Lunch.
There are days when I am so busy that lunch is not on my mind throughout the morning. "Oh, it is 1:00 p.m. and time for lunch." "Oh, it is noon, I have to order something for lunch."
But then, there are days like today, a little slow in library land, when lunch becomes LUNCH, and I cannot wait to run downstairs and devour what I have waiting for me in the Staff Room fridge.
Of course, today is a bit different, for I am starting my 549th diet program. It's called the Zone Diet, and it will be delivered to my door each morning with three meals and two snacks. I am very excited by this diet because the food is supposed to be gourmet and it will be as close to my dream of having a personal chef a la Oprah as I am ever going to get.
It's funny how relative things are. If I weighed now what I weighed when I started my first diet, I would be thrilled. But no, I was not as skinny as those Seventeen Magazine models I looked at all the time, so I started the Dr. Stillman diet. This required the usual eight glasses of water and was mostly protein, so my meals consisted of meat. Lots of meat. I reached my goal weight while Larry was in Europe, and it lasted for a few years, through our engagement and until we got married and I started making Mrs. Shurman's chicken for dinner three times a week. (cream of mushroom soup, sherry and sour cream). So, I joined Weight Watchers, the first of a number of times in my life. And I did quite well... until my sons were born.
Then it was the Bloomingdale's Eat Healthy Diet, a series of five workshops with a manual. This worked quite well, but, in reality, the real cause of my weight loss might have been the fact that I took this workshop with my friend, Jane, and I laughed off the weight. I still use the gaszpacho recipe from that diet, and I still have the workbook. For anyone who knows me well, they know that the main attraction of this diet was the fact that it had Bloomingdale's as part of its name, and the workshops were actually held in the store at Riverside Square.
When I turned 50, it was back to Weight Watchers, but now it was the points system. I was so psyched and the points system really worked well for me at the time, so that into my 50th year, I had actually lost 50 pounds and was so happy that I nearly went backrupt spending money on new clothes.
And then the weight crept up again. That's the hard part, the maintenance, and it's even harder when you really love to eat, and I really love to eat.
The latest was a short stint with the low carb diet and a short stint with Jenny Craig. And so now I begin the Zone diet. Wish me luck, because I just had lunch and it was delicious, but now I keep thinking about dinner!
There are days when I am so busy that lunch is not on my mind throughout the morning. "Oh, it is 1:00 p.m. and time for lunch." "Oh, it is noon, I have to order something for lunch."
But then, there are days like today, a little slow in library land, when lunch becomes LUNCH, and I cannot wait to run downstairs and devour what I have waiting for me in the Staff Room fridge.
Of course, today is a bit different, for I am starting my 549th diet program. It's called the Zone Diet, and it will be delivered to my door each morning with three meals and two snacks. I am very excited by this diet because the food is supposed to be gourmet and it will be as close to my dream of having a personal chef a la Oprah as I am ever going to get.
It's funny how relative things are. If I weighed now what I weighed when I started my first diet, I would be thrilled. But no, I was not as skinny as those Seventeen Magazine models I looked at all the time, so I started the Dr. Stillman diet. This required the usual eight glasses of water and was mostly protein, so my meals consisted of meat. Lots of meat. I reached my goal weight while Larry was in Europe, and it lasted for a few years, through our engagement and until we got married and I started making Mrs. Shurman's chicken for dinner three times a week. (cream of mushroom soup, sherry and sour cream). So, I joined Weight Watchers, the first of a number of times in my life. And I did quite well... until my sons were born.
Then it was the Bloomingdale's Eat Healthy Diet, a series of five workshops with a manual. This worked quite well, but, in reality, the real cause of my weight loss might have been the fact that I took this workshop with my friend, Jane, and I laughed off the weight. I still use the gaszpacho recipe from that diet, and I still have the workbook. For anyone who knows me well, they know that the main attraction of this diet was the fact that it had Bloomingdale's as part of its name, and the workshops were actually held in the store at Riverside Square.
When I turned 50, it was back to Weight Watchers, but now it was the points system. I was so psyched and the points system really worked well for me at the time, so that into my 50th year, I had actually lost 50 pounds and was so happy that I nearly went backrupt spending money on new clothes.
And then the weight crept up again. That's the hard part, the maintenance, and it's even harder when you really love to eat, and I really love to eat.
The latest was a short stint with the low carb diet and a short stint with Jenny Craig. And so now I begin the Zone diet. Wish me luck, because I just had lunch and it was delicious, but now I keep thinking about dinner!
posted by boomer blogster at 9:54 AM
4 Comments:
Joanie, Good Luck. I still have some string cheese and a juice box if you get to hungry. I hope this works well for you...Shari is still doing great!
Kim: It's about time you offered me a juice box!!! Thanks for the good wishes.
Shari...WOW!
Boring, huh? We're still stuck at lunch at the end of August. You'd better get something fresh on this site before deciding that boring football postings (that at least are topical and current) should be bashed!
At least write something about dinner at this point.
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