And Yet Another Diet Trick

There is a reason so many people write baking blogs and I found out yesterday when I posted the obscenely bad for you Halloween candy peanut butter pie recipe; people love sweets.   I got so many messages about that pie.  When I was out walking today I ran into my friend Cliff who has lost a boat-load of weight in the last two years and he said that he was so tempted by my recipe that he actually contemplated buying four bags of Kit Kats at the grocery today so he could make that pie and put it in the freezer.

Now the point of that recipe was to repurpose Halloween candy so that it was not just hanging around to get nibbled on here and there.  Thankfully Cliff did not fall prey to the Kit Kats.  I promise not to post something like that again, even if it does get me tons of readers.  It goes against the point of this blog as a diet comedy.

Halloween is the beginning of the eating season.  Not that there is ever a non-eating season for me.  I spent last weekend eating what I wanted at Jon and Alli’s wedding and that is not something that worked out for me.

Knowing that this is the dangerous time of year and that I have been less than vigilant in the last month I was searching for what my next “Trick” for dieting was going to be.  It was exactly one year ago on November first that my weight-loss challenge for the Food Bank ended.  Yes I did raise $53,000 and loose 53 pounds, which worked great for the Food Bank, and me but I can’t keep asking people to pay me to lose weight and I would like to go on and lose the last of it.

I know in my heart and my brain what all the basics are to losing weight.  They don’t change and I have memorized them all.  I also know there are no magic pills so I never bother to listen to those infomercials on the latest herb or extract guaranteed to help you drop those unwanted pounds.  But I still like a gadget or two that will keep me focused on the fundamentals.

My friend Jan is an early adaptor and likes to try out the new and shinny so I was ripe to listen to her talk about her Fit Bit this week.  Fit Bit is a tiny device you wear to track steps and activity.  It is one of many of these devices to help us sedentary yet completive types get up and move around more. This was the “Trick” I treated myself to post Halloween.  So now I have a bracelet on tracking my every move.

Moving more and tracking it is good, but logging every bite of food I eat is better.  As wonderful as exercise is, eating right is the only way I really can lose weight.  To my luck Fit Bit can be tied into the Losing It App I already have on my phone, but have not used in a while as my logging system for everything I put in my mouth.  I don’t bite it until I write it.

I will keep you posted as to the progress of these back to basics tricks I am trying.  If you are also a Fit Bit user friend me or invite me or whatever it is called so we can track each other.  I am always better if I have people keeping an eye on me and a little competition never hurts.