I discovered with mild joy that I was able to take my belt up a notch and still allow my pants to fit comfortably. It must be my changed eating habits. I haven’t weighted myself yet, but I like the idea that my waist is trimmer. I attribute it to 30 push ups a day, just like Brandon’s Fresh New Way.

So, I’ve uncooled the gym like a motha fucka again. Anybody whose anybody doesn’t go to the gym, but instead gacks out on diet pills. I’ve decided to compile a list of diet pills I have tried, just for shits and giggles.

First there was the nectar of the gods, never to be replaced by anthing, METABOLIFE. If I could buy ephedra illegally and risk deportation, I would. Next there was METABOLIFT-after Ephedra was banned. It totally sucked, I don’t even remember who makes it. Then I tried METABOLIFE ULTRA which just gave me a caffeiene headache. Let’s see, then I tried LEPTOPRIL, which made me feel like I was crazy, but a hungry crazy bitch. My latest purchase you may be wondering? TRIPMSPA with none other than Anna Nicole as a spokeswoman.

See, I thought I was done with these wacky pills but I heard about TRIMSPA twice. Once from my sister in law, and again from Betsy. Once Betsy told me her trainer recommened it, I went out to the nearest whatever and bought it.

So. Today is my first day, and it seems to be working! I’m not all jittery, but my appetite has definetely decreased today.
I should also note, that although I did uncool the gym, I made walking on the waterfront very cool again. It’s cool because I take Ethan out there and if anybody out there can do math, I am getting paid for working out, cause I ‘m with the kid.
Additi0nally, Kyle and I are eating well these days, while cooking out of my handy dandy weight watchers cook books.

Last night, Nicole made me a delicious dinner of Halibut steaks and a marinera sauce. I guess she got the recipe from some Weight Watchers cookbook. I also had a nice little salad and some wine.

The real kicker though, were these kick ass super fluffly brownies that she made with non-fat yogurt instead of the egg/flour/lard combo that most brownie mixes rock.

The end result was about a 600 calorie meal that wasn’t shitty.

As a kid, my favorite cereals were Life (Of “Mikey likes it”fame) and, I shit you not, Honey Comb. Dee-lish!

I made an earlier post about Nicole’s Cereal Diet theory, then I stumbled across this article that stated “Breakfast cereal helps keep teen girls slim”.

As a teen girl, I think I am quite qualified to agree:

The basic premise is that those who skip breakfast eat foods higher in fat content during the day. Those who eat breakfast give get their metabolism moving earlier, and don’t make such rash decisions for their lunch/snacks.

So not eating breakfast pretty much says that you will be freakin’ starving and shovel the first sign of food down your throat, like Jack in the Box or some such shit.

Like anything, it’s not a cure-all. I really liked the following quote:

“you can’t walk away saying, I’m going to eat cereal and lose weight”

Anyone who thinks that thinks like the damn bulimic who binges and purges and has puke teeth.

yep. thats right. My goal is to work out at least 4 days a week. Last week I only worked out 2 days but the week before I worked out 4 days. I have been doing 30 minutes elliptical machine, and 30 minutes fast walk at a 3 incline. My goal is to burn around 500 calories a session, or at least keep my heart rate up for at least 30 mintues. I hate working out. It still sucks.