Day 16

I am feeling pretty darn psyched about The Plan, especially since the 1.8 pound loss yesterday. I feel as if, I am finally on track, heading in the right direction. I don't know how you are feeling about the 90 day endeavor, but so far it has been effortless. I count. I exercise. I step on the scale. I lose weight. Can't get much easier than that. Not only am I eating the foods I like, but I haven't spent one plug nickel (excluding the scale) on my effort to lose weight. No registration fees, gym fees, no money for a weeks worth of meals, no pills.
As I sit here, after hustling my butt up and over the roller coaster hills of my neighborhood (for 49 minutes), I wonder why the heck we make it so hard. Maybe we think it can't possibly be this simple. There has to be more to it. There's not.
There's got to be a catch. There isn't.
I equate losing weight with reading the Bible. As a Catholic grade school-er, I was never encouraged to read that mysterious tome. Only priests, with their supreme spiritual state of everlasting communion with God, could unlock and translate the wisdom to us earthlings. I believed I couldn't possibly understand it on my own. It had to be far too complicated for my mere mortal mind. That is, until I started thumbing through it, reading a couple paragraphs here and there and realized, this stuff is pretty straightforward. I didn't really need the middle man.
So is losing butter. Pretty straightforward. Diets, diet aids, diet supplements, diet books, diet dinners, and diet workshops are the middle men. That billion dollar industry, dieting, is fueled by the necessity of keeping the Bible out of your hands. When all Over Weighters suddenly realize how simple it is to shed pounds (and actually do it), we've just taken the greenbacks out of their silk lined pockets and put them back into ours, where they belong. Does the weight loss industry really think we can't count?
Day 16 Calorie Count: 1470.