5/30/07, 2:30 pm

If you got here from my other blog, you're likely to have guessed that I started this sort of on the spur-of-the-moment when my two-year-old distinguished between me as "big mama" and my spouse as "little mommy." My spouse has pretty much the body type I should have, with nicer legs--she's not tiny, just normal. Before last night, the kid had always used "big mama" to distinguish from "little [herself]"

I did look at Weight Watchers, and at a couple of other online diet places, and they seem to provide a tracking service, sometimes also calorie counting, and accountability of some kind. And they charge--some have an entry-level free service, but it's pretty bare bones.

So I don't think that there's anything there I need to pay for if I'm already maintaining a daily blog. I'm just creating an annex, but since what I'm blogging about here is rather more earthy than in my other blog, I can tell I'm already developing a somewhat different voice. One that says crap, for instance. If I'm going to blogging about this at all, I'm going to just assume I don't care what people think. Or I couldn't do it. Probably.

Also, I notice that right now I'm avoiding identifying my spouse and daughter by the initials I use for them in the other blog, and also the other blog's name. Not sure why. I'm going to let it be for now, see how this space evolves.

What I do know is that I'm committing to using it as a food and exercise diary. I am not going to count calories here any more than I do in real life, which is to say, not at all, but I sometimes will opt for a lower calorie thing even though I'm not keeping track over the course of a day.

Here's so far today:

Builder's bar with milk (not great to start the day with an energy bar--too much sugar--but they are easy to keep around and they have a hell of a lot of protein, so I'm less likely to fall back on sugar right away.)
Half a pear and some soft cheese
Everything bagel with cream cheese
Water from water bottle, then I managed to lose the top
Iced tea (Honest Tea, actually this is pretty low cal, 60 in a 16 ozs bottle)

Exercise:
Walked the boo to school
Light gardening (very light)
Worked register (standing)

that's all for now.