Does this sound familiar?

You decide to begin a new diet. Once you begin, you have to either weigh the food you're going to eat or count calories or portions somehow. You dig out paper and pencil, a food scale, calculator and any another gadgets that go with your new diet plan and start tracking.

Then comes the fun part - at first. You get to shop for new ingredients for your diet recipes. However, this "fun" quickly turns into "frustration" trying to locate hard-to-find herbs and another specialty items.

You saved money by not buying unhealthy foods. Yet you complete up disbursement on diet gadgets, weight loss meetings and weigh-ins and high-priced ingredients and foods.

After just about a week of this, combined with running the kids to their activities, the pet