OK, I guess I REAL diet is in order

So here I am. ballooned up to 286 (as of this morning). Last week I ordered a month's supply of the Nutrisystem program. Yesterday I checked UPS online and tracked the package and found it would be coming later in the day.

So I ate. Haha. I started off at 282 yesterday morning, so I had to eat A LOT to get to 286 this morning. Let's see, I visited my fave Italian restaurant last night with one of the kidlets. We started with warm Italian bread dipped in extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar, proceeded to thick garlicky bruschetta, continued to mozzarella sticks with marinara, and then segued into a spring garden mix salad with balsamic dressing. Then we waited a few minutes until our dinner arrived. I ordered up the Chicken Piccatta with rice and zucchini pilaf. OMG it was sooooo good. The lemon sauce was divine, so rich and tasty. The chicken breasts were pounded to an inch of their lives and tender and juicy.

We finished with a huge hunk of chocolate mousse cake, which we took home because I was jammed between the chair and the table by that time.

This morning I awoke with a clean slate and a 47 pound box of Nutrisystem! Yep, 47 pounds of food that has to be eaten in ONE MONTH! It's kind of a scary thought that I have to eat 47 pounds of food this month and STILL expect to LOSE weight. Oh, I forgot to mention, last night I decided to taste test one of the foods in my Nutrisystem box, of course, it was the Chocolate Brownies, which was a very generous hunk of brownie and very very rich and chocolatey. Very good but, like I said, also very rich. It's the kind of thing where you wonder how you're going to resist eating all 28-day's worth of food in one night! I wonder how many calls Nutrisystem gets each day that begin like this--"Hi, this is Mary Jo Fatly...ummm...yeah...so yesterday I was supposed to have got my Nutrisystem food box for the month...and ummm...well it never arrived...yeah, it never arrived".

A quick look through the box showed that several of my preferred food items were not included and substitutes were sent instead. Why they substituted Split Pea Soup (double yuck) for Spaghetti and Meatballs, I don't know. The least they could have done was subsitute another of those Chocoate Brownie deals when they run out of something. Believe me, if left to my own devices, I would have ordered all desserts for the month. Unfortunately, Nutrisystem has put a lock on the 28-desserts per month online button. Let's be honest, with 28 desserts sitting in a box in my kitchen and the necessity to eat a total of 4 meals everyday, you just know the first week is going to subsist of 4 desserts per day.

More post will follow telling what I ate and when.