My diet

I am on a diet. Again.

I have a lot of weight to lose. Maybe 30 pounds. I have a personal trainer with whom I spend two (expensive) hours each week. I generally eat well - heathful, smartly, etc. I keep a food and activity diary. I work out a lot. I am healthy, but I am fatter than I would like. When I was 30, I weighed between 113-118. I wore a 2-4. Now, not so much.

I have tried doing the Perricone diet straight, but it was costing me about $200/week from Whole Foods. And that's just my food, without any purchases for the Mr. Sure, I could have purchased food from the supermarket, or I could have purchased less expensive, more hormone and antibiotically filled turkey, etc.

I have done straight calorie counting. I have done the Zone.

After spending Thanksgiving with my extremely skinny mother, and seeing pictures of myself from 5 years ago, when I was skinnier than she is, I have rededicated myself. Again.

I used to aim for 1400 calories/day, but I have actually gained weight eating that amount of calories and working out. I weigh everything and use myfooddiary.com for calculations, so I know I am not making estimate errors. Plus, I work out with a hrm.

I will not be following my mother in her diet of light yogurt and dry cereal, but I need to do something.