So, I’ve decided to follow the Sacred Heart Diet for a week.

It’s not really a legitimate diet at all, actually. It’s totally a fad diet. Just about every hospital anywhere in the world with the words sacred or heart in its name has disavowed this diet.

But I needed to get some discipline back and this seemed like it might help. If you wanna know more about my reasons, or the diet itself, check out my last post on Losing It at urbanmoms.ca.

So…all day yesterday I ate nothing but fruit. Except bananas. You’re not allowed bananas on your fruit day. So of course, I really, really wanted bananas! And all day today, I ate nothing but vegetables.

Today was haaaard.

Because you don’t get to have a nice big cobb salad with ham, boiled egg, cheese and creamy dressing. Noooo…just vegetables. Plain, unadorned vegetables. And your “treat” is a potato.

Interestingly, though, if you take my food intake today and measure it up by Weight Watchers standards, I didn’t do too badly. Read the rest of this entry »

And that’s why I started this blog.

You see, I’m not new to blogging. I’ve been doing it over here for nigh on a year and a half now, and I really, really love it. My first blog started as a weekly series of posts about weight loss for urbanmoms.ca, a totally rad online community for moms started by my amazing sister, Jen. I discovered, thanks to Losing It! and urbanmoms.ca, that I love, love, LOVE to write. And – believe it or not – some people actually like to read what I write, too! And that just makes me happy: silly happy.

So why, you’re wondering, should I start another blog? If the status quo is so hunky-dory, why go lookin’ for more? Greedy, am I?

Well, yes and no. I mean, there’s no denying it, more of a good thing should, in theory be better. So yeah…I love blogging, ergo I blog some more. Guilty as charged. But also, there’s the important fact that my blog over at urbanmoms.ca is sponsored. That means I get paid to write it (paid to write – paid to write??? Can you say dream come true?) but it also means I need to respect the fact that it is – in fact – a job, and not a soap box. I do get a remarkable amount of freedom over at Losing It, but it is supposed to be a blog about weight loss (although I often and frequently digress to other areas). And while weight loss has been (and still is) a very important part of my life, there’s a lot more in me that wants to get out in the form of words on a screen.

Oh yeah. And as an added bonus, I happen to be a ridiculously opinionated and political person, and now I’ll have a place to share those opinions with the world. Or at least that part of it that I haven’t already managed to offend.

So I hope that those of you who’ve enjoyed Losing It! will also enjoy my new adventure in blogging and – just possibly – that I’ll be able to share the weird little world that is me with a few more people too.

So, welcome. Come on in. This is Kat.