Getting started

Dec. 31, 2010

All I really wanted was a simple way to create a food journal. But after looking futilely at notebooks, blank books, expensive journals, Weight Watchers journals, online food diaries, and who knows what else, I find myself here. Online. Writing a blog, which isn't a blog. I just need a place to record what I eat and how much fat it contains.

I miss the printed food journals I once bought from Weight Watchers. They were the right size to fit in my purse, were set up sensibly to record what matters, and had enough room to write down what I ate in sufficient detail to make me happy. Of course, they don't print them like that any more.

And any way, I don't want to have to carry something around with me. I lose things. And I hate being weighed down.

Most days I am near enough a computer that I am hoping I can just log on and write down what I ate. Hopefully no one will ever stumble on this blog by mistake. If anyone does, I apologize in advance. All you're likely to see is a boring list of food and fat grams. Oh, and maybe an exercise list of some sort.

So it's New Year's Eve (actually the afternoon of New Year's Eve), and I am forcing myself to adopt some better habits -- one's I used to have -- in hopes of reclaiming how I live and how I feel.

Here's looking at you, kid!