Thursday, February 11, 2010

The straw that broke my scale...

Yep - I'm doing something as cliched and "so 5 years ago" as writing a blog.

For one reason or another you have come here to read it. Maybe you're a friend or a colleague. Maybe I don't know you at all. Either way I'm opening up to you about a struggle of mine.

Yesterday I weighed 221 pounds.

Weight has been a perpetual embarrassment for me since Junior High. I'm not athletic and I have a sweet tooth. I'm not that physically active and my job consists of sitting in a dark room 12 hours a day.

I don't want sympathy. What I am trying to do is motivate my self to drop to 185 in the next 6 months. 221 is the most I have ever weighed in my life.

185 in six months. No diet drinks. No diet pills. Eat less. Eat right. Exercise. How hard can it be?

This blog will consist of progress reports - at least one per week. By putting this out in the public, I will have a great deal of motivation to see this through.

36 pounds in six months. Today is Feb 11th. Aug 11th is the cutoff. Think I can do it?

You bet your ass I can.