uuugggghhh, the diet

I am not having fun on this diet. It is at a point of just dragging on right now and I am not enjoying it. The fact that I made my kids cookies tonight and lacked the will power not to nibble a bit has absolutely nothing to do with it. I had to nibble a bit. I tried making snickerdoodles which happen to be one of my favorites and, dang it, I have never made them before so I had to sample. I mean come on, really, I couldn't feed these to my precious children without first making sure they were edible. Happy to report that they were. I didn't follow a recipe, just added cinnamon to a sugar cookie mix someone dropped off for Christmas the week I was gone. I looked at a recipe or two online and I thought it would work. It did. I will follow an actual recipe the next time I make them and I won't be dieting then so I won't feel at all guilty about stealing a nibble or two maybe even three or four. Who am I kidding, I will eat half the bowl of dough. That is, after all, the best part of cookies.

Anyway, the diet is dragging on and it isn't much fun. The thought of eating an orange makes me want to die. I don't even want to think about pounding another heart of romaine. I splurged on a rotisserie chicken today because I thought it would be delicious but it was terrible. Terrible is a bit harsh, it was mediocre at best. When I think of rotisserie chicken I am afraid that the standard I use is that of Publix supermarket in Florida. Their Mojo flavored chicken was the best. Let me also plug quickly their sandwiches - the Ultimate on 5 grain with garlic pickles and loaded with all other fixins is perhaps my favorite sandwich. Well, I think tomorrow I need to have a steak. Yup, steak and some asparagus. Another watermelon is in order as well. I picked one up last week and it was amazing. I normally am not a big watermelon fan but on this diet I am. Even at $4 for a smallish watermelon.

And so I am counting down the days until I make it to maintenance and have just a little more freedom then now. Saturday the 5th of February will be a great day indeed. Of course I will still have 3 solid weeks before I can open the flood gates but at least I will be able to enjoy up to 15 nuts in a day. I am afraid I need to avoid making cookies until maintenance is done. It is too hard to resist and there is no reason to put myself in a position to fail.

I don't think I remembered last night to record Jack's prayer. It went like this:
"Heavenly Father, Thank you for this day. Please bless that no bed bugs will climb up the ladder and crawl in my ear and lay eggs on my brain. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." I thought it was one for the record books. Nobody likes to have bed bug eggs on the brain, well, I don't anyway and neither does Jack.

It is time to hit the elliptical. I am thinking that Invictus is in order as my entertainment tonight. Good movie especially since it is a true story and occurred during the time that I was serving in South Africa. That was an amazing time. Mmmm, love it.