New Beginnings

I deleted all of my old blog posts.  Why?  Because I was inconsistent at best, and know that I'm better than that.  So, here's to new beginnings and up to date posting.

Here's a brief history, I grew up always being the skinny kid.  I never had problems with my weight and was very active through high school, so consistantly weighed about 110lbs.  Halfway through my senior year of high school I got a job at a local bank, quit playing sports, and started eating poorly.  By the time I went to college the following fall I was 120lbs, which is still a healthy weight for my height and frame.  By the time I left college four years later I was 140lbs, which is slightly overweight.

After college I moved to Oklahoma and started working for Dell.  Two years later I was engaged to be married and was 166lbs.  I was not about to walk down the aisle as a fatty, so I started Weight Watchers and by the time I got married six months later I was 147lbs.  I was really proud of myself, but a year later I was tipping the scales at 170lbs.  170lbs is not gargantuan, but it is about 30 lbs overweight.

This past summer I tried the Dukan diet for a month.  I dropped down to 158lbs that month, and managed to keep it off.  For the past three weeks, I stuffed my face and didn't pay the least bit of attention to my weight, and was not at all surprised when I stepped on the scales yesterday and saw that I was 163lbs.  I decided that I wasn't going to let this number keep creeping up, so I started Dukan again in the hopes of dropping about 10lbs before Christmas.

10lbs in two months is only slightly over one pound a week and is a completely attainable goal.  By decreasing the amount of carbs and sugars and fatty oils I eat, and increasing my intake of veggies and lowfat protein, along with 20-30 minutes of light cardio a day should help me easily attain my goal.  I say that I'm decreasing my carbs and sugars because that's what I'm doing, decreasing, not cutting out.  Removing these necessary foods completely from your diet will do nothing but put your body in a state of ketosis and make you want to overindulge when the opportunity presents itself.

Anyway, this week I'm going to focus on detoxing my body by eating mostly lowfat proteins and dairy.  By this weekend I should have jumpstarted my weightloss and will be ready to re-introduce more carbs and veggies to my diet.  I'm going to make sure to write down what I eat daily here in this blog, and will once a week upload my handy-dandy weight loss chart to track progress.

The most recent pics of myself that I have are when I was 170lbs this summer:

According to the scale this morning, I'm 162lbs, which is down 1.5lbs since yesterday.

To eat, yesterday I had one egg and one egg white in the morning, my lunch consisted of a grill chicken breast and string cheese, and my dinner turned out disaterous, so I ended up eating two turkey hot dogs and a shake that I made for myself with some peanut butter, sugar free chocolate syrup, sweetener, fiber, ice, and milk.  Oh!  I also had a few M&M's and some oat bran mixed with cinnamin and milk for a snack.  (Oatbran is a complex carb, and is a lot better for you than eating white breads).

Today I had one egg white and one egg along with two slices of turkey bacon for breakfast.  I have lunch plans with a friend to a local mexican restaurant, and I'll probably get the spinich enchilladas because I love them.  For dinner I'm planning on some chicken, not sure how I'm going to make it yet, though.

Finally, here's the chart with only two days on it.  Of course, I'll update it daily and post it again next week, hopefully reflecting some lower numbers.