F is for Frieday Chinese Food

Don't you just love January?  It's cold and windy and miserable.  Then you add the onslaught of dieting and fitness commercials and it's basically a pipe bomb of self-destruction.  Oh wait...is that just me?

Someone somewhere said diets don't work.  I've proven that to be true.  So what's a girl to do? My goal (because New Year's Resolutions are so last year) is to be a little less fat and of course that feels pretty much impossible right now.  It's like 45 below zero  and I have a baby surgically attached to my hip.  (It might actually be easier if she was because then I'd have my hands free.)

I want to set some (insert air quotes) goals  but I'm pretty terrible at the kinds that involve food.  The minute I decide what I won't eat my mind lasers in on that food. Then like a bad song on repeat the thought keeps playing until I devour said food.

Okay seriously,  as I write this I am digesting chicken wings and fried rice (said forbidden food) conveniently delivered to my door.  However tasty I'm pretty sure it doesn't help me with the whole being less fat thing I'd like to work on.

Usually the whole New Years schtick is set on the tried at true scientific procrastinators theorem which is a follows

(Good Intentions + Netflix + Snacks)  x Tomorrow  = Nope

Or as a word problem

Katie wants to spend 2015 working on being an amazing parent and losing some pounds.  Suddenly January is over and few things have changed.  In February, the month of lurve,  she eats chocolate.  Conveniently the same month Game of Thrones is on Netflix which she watched in moderation (snicker.)  Suddenly Katie realized it's March which is practically Spring so she then waited until April (insert Easter and add more chocolate) to consider her life changes.   Does Katie really batten down the hatches and start thinking about these (insert air quotes) goals or does she make popcorn and wait for 2016?

So I'm thinking  that instead of a grandiose goal that leads to another year feeling unchallenged and unchanged that perhaps it's time for a itsy bitsy teeny speck of an idea. Basically, I will try... dun dun dun



(dramatic pause)




cooking from scratch. I should clarify I will not be making pasta and there will be cans and jars involved but no spray cheese.  I am not Martha or Julia but I can follow a recipe.  Basically it's cheaper and hopefully tastier with less additives.  I think it's realistic minus the temptation of Chinese food delivery which is a miracle of the modern age.

We shall see.  I think 2015 will be a year of stuff or something.