I want to lose weight but i'm mindful of having failed so many times in the past. I've been looking for a different method to inspire me and i saw one in a dream last night. I've always been impressed with a method of quitting smoking i heard about. (I don't smoke.) You get a cigarette case and fill it with your day's allotment of cigs. You start out at your current use and then cut it down by one per week until you're down to zero.

I thought, why don't i apply this to dieting?! So i'm starting out at my current intake and cutting down by 100 cals a week until i get to 1500. This way it'll be gradual and i'll have time to adjust and get to the grocery store and get cooking. I figure i have been eating 2500 cals recently (yes i know: oink, oink!) so today i will start my first week at 2400. I'll only weigh monthly. (I can't weigh-in today because i already ate breakfast so i'll do that tomorrow. I figure i'm about 220. Yikes!)

Hopefully by doing something different i will have more success.

I've also been exercising since December, for my blood-pressure and mood, on my doctors orders. I'm up to 20 minutes on the tread-mill. I try for every day but it's usually about four or five times a week. My muscles are really sore. I haven't noticed any improvement in mood but my blood pressure is responding nicely.

P.S.: A package of Lifesavers Gummy Sours is 630 calories and i've been having about one a day! Eee!!!