I Yam What I Yam

First I would like to point out that I never! make New Year's resolutions... ever.
I had learned that not only do you have to face a long haul through the winter to spring, but you have to face it as the world's biggest loser cause of course; you FAIL. New Year's day 2009 however I decided to suck it up and go for it to approach weight loss as a team member with my daughter. "All we need to do is eat properly and exercise" she said.
Well this sounded like a reasonable effort to make so I agreed. I have a history of being not only leading a fairly sedentary lifestyle but also being completely averse to the tedium of exercise. Putting on a big enthusiastic smile I duly signed up for the gym at work (only $65 for the year, easy, convenient) and pirated a Weight Watchers points list.
I am not only lazy, I am cheap too!
Using the list at first to figure out what I was actually eating, then slowly eliminated the really damaging things seemed a logical course of action. I started packing a lunch daily with a defined amounts of points, of some of the things that ended up being staples.
Two things emerged from this practice..
1) I am a huge! fan of that 15 calories per tbsp. Italian dressing.
2) I cook weird shit for myself.
For example, yam soup: one yam, baked to mush, 1 liter no-name chicken broth and about 2 tbsp of dill. This makes 3 portions. Yeah it looks and tastes like baby food, but it fits the bill. How many calories? Nooo idea. I never bothered to figure it out.
Anyway; fast forward. The gym? Nope, that never did work. I actually did end up getting to a slow lope on the treadmill without falling off but in the end the tedium did me in. The eating properly is working, albeit slowly but it is a lifestyle change, not a diet and it is working for me so far.
I do miss fries and gravy...sigh.