That's what my dream book would be titled - if I ever wrote it. So what's the deal with Tortilla Soup?
My girlfriends and I have been on a two-year tour of all eateries in Houston sampling Tortilla soups and queso - my two favorite things to ingest in the whole wide world. So much so that I joked I would write a knock-off of the "Chicken Soup" series, but title it "Tortilla Soup for the Single Girl's Soul." I'd give practical" being a single twenty-something" advice and restaurant review vignettes ALL at the same time :) I'm sure I'd be slapped with a lawsuit, maybe even two.
My girlfriend Ann said "Girl, you live Tortilla soup." That comment led to the renaming of my life "Tortilla soup" and each priority or anything at all that I deem important is an "ingredient." I've had some bad Tortilla soup in my life, and I've ordered bad Tortilla soup!
I decided to make some resolutions this new year:
1. Use reverse psychology on myself.
2. Gain 20 lbs.
3. Do that by joining Weight Watcher's :)
1/4/05, 11:40pm
Seriously, I've just signed up to do Weight Watcher's and decided what better way to chronicle it than by blog.
I am a 26 year-old semi-single Baptist girl living in the big city of Houston, Texas. Did you hear - we were ranked the US's fattest city for 2-3 years in a row. God bless you, Detroit for taking away that dubious honor. Two things about Houston - the humidity is killer, and you can probably find more than 25 restaurants within a 2-city block radius - half of those being Tex-Mex, my achilles heel.
My wonderful circle of friends eats out 5 times a week. And that's not counting lunch! My fabulous boyfriend of 7 months loves to have pizza or Chinese delivered while playing Halo 2 on Xbox. (I'm a MEAN Halo 2 player - you'll know who it is if you ever get sniped by "Texans Girl".) Then, there are of course those weekends when he has both delivered. Pair all that along with me - your Food Network-watching, amateur chef, Martha Stewart wannabe... So, as you can imagine, it's "Houston, we have a BIG problem" :)
I like my Sundays during September-February very consistent: couch (Reliant Stadium if the Texans are in town), football, dark beer, and chips & queso. So I managed to hit Troy Aikman's playing weight in 2001 - 220 lbs. On a 5'4 frame, dass no good! I managed to shake off 50 lbs and keep it off until the beginning of this year. I then slimmed down to 159 - the lowest weight in my adult life. I hate to brag, but I looked cute :) Enter boyfriend with bad eating habits and no workout schedule. Enter 30 lbs. Eeeek.
Now to another item. Watched the Orange Bowl tonight. You know how that weird feeling in the pit of your stomach creeps up when you see someone humiliating themselves - that one that makes you want to turn the channel or just walk over and bop that person on top of the head? Unfortunately, I did't have anything that would reach the back of Ashlee Simpson's head. Putting the weird gyrations and the unbelievably horrific "I'm not Jessica, darn it!" outfit aside - that was single-handedly the WORST live performance done by anyone, anything, anytime, anywhere. And you know it was live because no studio producer with half a brain would have let that train wreck meets cat-in-heat leave the studio. I'll stop.
1/5/05, 1:45pm
Enter Weight Watcher's. Here at HP-Houston we're doing Weight Watcher's starting January 20th. I'm way geeked about it, so much so that I'm unofficially starting early :) My boyfriend won't join because he's not sure "all the counting" is worth it. He wants to see how I do for two months. He doesn't know about this blog :) Lord, help me if he ever finds it!
I plan on doing the same thing I did a few years ago and setup my Decade Rewards program again. Each time I broke into a new decade (150-159 lbs, for example), I'd buy myself a little something as incentives. Then there's the Big Goal Reward. I'm buying myself an iPod at 50 lbs. |
