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Perhaps, all I needed was a little guidance.

I think I’m ready to give up the shakes and processed food.

After some thinking, researching, and reading, I think I can do the diet on my own.

I know, I know.  What about accountability,  and those education classes?

For me, there’s always Adam.

Looking through Eating Well magazine, and the Indian (South Asian), French, and Mediterranean cookbooks we have — there are plenty of meals in the two to three hundred calorie range — that use fresh ingredients, are high in fiber, and give you mouth-feel.  Plus, believe it or not, if I’m feeling lazy and in the mood for processed food, there’s always Lean Cuisine — which has a surprisingly large variety of meals 87 to HMRs 11.  Not to mention the variety when you include Amy’s and Whole Foods low calorie meals.  And there will be no high fructose corn syrup, no aspartame, and especially, no sucralose — three no-nos with me.

The exercise part, I was doing on my own — now it’s just a matter of taking on the food, and I’ll be good to go.  Plus all the money I save on shakes (two bucks a serving) — I can spend on cute workout gear.

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It has been said that men experience sympathy pains when their wives go through labor.  I think Adam is on a sympathy diet.

Since I’ve been on this diet, Adam has been suddenly cutting calories, and cutting down on those second servings.

For years, he has eaten huge portions of dinner and quite a few desserts — all the while saying he needed all that food because ‘I’m a man — men need more food.’

Now he’s manned himself up a few pounds — and as I’m slimming down, he’s slimming down too.  He’s been measuring his portions, skipping dessert, and exercising with me.  He figures if I’m watching what I eat, he should to.

The injustice?  Without trying — he will no doubt lose about ten pounds or so — while I struggle to lose two to four pounds a week.

But, of course, we’ll be both better off.

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