Fighting the Dark Cloud of pudge!!

Today I walked home from work.  That is 5km (or 3 miles).  I did it in good time.  I ate less than I usually do (ok not A LOT less, but less) yet I feel bloated.  How can this be possible?  Time of month? I am perimenopausal so that is whenever the little devil decides to show…tomorrow…tonight…next week…next month.

 I find when I feel yucky like this I take a hydroxycut pill.  Yes, they are a weight loss pill, but, in all honesty, I never lost an ounce taking them.  But I think they have an upper in them!!

 Can you remember back to when the concept of dieting first entered your life? I was thinking about that the other day.  Aside from my sadistic family dr who told me to lose 5 pounds when I was 8 (with no guidelines that I am aware of as to how to do that) my first real exposure to dieting was my music teacher in elementary school.  Choristers ( a select group from the choir) met twice a week at lunch to rehearse.  Poor Miss Matthews , our teacher, was HUGE .  (I bet looking back that she weighed less than I do now *sigh*).  And I know we all watched to see what she ate.  All I remember her having was yogurt- which was THE diet food back then.  I knew that because they said so on Laugh-in!  Noting that she never seemed to lose any weight I should have figured out that dieting didn’t really work.

 Of course that does not help me now…or does it?  Oprah’s Jan issue of her magazine talked about rewiring our brains to lose weight.  From my recollection it was how we eat, when we eat, what we eat and why we eat.  Maybe it is time to fish that magazine out.  I actually kept that issue as it made sense at the time.

Other than that, I have to go and shorten my new pants.  I had to bite the bullet and get size 16.  Another *sigh*