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So the month of indulgence is over. My anniversary, birthday with a couple of dinners and my gal pal's birthday dinner have NOT been kind to my hind quarters and mid section. I have decided to stop looking away and get bizaaay! That rhymes.

I have to stop making like I can eat what I want and drink to excess and never see the pounds on the scale. I have to stop kidding myself. You know how tiresome it is when someone is constantly teasing you anyway. Right? I sort of wanna punch myself in the lower mandible right now.

If you are interested, here is the plan:

1) 80 ounces of water a day - pure water. Not tea or coffee counted in. 80 ounces of water straight up, not shaken NOR stirred.
2) 6 small meals saving the substantial meal for the evening. I know it's the opposite of what you have been told for a million years, but that's what works for me both physically and mentally.
3) Each meal has to have more protein than anything else.
4) No more than 1400 calories in a day but preferably 1000 a day during the losing portion. That means writing down EVERY ... SINGLE ... CALORIE I consume.
5) Exercise ... every day. Carrying laundry baskets up and down the steps doesn't count. Picking up my 10 pound cat several times in a day, not in the exercise column. 45 minutes of sustained walking for me, you do what you want.

So instead of dreading it, I'm choosing to look at it like this wonderful thing I'm doing for myself. I'm viewing it as a fun challenge. It's a project. I am a project. I am an ongoing, neverending, all consuming project. I am that kind of project where, like, some days you look at the project and feel very proud and pleased and other days you look at it like there is still so much work to be done. But you wanna do the work because the project is special. You also know ... you will never finish it. And that's okay on some days cuz you like having projects but it can also occassionally feel exhausting. I am choosing to not be exhausted by the project that is me. Not this week.

I'll let you know tomorrow if I was able to get through even one day following all the rules. Wait, I'm gonna choose to call them guidelines and suggestions. That's one great thing the Republican party has taught me. Rules are sort of ... liquid.