This ain't no diet blog

This Ain't No Diet Blog

So, I just had my fourth baby. She's adorable, and I absolutely love everything about her. But I'm not loosing any of the weight. Partly because I'm old and slow, and partly because I'm running out of time (and energy) and eating out. Like, eating out a LOT. So, here is a record of what I'm going to do about it. 

First off, I need to start keeping track of how much I'm eating. It's a slow start, but I've decided to use the MyFitnessPal app. They have a big database of calories, and you can log exercise (if you do any). My eating is out of control. This is step one. 

Step two is to get moving. I have joined several gyms through the years, and have never gone to any of them for more than a month. So, I'm not wasting my money on a gym membership that I never use. Also, I'm not really into exercise of any kind, so I have to find something I like to do. 

Now, as the title of this post implies, I'm not into diet foods. Bland, uninteresting, and substitute foods are not for me. But I do think the key to loosing weight is in not eating out. Just picture me on a high horse rambling about processed foods with huge portions, and that'll about cover it. Now that I'm done complaining about the villainy of take away food, I'm going to reiterate that I'm not going on some cray-cray diet either. I'm not substituting low-fat cheese, leaving out the carbs, or basing my meals around quinoa. I've tried that stuff, and nothing will make be run to the closest drive-thru than suffering through that again.

So, in a nutshell, if I want it, I can have it, I just have to make it. See? Simple plan. Now to find something to get me moving... 

Welcome to my blog!

Warning: I have never taken an Economics class. Nor did I spend my childhood in the kitchen learning how to cook at Grandma's apron strings. In fact, I never did anything domestic until I hit my third trimester with my second child. It was when I was at the grocery store, picking out something for dinner, and saw premade pizza dough for sale, and thought how fun that would be. Then I decided that it was an expensive blob of wet flour, and I could make it myself. Since then, I have spent hours googling all sorts of kitchen terms, and calling my mother to ask questions like "how do you boil eggs?" (that's right, my mom knows how to cook, I just had never asked her before...).

This blog is a place for me to keep track of what I have tried, what worked, (and what flopped, there are lots of those) and fun things I've tried around the house and yard.