Healthy food that is still obnoxiously high in calories. Glazed Salmon, Brown Rice Pilaf, and sugar snap peas…almost eight hundred calories! Grilled chicken and rice Burrito…seven hundred and fifty calories and nineteen hundred milligrams of sodium? As one of my favorite food writers warns, “Don’t Trust Others to Cook for You.”

Thanks for the handout of food guide/recipes – I’ve been juicing practically every morning, of course my husband has to clean up (smile) but I make him juice also. The lentil soup and the Grilled Veggie Casserole is out of this world. Chopping is the most time consuming but is worth it.

I’ve always been an exerciser to include long distant running for years and aerobics, etc. but due to some injuries over the years, I have slowed down my activities and increased my intake of food. Thus gained more weight than my current clothes can hold.

My hardest temptation is around 8p, I want to eat something SWEET.

I’ve always regularly exercised, but my eating habits have meant yo-yo dieting. In my sophomore year of college, I gained fifty pounds–lost it my junior year and kept it off until I went to graduate school, where I gained that fifty back. Eighteen months ago, I had managed to lose about twenty of it, but was soon back to my old weight…and then some. Last February (my husband went to Korea), I joined the fitness program on base and had lost about ten pounds, but medication, self-pity, and over-eating put me at my heaviest so far. 183. I’m 5′5″–that’s embarrassing. And my husband and I want to get pregnant this year. Overweight and pregnant–gestational diabetes, bad labor, bad pregnancy. I have to do something NOW.

So, this year, I’m getting everything under control. More exercise, less consumption. More sleep, less television. Happier, healthier me in 2010 (I’ll be thirty). So far, I’ve done well–some days better than others, but I’m working on it. You’ll see me at the gym and in exercise classes, and I hope to see you too.

Come on people we can do this!!!!!