gambling, snacks, NO workouts. It was a diet nightmare.

Right before I went to the Orleans I joined a outdoor bootcamp class. I went to 2 classes, they were good, harsh but good. Then I woke up the next day and I had REALLY injured my neck/ upper back. Like REALLY hurt my back. I was borderline crippled. I had to dose up on pills and tiger balm and just take it easy.

Now my neck/back is fine. So starting today I am 100% on track!

Because I have so much time before the wedding I have been lacking focus. Not anymore. I watched 2 episodes of the Biggest Loser back to back. FOCUS. I will weigh in on Wednesday. YIKES!!!

IS RUINER A WORD? WELL.... YOU KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING...

2012-02-04T21:11:00.000-05:00

I have been AWOL!!!! My last week in NYC I ended up having 10 shows in 5 days – on the weekend I was in West Nyack, NY about 45 mins north of where I lived. Great shows… but being at the club was a diet ruiner. Free food and booze. And comedy club food.... the worst food on the planet!!! Fries with cheese, cheeseburgers with fries, popcorn, bacon in a cup... you get the idea. And did I mention FREE BOOZE. I’m off red wine and back on the vodka. More than one glass of red wine is gross.

So that was the weekend, then the stress of goodbyes, packing and moving rounded out the week. I met with a bunch of my trainers from my old gym for a drink and a goodbye. Then I hopped a plane to LA, met up with my friends Lynn and Claire and drove to Las Vegas. We proceeded to have three days of too much fun and diet horror.

Anyway, they are gone, I am here, secluded in a gated community. (don’t ask) I’m just cooking and eating with the food that is in the house. I have a few bootcamps, gyms and diet plans that are about to start. Tonight I made my usual 99% fat free turkey stir fry - but instead of garlic/onion POWDER that I usually use, the stuff here was garlic SALT. I made the saltest dish ever. Gross. Right now I'm thirsty.

There is no scale in this house, so I didn't weigh in... which is good and bad...

I can't let a change of plans and life getting busy be such a diet ruiner!!!

LOSING THE SAME 25 POUNDS

2012-01-24T21:32:00.000-05:00

WEIGHT CHANGE -0 TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS –13

I want this weight off and it feels like it is taking forever. I need to stay consistent!! To reach my goal I need to lose 1-2 a week, every week.

I DID THIS ALREADY

I’m in the phase where I am bitter because last year at this time I was about 15 pounds lighter. Which has nothing to do with anything... but I have lost the same 25 pounds over and over and OVER. It is stupid! I get into the whole "I shouldn't be this fat to start with' frame of mind. Which doesn't do anything good... as it's too late, I am this weight. it's what's happening now!

NYC IS DANGEROUS

I’m in my last week in NYC and I am hitting some favourite spots. Unfortunately my favourite haunts are places that have deluxe food and booze. Yesterday i went to Katz’s Deli for lunch. A delicious and I’m sure a very calorically irresponsible pastrami sandwich - I only had half. Then went bar hopping ( I only drank red wine - gross) with a few friends.

Today I worked out and ate super healthy. I hope I am still on track!

MY BEST FRIEND VODKA

2012-01-19T09:50:00.001-05:00

WEIGHT CHANGE -1 TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS –13

Down a pound.

MY BEST FRIEND

I hadn't had a drink in 13 days... for those of you who don't drink, this is an accomplishment. And it's not like I am drinking alone, at home, like a person with an issue... it's just such a part of my social life. Drinks with friends, drinks at a show, drinks with a nice dinner. Now when I say drinks I mean vodka. It is my only booze. No beer or wine, just vodka.... then I read this

"A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that drinking even as little as 1 ounce of vodka can slow your metabolism by as much as 73%."

Yikes! If that is true - that is my nightmare! How could my best friend vodka betray me this way? That is awful. So last night, when I had a few social obligations (I have been hiding in the house - only leaving to go to the gym) I had red wine.

A - Apparently red wine has actual heath benefits (ask any Italian) and people who drink two glasses a day actually gain less weight...
B - I don't really like it... I don't hate it, but it doesn't go down the way vodka does...

So red wine, you are my booze of choice.... for now!

ULTRA! MEGA! ACTIVE!

2012-01-16T12:58:00.000-05:00

WEIGHT CHANGE -2 TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS –12

Down 2 pounds… the two pounds from before.... anyway, better than not. Finally feeling better so had a great 30 min X bike followed by a 60 min TRX work out! I am exhausted and my tricepts are tender.

I only have 2 weeks left in NYC until I go full force in Vegas. Time to get serious! I saw a Dr. Oz episode (stick with me here) about a product called SAFSlim… Safflower oil that supposedly reduces belly fat. Anyway, I went into GNC just to check it out and ended up with a box full of packs of 7 pills to be taken once a day called Women’s ULTRA MEGA Active. What a name. There is also 2 times more D-3! What that means is beyond me but is seems exciting!

ULTRA! MEGA! ACTIVE!

STARVE OR FEED A COLD?

2012-01-13T19:17:00.000-05:00

WEIGHT CHANGE +2 TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS –10

Plus 2 pounds?? I am sick but I still don't know what is going on!! I have still been working out and logging my calories. I have no idea why I am not losing weight. Granted after my workout, all I do is lie on the couch watching Storage Wars and napping. Too sick! The only time being sick has any benefit on your diet is the flu or food poisoning. A cold is just a waste of time.

Besides the cold, I do feel thinner and stronger. The scale has until Monday to pull it together. And by then I will have gotten rid of this cold.

On the bridal front I have officially booked the chapel. Very exciting.

I know you are not supposed to be tied to the scale but this early on it needs to be steadily going down.

HAUNTED BY THE (fat) GHOST OF NYE PAST

2012-01-11T12:14:00.000-05:00

WEIGHT CHANGE -0 TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS –12

No weight change. Not a huge deal as I have been weighing in every other day and I have dropped 12 pounds in less than a week. I have been working out hard and eating pure. I am also fighting a cold so I'm a little blah.

I just took a look at my NYE pictures and I am being haunted by one of them…

Now it on it’s own, is not a good picture… but it is brutal weight wise. I cropped everyone else out of this pic and I am going to use this as my ‘before’ picture. I almost didn't post this (as it is gross) but then I thought - this is what I was walking around like on NYE - it's not like it will shock anyone.

28 WEEKS LATER

2012-01-09T19:35:00.000-05:00

WEIGHT CHANGE -2 TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS –12

Getting back into the swing of working out. I took Sat off, Sunday I had my ass handed to me with a one hour 'rock body' class followed by a hour long Rebounding class. Then today 30 minute X bike followed by an hour of TRX. I'm tired. I'm sore. I'm out of shape.

I met my friend Mary downtown this afternoon, fantastic Manhattan afternoon - sushi lunch then shopping... but then she lured me to the "Big Gay Ice Cream Shop' this is a NYC cultish store/truck that has very deluxe soft ice cream cones. We had planned on going last summer and never made it! I had the 'Bea Arthur' (soft serve vanilla ice cream, Dulce de Leche, crushed Nilla wafers) Obviously delicious!

I am feeling serious guilt about this cone. It was so unnecessary! But I will use this guilt to eat perfectly tomorrow... I'm not weighing in again until Wed...

28 WEEKS LATER

'28 Weeks Later' is not just a horror movie about a virus outbreak...in 28 weeks I need to go in and have my wedding dress fitted. REAL horror! That is 7 weeks before wedding week. This is my first goal. Ideally I'd like (and need) to be as close to my goal as possible. Currently, my dress is sitting in my Matron of Honour's basement closet... waiting to see how much will be trimmed...

SO FAR, SO GOOD... BUT BORED.

2012-01-07T21:30:00.001-05:00

WEIGHT CHANGE -10 TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS –10

Down 10 pounds! Awesome!! I know that 10 pounds is 99% bloat from the holiday season but I don’t care, I’ll take it. I could feel cocktail sausage rolls rolling around my body every time I worked out. That was all weight I put on over Christmas and New Years, anyway!

THIS IS WAS DINNER

It’s only day 3 and I am BORED. I’m eating things that are fine but nothing really tasty.

5oz of grilled chicken and yesterday's broccoli. It was fine. I'm full. Eat to live not live to eat... right?? It's good. I need to be boring. This being said...

I'M GOING TO VEGAS

I have decided to go to self proclaimed fat camp. I am 'house sitting' for my friend in Vegas for all of Feb and March. Two months, in the desert...well a nice house in the suburbs That woman from 'Eat, Pray, Love' got to travel the world and figure out her shit - why can't I hide out in LV? I also have a flexible life but I don't have the money to go to Italy or India or Bali. Plus I love Vegas. But usually for me Vegas is $2 hotdogs and free vodka red bulls.

GAME PLAN

These first three months are crucial. I have 70 pounds to lose - I need to be losing 10 pounds a month to get to my goal. And I know for a fact the next 10 pounds will not come off as easily.

251 DAYS - THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS

2012-01-05T14:13:00.000-05:00

TODAY'S STARTING WEIGHT 0

There are 251 days until my wedding.

Let the diet begin.