hi its me thea!

happy new year zero!

jaMuary 4, new year 0.

i love a new year zero. seems good. seems new. seems like next dec. 31st i'll be reflecting on another crappola year. c'est la vie.

i am starting a new diet.. been on it since prior to xmas eve. (of course i ate "normally" on xmas eve and xmas but not any more). i went back in my blog history when trying to formulate the new diet /punishment program and i realized i love a routine. it does make me happy... the control of knowing exactly what you will have for dinner EVERY DAY... knowing that you will only eat said dinner out of "the little bowl"... heaven. i'm not solid on a program thus far but heres what we got:

breakfast - coffee , scrambled egg white.

lunch- unsure on this one i usually bring a cottage cheese double thingie to work, easy portable..eh we'll see if we can pare it down.

snacks at various times but not too often- apple, banana, pear,

dinner- (this is the biggie) first you make up a bunch of brown rice, cook it with spinach, mushrooms maybe a little onion, black beans or chicpeas. then cook up a bag of the birdseye steam fresh vegetables (my favorite would have to be the broccoli/cauliflower mix but any other fresh, frozen or canned veggies will do-then dump all of that stuff into a large tupperware bowl. separately bake up a pack of chicken breasts, or some low fat turkey burgers.

then come dinner time you get out "the little bowl" put in some of the rice/vegetable mix and cut up a little chicken or turkey- microwave for a minute or 2 add hot sauce and blammo - dinner!!! thus far it kicks ass. plus you can make it in quantities such that dinner is taken care of for a week. yessssssssssssssss!

snack before bed if necessary - yogurt or get out "the little bowl" and have some shredded wheat/bran with low fat vanilla soy milk. yummy.

so there you go it is a work in progress i intend to enjoy to the fullest.... but not my fullest!

so that is that.

my new years eve/day was fairly uneventful. but thats the way i like it.

xmas with the family was not as bad at i had planned but my family was on better behavior because my bro's girlfriend came as a special celebrity guest.

best gift came via: carolyn as suggested by una..who remembered that i said i wanted footie pajamas like she had. so whilst mine are not ariel or cinderella they are a giant pair of bright pink adult footie pajamas they are not i repeat not sexy at all but damn if they aren't warm as hell. considering i try to keep my heat at 58 degrees i need it.

how about you all? how'd it go? and welcome to the new year zero.

while i want you all to eat cake - i will not.

i remain

thea