This Week Oyve Mostly Been Eatin' Grass.

I can't particularly say I am a salad lover.  I really just can't see the appeal in eating something which tastes like grass...  

Another bugbear of mine is when someone says "I can't believe you don't like [insert food of your choice here], it doesn't taste of anything"...  Why bloody eat it if it doesn't taste of anything?  But I can guarantee you it DOES taste of something, otherwise I would like it wouldn't I?  Who do you know who doesn't like the taste of nothing?  You don't hear anyone ever saying I can't stand the taste of nothing, it tastes rubbish?  Exactly.  

Rant over.

As I was saying...  Salads.  I'm not a fan.  But due to the fact that I struggle to loose weight (thank you thyroid) and when I do my winning streak never lasts long and I soon plateau, causing me to become agitated and annoyed with myself until I finally give up and reach for the pizza...  but this time I NEED to loose some lbs...  I also WANT to do it.  Why pay a photographer an obscene amount of money to take pictures of your wedding only to not want to look at them because you don't like the way you look?

Fat Fighters

Instead of having some organisation or other liberate me of my money in return for telling me I am fat and giving me a complex plan to follow, which means I need to buy a magic calculator which operates on some form of Voodoo, and also purchasing a scoring system bible along with several recipe books which tells me I need to mix my ham with vinegar whilst drinking lettuce smoothies...  Na.  been there, done that, paid my fees.  I know what I need to do, I even know how to do it.  Its staying motivated which is the hard part.  That and what to have for lunch at work.  

I need something portable, quick and easy.  Sandwiches tend to have waaaaay too many wasted calories for such a small vessel.  So I have been experimenting with the salad...

For the first time in my life I have found myself uttering the words "Ooh what a lovely salad".  I am really not impressed with myself one bit...  A self confessed salad dodger saying they enjoyed a salad?  What is the world coming to!?  What next?  Ryvita for breakfast?

Anyway... 

The methodology behind getting Big Dawn to be Not-So Big Dawn is purely calorie counting and getting off my bum more often.  To assist me in my quest to reduce my bum from the size of a small planet to more of an acceptable high street clothing kind of size I have downloaded a cool little app for my Android phone called MyFitnessPal.  Its highly addictive and has a database of thousands of foods and even a barcode scanner!  It tells me how many calories I have eaten, how many calories I have left, what nutrients I have consumed and also lets me track my progress.  Its quite nifty really for a free app!  So now I can log what I have eaten whilst power walking to work from the car! (Well its a start isn't it?)*

www.myfitnesspal.com

So here goes nothing... Salad dodger becomes salad lover?  We shall see.

* May I add in my defence, I have a 60-mile round trip to work and I park a few minutes walk away from the office instead of in the actual car park to allow me to actually have the aforementioned walk...