Back from the ashes

“I won’t compare myself to the phoenix. That is preposterous”. Quoting myself, right now.

And here I am. Back on a diet. I can’t believe that practically a whole year went by from my last post. But it has. And my quest has been restarted.

To re-state my purpose, I am getting back on a diet. I love to eat, to think about food, culture, gastronomy, trends, etc., but being overweight is annoying. Going on a diet while you are “me” is hard, but it is not impossible.

On my absent year (2014), I have been able to maintain my weight under control. Well, not really. At the end of the year, after the many parties, get togethers, dinners, and celebratory drinking, I did put on some pounds. I went from my 213 lbs. to about 223 lbs., so about 10 lbs. increase. Considering that I am still bloated from all the beer drinking, late snacks, cocktails and plain garbage that I chowed down, I don’t feel that is accurate, or too bad. I may drop about 5 lbs. after I detox. Seriously.

I must say that I enjoyed being off the diet. I was able to eat whatever I wanted. I never really over ate, but I ate all the nasty stuff you could think of. Dieting in 2013 really made a bit of a responsible eater, to myself and my body, at least.

Anyway, so here I go again… on a diet.

Wow! 28 days out of the loop

I knew that I had stopped writing, but I didn’t think that I had stopped writing for so long. At most I thought that I was out for 3 week, but 4 weeks? Ding dong. Hello?

What can I say? After my last post when I shared the fact that I had hit a bump, all I can say is that it’s been a bumpy ride. I am one day away from my next weigh-in, and I think I have only loss 4lb in a month. My expected, and hoped for number, is 8lb per month, although I wouldn’t mind losing 10lbs. So the past 28 days have been rough on me.

But there isn’t really much I can do about it. Time is gone and the 4lbs remained attached to me. And I am not cutting my hand or another part of my body (I know what you’re thinking) to alleviate the extra weight. So, I just have to crank it up.

By the way, Miami Spice Restaurant month is in full swing still. I did visit a couple of the coolest spots, although I won’t say that I was derailed by such. I’ve just gone through, how can I say this, foodie nostalgia. Yes, two months without getting a healthy dose of beer, chicken wings, pizza, pasta, cake, fried stuff, it is not easy to be a glutton who specifically likes to eat fatty and starchy stuff.

Needless to say, I get the last laugh, because I am still dedicated to losing the weight, because I am still losing weight (at snail pace, to my standard), because I see myself in the mirror and I want to see that guy who used to weigh less than 200lbs, because I feel really good, because I haven’t given up delicious food (even though I have to eat it in moderation), and because people give me those compliments that we, human beings, so much desperately need.