Never Diet Again - Not This Year 2013

I should really listen to what Angela is saying here. I'll be 60 in a few months and have been on the diet merry-go-round since the day I was born. Even now, while following one of the healthiest food plans on the planet, I'm not losing weight and won't unless I let my calories drop to below 1000/day, something I'm not willing to do, especially since it would put a strain on my already compromised (from decades of dieting and diet pills) heart. 



What can I do, besides point readers to this blog to the official Not This Year web site? Well, it's only the fourth day of the year and already I took a diet book out of my Amazon shopping cart and vowed to not buy ANY food related books this year except for any upcoming cookbooks by Isa Chandra Moskowitz.  No diet books, no other cookbooks, no diet-related videos (I took one of them out of the shopping cart, too). I vow to finally read the MANY fat-accepting books I already own but put aside in favor of diet books I already owned to reread.

And I vow to eat more cookies and other baked goods that taste good, not only are good for me. In fact, as I type I have a batch of raisin-chocolate chip banana bran muffins in the oven, made from this recipe. They're very filling and delicious as well as healthier than bakery made muffins, made with all kinds of artificial ingredients. One of these babies for breakfast and I'm good for hours before even looking for lunch!

BSG Adama Song

I'm making my way through the DVD series right now, and saw a number of people on the PPK forums are, too. Here's a video someone recently suggested that gives a very fast explanation of the series to newcomers: