A New Blog

About me:
I've been blogging around here at http://cravingchange.blogspot.com/. I like my cravingchange blog, but frankly, I've been calling myself "Drummergirl" there for a while. I wanted something of a clean slate, something that's me that could convey things as they are today.

As a rule, I've been anonymous on Blogger. I don't plan on changing that, so if you know my Sekrit Identity please keep it as such. I'd like this to be a place I can be honest without worrying about who may see it. If you know me in "real life", though, I'm happy to have you here. Good friends are like socks, I can never have too many. My husband on the other hand really does have too many socks.

I like drumming, video games, gardening, hiking, and probably some other random stuff. I'm your standard geek working in software.

Why I'm Here:
My husband has decided to go on the hCG diet. This is one of the single most weird things in over 14 years of being together.

He hasn't had a lot of luck with normal weight loss strategies. Part of that is that they take time and he's busy, always on the go. Another part of it is that I think he gets discouraged that it seems to take so long. Weight loss and health is a journey.

I've walked this road before. I'm ideally suited for helping him rock this bitch down the street, around the corner, and up the hill, all without going over the cliff on the other side.

Cravingchange was, at it's core, about empowerment, about wanting to shake things up. Reading back, there's a lot of soul searching. Seeing my husband go through a lot of me wanting to empower myself. When I first started the cravingchange blog, the second post said the following:

There is nothing more empowering than realizing, “I can.”

My husband is there now, so I'm along for the ride.

What to expect:
I'm not the only person supporting a spouse on a diet like this. One thing I'd like to do here is get out my thoughts on it, and give some tips and tricks to help others as we move along. Recipes, ways to alter them for the non-hCG dieter, rants and raves as need, and a dash of my own brand of crazy, as I am undoubtedly a bit nutty in the head.