Wine for my men....

It's the punchline of an old joke... but I noticed that after drinking a few glasses of wine last night, I am feeling bloated and uncomfortable today.

I counted the points for the wine, so it's not that I overindulged. But I got on the scale this morning and my weight had fluctuated up by several pounds over yesterday.

Since there are really no mistakes when you are learning a new lifestyle, I am just going to chalk it up to experience and know that I have to be particularly careful about how much wine I drink from now on. I think one or two glasses is the max. Which of course is far healthier anyway.

In other news, I had an absolutely spectacular dinner of grilled lamb, roasted ratatouille, grilled asparagus and bulgur wheat pilaf. It was so yummy.

And my mom gave me a vegetarian cookbook which has all the nutrition information for each recipe. I can't wait to start experimenting!

On Kirstie and other thoughts on a Friday

I watched a snippet of Kirstie Ally's interview with Oprah on youtube. She's gained back all of her weight after the Jenny Craig debacle... and now is touting her own weight loss program, on which she has claimed to have lost 20 lbs in 5 weeks.

Ugh.

Kirstie, we all know how to lose weight. That part isn't complicated.

When you have kept your weight off for a few years, then I might be interested to know your secrets. But until then, not so much.

In the mean time, I had Greek yogurt, half a banana, half a cup of pineapple and some fiber one cereal for breakfast.

Today I am eating healthy.