Apparently the menu changes too often to have a copy online, but from our experience last night, I can’t imagine that you’d be disappointed with anything they served.

I try and review my favorite crab cakes every year and so far, these crab cakes from Funky Lil Kitchen are definitely the best!

Check out the video of me and the crab on The Grub Hound.

For me, Weight Watchers is the way to go. It’s not so restrictive that I feel trapped. It’s flexible enough for my lifestyle and allows me to eat the foods that I love and still lose weight. It’s all about portion control.

I have to give Weight Watchers a big thumbs up!

If I were focused on living and eating a healthful diet, an occassional treat or indulgence would be ok. I would still be eating healthy and NOT dieting.

What do you think? Are you eating healthy or dieting?

Next week I should receive accolades for having lost 5 lbs - if I do lose at least .8 lbs. I believe that is doable, but I am going out to dinner tonight and I may be going to a birthday party on Sunday, so we’ll see how much I lose.

I stayed for the meeting again, last night. I sat alone, but that gave me the opportunity to play Spider Solitaire on my Blackberry. My addiction has now spread to my cell phone. Technology is great!

I was still able to listen to the speaker - which was the point for me joining. The topic last night was how to survive going out to eat. This includes estimating portion size, asking the waiter/waitress to have the food prepared for a special diet, and knowing which foods are under the “SetPoints” - meaning you don’t have to worry about portion control.

It was all good, but I didn’t win any games!

My mother, who lives with us, generally does our laundry (I know - how great is that!) brought the changes in the Tide measuring cap to my attention. She was very upset and felt like she was being taken advantage of by a corporate giant - Procter & Gamble. She’s been using the liquid detergent for years and became very accoustomed to the measuring cap on the top of every bottle. She doesn’t know when the change occurred, but she realized that the bottle had a new cap. The new cap was actually a different size than the old cap. Apparently the new cap is larger and the measuring lines are far below where they were in the old cap. Now, I don’t believe this is an accident at all, but a way to get the loyal consumers to unknowingly use more of the product.

My mother was furious when she figured this out! She also said the the measuring lines are so small and difficult to read. But she had been filling the cap up to the spot that she had done for years, not realizing that the size had changed and she was using more detergent with each load since the cap change.

I found another interesting post on Tide and their deceptive practices here - http://www.mouseprint.org/2010/02/01/tide-why-you-get-fewer-loads-than-promised/.

That’s my rant for the day!

The woman that lead the meeting was a little long-winded, but she was ok because she was funny - funny goes a long way with me. I stayed after the meeting, as instructed, because I was “new”. After sitting in the after meeting, I realized that I really wasn’t “new”. I’ve been doing the program online for at least a year and I’ve done weight watchers in the past many times. So, I politely excused myself and went home.

I’m not concerned about the meeting so much, it’s the accountablity that I’m looking for.

The meeting is in two hours. I’m also told that Thursday is the perfect day to attend weight watchers - far enough from the previous weekend to have the time to lose any weight that might have been gained over the weekend. We’ll see.

He has a naturally high metabolism and he’s definitely active - yard work, shoveling massive amounts of snow, bike riding, etc. His diet is about the same as mine - not necessarily watching what we’re eating like we should be, but he doesn’t gain weight. But, he has high cholesterol and this can be a serious health issue. In fact, I’m 20lbs overweight according to the charts for my age and height, but my cholesterol is fine.

We always seem to assume that heavy = unhealthy and I suppose, in general that can be true as we hear all the time the diseases and conditions that obesity play a huge roll in. But, we rarely think about those who appear to be “healthy” may actualy have as many health issues as those of us with weight to lose.

Thanks for listening.

It was in some ways similar to the Bill Murray movie ‘Lost in Translation’, but I thought that was a superior movie.

‘Up in the Air’ did have it’s good moments, but many of the events were predictable. There really wasn’t much of a plot, but I don’t think a plot is an absolute necessity in a movie. The sadness and lonliness of the main character were apparent. Ryan, the main character was the only character in the movie that was even close to being developed.

‘Up in the Air’ did make an impression on me, which is more than I can say for many of the unforgettable films I saw in 2009. And, George Clooney is never hard to look at.

I did have an epiphany in 2009 - I do not have the determination to complete ANYTHING that is not related to my business.  If I have a task that I am getting paid to do - I WILL get it done, but personal goal - forget about it. Now I believe this is a direct corellation to my inability to lose the weight I struggle to lose year after year.

2010 Goals -

• Continue blogging
• Start and stick with a new healthful eating plan - whether it’s weight watchers, Jenny Craig - whatever - JUST DO IT!
• Paint! - I had a goal last year to paint a painting-a-day for 365 days. I finished 13 paintings! See. I don’t finish anything that’s for me.
• Read the Bible from Genesis through Revelations (Adam is helping me with this one)

That’s it. I don’t want to overwhelm myself with too much to do that I don’t accomplish anything.

So, how am I going to do this? Well, I started blogging again - see, you’re reading my first post of 2010. Not much, but it’s a start. Next, I’m going to go to the Saturday weight watchers meeting at the Senior Center in one town over. Painting is probably the most difficult of the tasks, because it requires that I prepare a place in my house again where I can paint. I think my laziness has a huge impact on this (especially when I could be playing spider solitaire instead of painting). Last, and probably the easiest goal to acheive will be the Bible reading because, Adam is reading to me after we settle in to bed for the night.