At least that is the saying right?! Well, given the season etc I have decided to embrace the adage. What does the rest of my life hold? Well…Good food and a trimmer waistline. I vow to prove that you don’t have to starve or deprive yourself of delicious food in order to lose weight. This year I will lose 80 pounds and bring myself down from my current BMI of 35.5 to a healthy BMI of 23. This year I will cook up a storm. I will eat and I will love it.
I will, of course, have to deny myself of some things, at least temporarily. I will give up alcohol (after New Year’s Eve). I can’t seem to find reliable data on the calories in Alcoholic drinks except for light beers which frankly shouldn’t be drunk. Far too watered down. Not that I drink beer in the first place.
I am also going to give up that staple of all college student diets…RAMEN. This will likely be more of a hardship than giving up the booze. Ramen is the guilty pleasure I am often too embarrassed to admit. But no more! I admit it!! I eat ramen for breakfast, cooked until it turns into a pudding of sorts, and generally washed down with a can of Red Bull.
How will I live with out my breakfast of champions?! I must find a suitable replacement. I’m thinking that Congee might just provide the right combination of soft, warm, filling and cheap. After all, it has worked for the Chinese as a breakfast staple for as long as there’s been rice.
Many of the diet experts (that post here, there, and everywhere on the web) seem to agree that keeping a journal of your trials in weight loss helps to shed the pounds. Perhaps all the writing exercises one’s fingers? Well, I won’t scoff.
So…Starting weight: 205 (give or take a few pounds).
