Have another

Change of plans. I am drinking in Vegas! I will be pill-less, but damn it, I can drink. Keep the vodka-pineapples coming casino cocktail waitress!

No baby-making this month. We can always use the excuse that I need to regulate my cycle after going off the pill. Regulators ... mount up.

But this does not help me in the acceptance of The Big Fat Tummy. This is what I call my gut, affectionately. From the angle that I see it, The Big Fat Tummy looks like I may already BE three months pregnant. Not a good look. But of course that's my hunched over looking down view.

Looking in the mirror, with my Pilates posture and minimal sucking in of The Big Fat Tummy, I look fine. I have, however, gained three pounds in the last two weeks. Why, you may ask? Well I have given up fast food and diet soda and started drinking 64 ounces of water and eating at least 25 grams of fiber per day. One might think one would LOSE weight doing that. Au contraire. Not when you add a bowl of Kashi GoLean cereal to your everyday eating, in addition to starting to eat breakfast.

Before, I would eat lunch and dinner and sometimes a dessert. I ate like crap, drank three Diet Cokes a day and pretty much maintained a steady weight since after the honeymoon.

But now, I eat. A lot. In the quest for trying to get in enough fiber, I ate the following every day last week: Oatmeal, fruit smoothie, green tea, an orange, a large salad, leftover pizza, a bowl of GoLean with skim milk, dinner of fish and another salad, ice cream (not every night, but twice). I estimate I was taking in 500 calories at breakfast alone. Not good times.

So now I sit with The Big Fat Tummy. Lamenting it's existence. Wishing we might have considered getting pregnant just so I would have an excuse to have The Big Fat Tummy.

So we had pizza for dinner.