New Year New Me!

So it's almost the end of the year.  This year has been a year of life changes.

On May 27th, my daughter Aria was born.  I had hoped that breastfeeding and pumping milk like a mad woman would help me lose a lot of weight.  But being a working mom of a newborn is more difficult that I thought it would be.  I rarely have any extra time (or energy) during the week to plan and prepare a healthy meal.  In fact a few weeks ago, I chopped up some cabbage, threw it into the microwave and called it dinner.  No meat, no carbs, no fat.  Just plain, microwaved cabbage.

Recently I have come across quite a few new articles about WEIRD diets.  A seller of potatoes recently went on an all potato diet to prove that eating only carbs can be healthy for you!  Another man, a professor, went on a ho-ho, ding-dong and twinkie diet.  And guess what?  Both men lost weight!  In fact the professor ended up with lower cholesterol than when he started!

As I thought about the type of discipline it takes to maintain any diet, I realized that was the key!  I just need DISCIPLINE and a PLAN!  But once the novelty of my new diet wears off, I always veer off trail and into the wilderness of unrestrained eating.  And in this age of multi-culturalism it seems mind-boggling to create a diet that can be so diverse and yet slimming on my waist line.

So here's my plan... I will follow a different diet every few weeks and chronicle what happens.  The guidelines of the diet is that it must be affordable and not be based upon processed or pre-manufactured food.  I will do my best to chronicle how much money I spend as well as the effect on my waist line.  This blog has the potential to be very very embarrassing to me.