Some Updates

Tonight is the first weigh in. For those of you who care I'll post the results tomorrow. Well, I'll post my results. Lori will shove the scale somewhere on me making it very difficult to sit if I post her results. It should go well for me. The weigh in, not the scale shoving. I came in under points every day last week except Saturday. That's because I started the day off by stopping at Taco Bell for 3 soft tacos on the way home from work Friday night. Three soft tacos = twelve points. Oops. Then to cap it all off we went to Buca di Beppo for dinner. Lori's staff Christmas party a few weeks late. Even though I didn't bother to count my points Saturday night I feel I still did okay because I didn't leave hungry, but I wasn't so full I couldn't move either. I guess that's something. Claire is sitting in her Bumbo on the floor behind me doing excersizes or something. And she's squeeling alot. Hope that's a good thing. While we were at Buca the other night one of the other teachers had the father of a student buy her a bottle of wine. Not a drink or a glass. But a whole bottle. A $47 bottle. He joked that he wanted his kid to get a good grade but seriously...$47? I tried explaining to this teacher the proper etiquette of when a man buys a woman a drink. 1 drink means she has to have a conversation with the guy. 2 drinks means she has to give a phone number. It doesn't have to be hers, but a phone number still. A $47 bottle of wine...well...lets just say that the evening is supposed to end with breakfast. That's all I'm saying. And finally, I loaded the video of the McZena New Year's Bash. Notice I said video. For whatever reason my POS computer will not load the audio. But I did capture the video, and sent it to the fine folks at youtube. I must say that this is one of those times that video fails to capture the true magic of the moment. By the way, in case your wondering what your looking at, it is a 6 foot inflatable pirate with 300 white lights wrapped on him and he is sliding down a home made zip line. When the lights come on at the bottom...thats the start of the New Year. Enjoy. Oh, by the way....Week 1 weight loss is 4lbs. Go me.

The New Coffee Diet

I know that folks are waiting for the holiday pictures of Claire. They're coming, stay patient. I'm also trying to add the video of the big New Year's celebration but its kind of slow going.

Anyway, I did something dumb yesterday. I signed up for Weight Watchers. I'm more doing it as a moral boost but I suppose I can make it work. I'll go ahead and put it out here. I'm at 178 lbs. right now. I don't really have a target, just less than where I'm at now. The plan says I can have 29 points. It seemed like a lot until I entered in the chicken wings I had for dinner last night and discovered that I chalked up 22.5 points right there. Thank God I know because I damn near enjoyed those things. I was relieved to learn that black coffee is 0 points. However, adding sweetener and creamer takes it up to 3. So the way I see it, I can still have 9 cups of coffee a day and still have room for an orange or grapefruit for dinner. I can be pioneer in the weight loss realm. A legend like the Subway guy. I'll have my own commercial for Maxwell House..."Hi. I'm Jef. I lost 15 pounds by only drinking Maxwell House coffee. My pee smells bad, but I lost the weight and so can you."

Just a thought. Or wind up looking like this guy.