Celebrity Fit Club 6 premiered last night.  One of my favorite shows.  I’ve been trying to lose weight for a while now, and it happens and then it doesn’t.  Never reached my goal, though.

This show usually gets me motivated, and, after last night’s episode, it looks like it will do so again.  The basic premise is that celebrities (not A-List celebrities) are trying to get in shape and/or lose weight (many times it’s to try a comeback of some sort).  They are divided into two teams and the team that wins gets some great prize.

Maybe, it’s seeing the success stories on the show and stuff that creates the motivation within me.  I mean, I’ve been trying to lose weight because I want to be active in my son’s life (as well as the lives of any future children).  I want to be in shape so I can keep up with them and maybe be something that they strive to be like.

Thanks to the show, I have followed drill instructor Harvey Walden IV’s Celebrity Fit Club workout here and there.  I’ve just started that back up again, trying to do it regularly but usually getting it done 2 times per week.  For awhile, I also tried Dr. Ian’s Fat Smash Diet.  I lost weight and all, but I just didn’t stick to it, which I think is the issue with many people – the maintenance part.  I wonder what Dr. Ian’s diet would be like now that I am a vegetarian.

Also, I find “dieting” to sometimes be troublesome while being a vegetarian.  Not sure if others have experienced any of this.  Most books are written from the point-of-view of eating whatever you’re told to eat.  Maybe I just haven’t found a good Vegetarian healthy eating/weight loss book yet (haven’t really looked).  When reading different books, the “dinner” recipe may call for some meat.  I’m thinking – ok, I’ll substitute Tofu or the vegetarian meat.  Then I think, well, is there something specific in meat that they want the user to get out of at this point that maybe my substitutes don’t have?  Maybe I overthink it, I don’t know.  I even get Men’s Health magazine, and almost all the recipes they put in that mag is meat-related, which isn’t much help.  Why do I still get the magazine?  I think I have enough little exercises clipped from there by now.

I’m looking for ways to get in shape and eat right (healthy and lose weight).  Maybe I’ll come up with my own program.  Hell, Dr. Phil isn’t a real doctor, so I think I could do whatever I want.