Could this Be Why?

A couple of nights ago we went to Not Your Average Joe's for dinner and this is what I had:

A peach sangria....mmmm.....

I am not usually a huge bread person, but that bread is soooo good! It has caramelized onions in it, and then served with olive oil that has fresh garlic and red pepper flakes in it. Oh man it is delicious!! We also had appetizers but I didn't take a picture of them, but it was a bacon tomato flatbread, and buffalo wing chicken tenders. They were really good also.
Dinner was chicken piccata:

It was pretty tasty but could have used some salt for sure.
Last but not least:

That strawberry shortcake was yummy! The biscuit part seemed more like a sugar cookie almost but quite as sweet, but played well against the strawberries and ice cream and whipped cream. 

As much as this all seems though, honestly I didn't eat it all.  I had a couple of pieces of the bread, part of the appetizers, only about 1/3 of my dinner, and maybe a 1/3 of dessert if that much. Hector got all the rest.  Still, I realize I probably should have just had a salad. Without the bread. But man oh man that bread....

And I wonder why I don't lose weight?

Wednesday Wackiness

I just read on another weight-related blog this question: "What motivates you to get up in the morning?" Ummm....I have to go to work to pay for the rent and food and bills, etc? Though the thought of my Starbucks iced-venti-quad-in-and-out-upside-down caramel macchiato motivates me to get to Quantico in the mornings.  But, I'm assuming I was supposed to have some other kind of answer, like, I love my job! Another day to get on the treadmill! I get to eat healthy!  No...those wouldn't be my answers.

I swear in some pictures I look like a freakin' blowfish.

They can send a man to the moon but they can't make something to really help a person lose weight as easily as it is to put it on. (Yes I know it is my fault...put down the freakin' fork!!)

I wish I didn't like sweets. No, wait, food. I wish I was one of those people who only eat because they have to. Doesn't sound like much fun, but they probably stay skinnier that way.

I wish I loved to exercise. There are a couple of people on my Facebook that are always posting all the runs they take, when they go to the gym, the miles-long bicycles rides they take....kinda makes you sick of reading it. So I don't. I scroll past.

I should stop watching cooking shows. Well at least Unique Sweets.

I haven't had any B&J's ice cream in 3 days (and I don't have any in the freezer either). (Though now that mentioned it, I want some. Dang!)

A broken jaw would be great right now (well, except for the pain).

Why oh why do I lack such will power????

Pretty Much

Maybe not cheese, but ice cream and cookies and steak and....

I wish I could love exercise like other people do.

I weighed in this morning....***shudders***

Food Shows and Dieting

I admit I watch a lot of the Food Network and The Cooking Channel. Which probably does not help the cause of losing weight. Especially shows like "Unique Sweets", where they travel around the country and find really great bakeries and candy shops, etc and then show all those goodies and describe them.  Yeah...not good for dieters because then I immediately want something sweet to eat while watching it.  Of course the obvious solution is to not watch them but usually there is nothing interesting to watch so....excuses, excuses.


Besides Unique Sweets though, I enjoy watching The Pioneer Woman (who I have 4 of her cookbooks), Valerie Bertinelli's show, Brunch With Bobby, The Kitchen, and now The Kitchen Sink. At least these shows aren't all about sweets, though they can make me hungry. They do have a couple of diet/healthy food shows, but what fun would that be?


At least I don't live by any of the places Unique Sweets  show.

And that isn't going to happen.

Life's Fluctuations

My weight has been yo-yoing a lot, of course of which is my fault.  In California I didn't go crazy eating but I felt more depressed there and ate a couple of B&Js ice cream. Since I've been home I have eaten quite a bit of it because some days I'm okay, others, not so much.  Not that ice cream fixes it, and like I've said before even though my stomach isn't hungry, my brain is like "Give me ice cream!". And then we have Hector, who, when he goes to the commissary, brings home 4 or 5 cartons of it, even after I've said not to. No, I don't have to eat it, but we already know about my major lack of will power.


My weight has gone up and down but I know if I don't do something soon it will just keep going up. I wish my will power would do the same so I would say no.