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I’ve finally decided to give my diet another try. I haven’t had much success with dieting this year, but I’m looking forward to starting again on Sunday or Monday. I wanted to start on the first of the month but that falls on a Saturday and I know I’ll have too much going on to start an exercise regimen. I think Monday will be the perfect time to start. I have some healthy foods that I can eat for three meals per day and I plan to get some more fruit as well.

The only hard part about dieting will be the exercise. It’s unfortunate that I don’t have any exercise equipment to use. All I have to work with are exercise videos, so that will have to be enough for now. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to join a gym soon. I’d love to get my hands on those treadmills and ellipticals. I can burn a lot of calories on those. I don’t want to use not having exercise equipment as an excuse not to diet, so I’m going to do the best that I can with what I have for now!

I really miss the summer barbecues that my family used to have every year. They were always so much fun. We would cook out almost every weekend for pretty much the whole day. Many of our close neighbors would even come to our barbecues. I think they looked forward to them just as much as we did. I think it’s been well over five years since we’ve had one of those summer family barbecues. Partly because we no longer live in such a big house and partly because my uncle passed away. He was the one who used to handle the grill.

Lately my mom has been mentioning purchasing a grill so we can start having small family barbecues. It will only be the people in my household pretty much, but I’m actually looking forward to it. I just miss the taste of grilled food. We’ve been considering getting a small electric grill to grill vegetables on as well. I’ve never had an electric grill, so I’m not sure how that will work. It’s worth trying though!

I’m starting to hate surfing the Internet as much as I used to hate seeing commercials at night while watching television. There are always so many weight loss ads. It’s funny because there are just as many food ads. I think it’s a conspiracy because I usually see the weight loss ads right after I see the food ads. It’s like they make you want food and then when you give into the temptation they tell you that you’re fat and need to lose weight. What’s up with that?!

I know it’s not a coincidence. Every time I see an ad for food I get hungry and run to the kitchen to get a snack. Then by the time I start enjoying the food, here comes an ad for some weight loss product or supplement like Lipofuze. I immediately start feeling horrible that I ate the snack and I beat myself up for the rest of the night. It’s a vicious weight cycle!

I can’t believe it’s been over six months since I’ve watched an actual television set. I love watching my favorite movies and television shows online. I’ve been subscribing to a few different services and I couldn’t be happier. Sometimes I have to wait to see the things that I want to watch, but I really don’t miss TV. There was never anything on television. Even when I had cable I couldn’t find anything to watch. It’s disappointing to have one to five shows to watch a month out of the hundreds of shows and channels. It was a waste of money paying for that. Now I just subscribe to websites that let me watch things that they don’t even show on television anymore.

The other good thing about watching shows and movies online is that I never have to worry about commercials. Of course when I watch free things online I’ll see an occasional ad for something like enzyte, but even that’s not too bad since it doesn’t happen very often!