Lame, I know, but I am "starting my diet tomorrow." (Flo came, couldn't find my weights, it was a holiday weekend, etc etc etc)

No really, I am starting the journal and the 8-minute moves tomorrow. Basically I'm combining the 8-minutes activity thing -- truly, 8 minutes in the morning focused on building muscle, since the more muscle you have the more calories you burn just sitting on your muscle-y a**! -- with the guys newer 3-Hour Diet, which means you eat every 3 hours. 3 squares, 2 snacks, and a little treat.

The 3 squares are all about portion control: take a 9" dinner plate and divide it in half. Fill half with fruit or veggies (imagine 3 DVD cases). Divide the other half in half again: one half gets a deck-of-cards worth of protein, the other gets a Rubik's cube worth of carb. And some fat -- forget how much but you gotta have it to feel satiated. Of course if you're me and you make meals where your macronutrients all mingle together in a single dish it gets trickier to figure, but I suppose it's the honest effort that counts.

So it's very sensible, moderate, etc. The main thing is that you eat regularly to keep your metabolism going and that you eat tons of vegetables.

My girlfriend is doing great -- she says the exercise and regular eating are giving her lots of extra energy during the afternoon slump, and she's lost 4 lbs. in 2 weeks. Not miraculous, but good. I don't trust miraculous.

So before bed I am going to sketch out my eating plan ( I like this because it is visual rather than counting points, though I think WW is excellent). Tomorrow is some upper body work. (You are supposed to use a weight where you are fatigued by 12 reps so that your 8 minutes really count for something. I think you do 2 or 3 sets of 12 reps, 2 exercises each day. Plus a quick minute of running in place to warm up and a few stretches to cool down.)

Weigh in for Week One is Sunday -- I'm nervous already!

Special hello to poor Honey! Hang in there!

Shaun
"Home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks."
   -- G. K. Chesterton