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Let me talk a little bit about Weight Watchers.

Now, I think WW is a fine organization and a good plan and all that. It didn't work for me and here's why: If I am on a point system and I get, say ... 15 points in a day then what I will do is eat 4 points all day and save 11 points for my evening meal. Okay so that might actually work for some folks but since I have this weird whacked out adrenal situation, I didn't lose weight on that program. Not only did I not lose weight, but i would often GAIN a tenth or two tenths of a pound. And I was REALLY disciplined. If I had 15 points I would eat 15 points. Sometimes I would eat 14 points and save points for the weekend and ... look, I followed the program - is what I'm saying and it didn't work. I still suggest giving it a try if you haven't because it might work for you.

All of that mumbojumbo being said, WW has some ROCKIN' cookbooks. I have two now and I am diggin' both fairly largely. The latest one I got is called Weight Watchers 20 Minute Recipes and on the front ... a gorgeous picture of a stack of chocolate cookies. RIGHT?! And here's the thing, at the end of every recipe they have listed the points AND the calories and fiber and fat and all that. I am interested in calories and protein and so it works VERY nicely.

Here's the best thing though ... the recipes don't taste like they are low cal and so my honey eats them also. Night before last I made Salisbury steak with gravy. Oh ... you read that RIGHT, gang. GRAVY! And I ATE it. I don't even EAT red meat. But I used sirloin and it was only 7% fat and it was 217 calories per. I am NOT shitting you! I served it with seasoned snap peas and it rocked.

So I'm doing VERY well with the "no bad stuff" task, but I don't think I'm doing as well calorically as I want to do. That's okay, though cuz I got really serious about it yesterday and I did okay (1150 calories). I'll let you know as I go but in the meantime think about picking up that cookbook. The recipes are quick and easy, tasty and low cal and when YOU are doing the cooking you control the "bad stuff" quotient.

I hope I can maintain my excitement for the full two weeks. Anyone wanna wager?