The start

It started in April.

Well, it started long before that, but we'll say it started in April.

My boyfriend started on some blood pressure medicine, and I noticed that my knee was really starting to hurt. Oh, I knew we were overweight. I'm not blind.  I knew that we'd both blown past being simply "chubby" a while ago and now we're firmly into the "fat" category.  In fact, I am probably in what my favorite "fluffy" comedian Gabriel Iglesias calls the "DAAAMN!" category.

I decided that it was time to do something about this.  Only, what to do?

Diet, of course, would be the major part.  But what diet? We'd both done Atkins before, with some moderate success, but even though I felt amazing by cutting white sugar and bread out of my life, I did not enjoy plowing face first into a birthday cake (Okay, I kinda did enjoy it) and then not being able to really get myself back on track.  I'd attempted South Beach, but it only lasted about a week.  Slim-Fast didn't do squat for me because I like to chew.  Weight Watchers was pretty decent, but I quit because I was taking a medication that caused weight gain and I felt like an ass going to meetings every week and gaining.

But it couldn't be THAT hard to just do what I knew to be good. More vegetables, less red meat, smaller portions.  Couldn't be simpler, am I right?

Nope. Wrong!

I didn't take a couple of things into account.  One, I'm not THAT great of a cook when it comes to healthy stuff.  Being both Texan and Latina is a handicap because I like very rich, heavy food.  I'm great at making comfort food!  And then, two?  My boyfriend really doesn't like vegetables!!

As much as I love recipe sites and blogs, none of them have really told me what to do with a picky eater.  Plus, a lot of them act like dinner time is an episode of Chopped with all kinds of weird ingredients I wouldn't know on sight, much less know what to do with.  I feel, a lot of the time, that I'm flying blind in the world of healthy eating.

So what is this blog about?  Food.  Being fat.  Being picky. Being hungry. There will be cursing. There will be bitching.  There will be pictures and recipes that usually won't have more than 5 or 6 fairly simple ingredients.

But more importantly, there will be hope and progress. And in the end?  There will be health.