• Succulent lemon bars, lightly powdered with confectioner’s sugar
• Rich Magic Cookie Bars, a mixture of that delicious trio of butter, sugar, and egg combined with chocolate chunks and other goodies.
• Bronze-colored Donut holes, rolled in granulated sugar
• Pert little brownie bits, a rich dark brown chocolate fudge color
• Strawberries (only because they were on the same dessert tray as the rest of the things above, and I thought that if I reached for a Strawberry I’d accidentally grab a Lemon Bar)

Day 2 of the diet. I registered for my classes today, including a Weight Training and Conditioning course in the spring time. I was up late studying last night so I didn’t wake up early enough to take Bowie for a jog. My diet has been a lot more balanced. I eat just enough food that I’m not hungry until the next time I eat food. If I get some  hunger pangs in the meantime, I just drink water, and that seems to help.

I DID eat today:

Breakfast: 2 egg-whites fried in 1oz of Olive oil, 1-1/2 cups Kashi cereal with 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 cup cranberry juice.

Mid-morning snack: A large orange and some celery with natural peanut butter.

Lunch: Left over Tofu / vegetable stirfry and couscous.

Dinner: 5 Turkey meatballs in tomato sauce, a baked potato with cheddar cheese, and some romaine  lettuce with a glass of water.

In retrospect, I realized that the tomato sauce were enough starchy carbs that I didn’t need the baked potato. I should have just made it sans-potato. Maybe added some more romaine lettuce or something, for extra fiber.

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1. Delicious, moist, leftover Anniversary cake*
2. Some deliciously round and powdery donut holes in the break room
3. Hot, rich, Pizza or Garlicky Seasoned Breadsticks
4. Decadent and chewy looking Chocolate Chip Cookies during a meeting with the Library administrators
5. Delicious, moist, leftover Anniversary cake*
6. Cookies, candy, or ice cream while food shopping for healthier food

Yes, I am indeed determined to be healthier. There seems to be constant temptation to eat shitty foods, and I notice it all the more now that I am abstaining from such yummeries. I literally deliberated for 10 minutes this afternoon about eating ONE of those cookies, but ultimately decided it wasn’t worth it.

I’ve been taking Bowie for a walk / jog almost every morning. Last week was kind of an exception because I was sick (and then Melissa/Sullivan were sick and I was on vacation) but the past two mornings I’ve done it. Up at 7′ish a.m., find clothes, put shoes on, grab leash, and go. It’s about a mile around our usual route; Up the hill, around the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Back down past the high-school-formerly-known-as-Hibberd. It’s getting a little easier. I just started with situps / pushups last night too.

Once I get going with this and get to the point where I can jog at least halfway through my route, I’m going to start doing weight training again. I’m determined to get back in shape and return the spare tire to the trunk of my VW.

* “Anniversary cake” is actually the topper from our Wedding cake a year ago. It’s been in the Freezer for a full year. Believe it or not, it was still totally moist and delicious, in spite of its age. Just like me!

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Lately, Sullivan has been a little more difficult when it comes time to go to bed. When he was first born, all it took was a boob and a pacifier. At a couple months, he rejected the pacifier and just wanted a boob. A couple months after that he needed to be rocked to sleep. Last night, and the night before, rocking wasn’t working, and Melissa and I both realized we needed to change strategies.

We decided that it was time for us to start making the rules. The crib is sidecar’d to the bed, since we’re doing the Dr. Sears Attachment Parenting co-sleeping bit, but up to this point, the crib has been empty pretty much every night, with Sullivan sleeping in between us. The routine thus far has been that when he wakes up, Melissa tries putting him to sleep with her womanly ways, and if that doesn’t work or she’s sore, then I’ll stand up and try to rock him to sleep. Lately though, he just wants to be awake and crawl all over us at 11pm.

Last night, after trying the usual thing unsuccessfully, I laid him in his crib on his stomach (he sleeps better that way) and covered him with a blanket. He was bawling pretty loudly. I sat next to him and rubbed his back with an open palm. When he would try to rear up on all fours, I gently straightened his legs back out so he was laying down again. When he kicked off the blanket, I’d put it back on him. Eventually, after about 15 or 20 minutes of this, he fell asleep. What was even more remarkable is that when he woke up in the middle of the night to eat, we laid him back down in the crib and he stayed asleep! (That’s not typical from our previous methods)

I think the motivation for this came from Eric Cartman. If you’ve ever watched South Park, especially recently, you know about how Cartman manipulates his Mom to do what he wants. Not that I think Sullivan is an evil little shit or anything (he’s just an excited little boy), but I think that up until now we haven’t really shown him any boundaries. That seems like a recipe for a spoiled kid, and I figured it would be easier to start establishing boundaries now while he’s still an infant rather than when he’s a teenager and hoothollerin’ and lollygagging around.

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