Ok… I know I said that my diet started last week. And in some respects, I did start dieting. I started by throwing out all the crap food I had in my house. This wasn’t really that hard, because most of the junk I had was old and needed to be thrown out anyway.

I then went to the grocery store and got some fruits and “diet snacks” (low-cal yogurt, weight-control oatmeal, wheat bread, etc.) I also bought some lean red-meat and some other items that I could make reasonable dinners with. I tried to buy some items such as Progresso soup (which are low-cal, tasty and come in microwavable containers) that I could take to work and eat for lunch.

I started eating 6 times a day (or atleast trying to.) This concept makes a lot of sense to me. One of my problems is “over-eating”.. I will skip meals and then just gorge when I actually sit down to eat. If I can train myself to just eat small snacks throughout the day, perhaps I won’t get the urge to inhale huge meals at night. Here at work, I have a lot of people that are into healthy eating, so I get a good amount of motivation to “eat right.” Plus it is much cheaper to bring your lunch, instead of going out to eat all the time.

I’ve also been cutting out the sodas. Ok, this was an easy one. I never really drank that much soda anyway. I’ve been using those little Crystal Light single bottle mixes that you just dump into your water bottle, and shake. I love the lemonade version and its only 5 calories.

One of my biggest problem as I see it is that I like to snack when I get home. Maybe it relates to the whole, “eating out of boredom” thing I grew up with. But I just love to snack… so I really needed some low-cal items to snack on. I’ve been trying to snack on watermelon and pineapple chunks instead of chips and peanuts, but its just not the same. When I get a “salt” craving, I eat a pickle instead.

I seriously need to incorporate more exercise into my life… I tend to walk more than the average American (but then, most American’s only walk from their car to their door)… but I need to start some weight-training, or take my bike out more… I really have no excuses.

So far, I’ve lost a couple of pounds, but I tend to fluctuate a few pounds here and there throughout the week, so I can’t really say if my diet has done anything for me.