Day One

Today the countdown started! I have 62 days to loose 44 lbs. Not an easy task when you take into consideration the fact that I live in Spain.

Spain, famous for its Flamenco dance, bullfights, its art, architecture, and festivals of all sorts, but specially... for its food!

I live in a little coastal town along the Costa Brava where seafood is made available freshly every day. But that's not all! You also have available the extremely tasty sausages with a thousand different names and flavors. The cheeses! OMG! The cheeses! The fruits of the season, not so much of a problem, though. But then you also have "tapas". those little flavorful morsels of heaven! And what about the wines! The list is preposterous! Too many to taste in a lifetime, and never repeat the same. Much as the restaurants in NYC! You could live there (I did) and go to a different restaurant every day for a year, and never repeat the same, not even once!

Well, here it is the same with food.

I moved to Spain two years to the date, and gained 44 lbs. since! Now, and for something more than just aesthetics, I have to shred those 44 lbs. and not even that... I have to do it in 62 days!

Today is day zero for me. I know that I have to remain focus and on track, or I could easily loose my north. I just have to go through a bunch of food shops on my way to... Everywhere! And it is not easy to look the other way when I hear baked, fried, or cooked goods calling my name!

Food is my road to perdition! And if that is true... Spain is Hell!

Although, so far so good! But what the fuck! I've just started. Now it is gonna get interesting... saying no to food when I am invited to dinner parties, or when I have guests at home... That it is gonna be really, really interesting. And what about booze? Well, I haven't got there yet! I wont get there until July 11, when one of my best friends comes into town to go party... Will I be able to say no to that? Knowing, as I know, how much I like to drink and party????

Breakfast went well though. Just some tea, with a touch of soy milk, and sweetener. Lunch was a little more difficult. You see, I am really not into cooking. My idea of a meal alone, consist more on something ready to go, or something I can just nuke in the microwave! That means I have to cook my own meals if I wanna reach my goal. So, today it was tuna salad for lunch! I even hate to prepare a salad. I enjoy them, yes! But having to cut every single ingredient in little pieces, and one by one... it really gets to my nerves! On top of that I can't use any salt, nor olive oil to give it a zest. I have to constrict myself to vinegar and maybe, a dash of herbs!

So, my salad was simple: lettuce, half a tomato, a can of tuna in water, 4 olives, 4 cornichons, and onion. Thank heaven I don't have anyone to kiss! lol But cutting all these in little pieces... OMG! And to think I still have to do it for another 62 days! Murder!!!! I am somewhat of a vegetarian, my main source of protein comes from the sea, but since my cholesterol jumpstarted when I gained so much weight, it is now, totally out of the question!

In the mid-afternoon I had another cup of tea, the same as this morning, but with one diet cookie! And dinner it's been skipped altogether!

As I am writing this, I am already getting hungry! But I am trying to concentrate on the results... which I don't know when are gonna start to show!

I also embarked myself into an intensive exercise program. Started in the gym this morning, just after my cup of tea. Did one hour of cardio, 45 minutes on the aqua gym class, and 10 laps on the swimming pool. A banana afterwards, to recover the potasium left in the towel! Gosh, it has only been one day, and I am already feeling the pressure! My stomach is crawling like a moribund insect, and I think I will need all the advise and support I can get to see it through!

So, if there is anyone outhere with some diet, loosing weight wisdom... please! Feel free to send me your recommendations. Heavens know I need them!