Saturday, January 8, 2011

This diet thing is not going so well....

So in an effort to fit into my bathing suit in time for my Mexico vacation next month, I have decided to do the diet and exercise thing.  I'm really terrible at dieting though as I love food too much and I love food that's really bad for me!  I am doing ok at the exercise thing but really really terrible at the dieting.

One of my first decisions was to give up my wine....this is not easy for me as I LOVE my wine!  No specific kind of wine, just wine in general. I have only been wine free now for 8 days and it has been killing me.  Ok so it's not really killing me but it's hard.  It's especially hard when I'm trying to get out and meet new potential dates and the first idea for a meeting spot is going to be going for drinks.  The second option is going for coffee and I HATE coffee so....do I go for "drinks" and have water?  Seems sort of inappropriate.

So at home in an effort to not have to put away my wine glasses and the experience of sipping on wine I have started drinking my diet ginger ale out of  a wine glass.  It's not bad :)  My friend Jason had an interesting comment to this:


 The nicorette for wine.  Figured out that part.  Now what else can there be with the diet fix?  Last night I was on my way home from the gym and I was starving from not eating anything since 11 am and it was 7:00 p.m. and there is a Papa John's pizza next door so of course I ordered:


 mmmmmm  cheesesticks!!  Or garlic fingers as they call them on the east coast.  Yum.  I ordered a small but it is still about 8-10" and of course I sat down and ate it all!!!  But at least when Nicole called to ask if I wanted McDonalds a few hours later I was too stuffed to ask for anything.

Today a new craving..... CRAVE Cupcakes.  My friend Keith turned me on to Crave cupcakes last year when he brought me 6 and I have stayed away from them except for one day when they had them at the office (but that was for charity so totally allowed right?) but I have been really NEEDING one.  Actually a specific one:
YUM!!!!  It's fantastic and I love it!  Is there a nicorette for cupcakes?