My first ever blog post

Hello everyone! Or just Tessa. LOL.
Today I learned how to cook fresh shrimp for the first time in my life. It's gray and ugly when it comes out of the package but it was so easy. I bought the de-veined and peeled kind, but the tails were still on. I defrosted it in a strainer with cold water from the sink. Then i heated up my little saute pan and added about a tsp of minced garlic and about a tbsp of diet margarine. I put the shrimp in the pan and flipped it around with a spatula until it turned pink and started to curl up a little. Then I took it out of the pan and ATE it!!! YUMMY!!!
I am not a very good cook. Or maybe I should say, not very confident. But let me back up a little. I have enrolled myself in a diet program that has counselors available to me 6 days a week. I bought the shrimp because it is one of the things on the food list that I am allowed to have. (But not the kind that's already pink cuz it is supposedly full of sodium). So I was determined to figure out how to make it. My counselor told me what to do. She gave me the boost to get over my fears and just try it. I think it came out great!!
I don't think the fancy diet program is a must for everyone, but for me to lose weight, it definitely IS a must. I need the structure and accountability. I have to go in to the center at LEAST 3 times a week and show them my FOOD DIARY!!! Oh, the horrors of it all!! Anyway, it is working for me. :-)
I am learning sooo much about how to eat healthy and how to lose weight and how to help myself with my addiction to food that is bad for me. I know this blog will help me to keep track of my thinking about all of this. I hope this blog will help you, too.