Day One

That sounds grim. I suppose it's all in my attitude. I'm ready to turn that around!

I'm beginning this blog as a way to document the progress and regress (?) on what I hope to be the climax of a life long road to health (read: weight struggles). I must lose weight. There are dozens of reasons...but there's nothing unique and they'll all come out in future posts. (Lucky you!) I love how I'm already writing as though I have an audience. At least I amuse myself.

I read plenty of blogs, so I know a huge reason to begin a blog is to keep yourself accountable. So, here I am: accounting.

The Plan: I'm not going to rush this. In the past, I've always set deadlines and then became totally derailed if I didn't reach them. So this time, I'm just going to do the unthinkable...exercise consistently and make better nutritional choices - one bite at a time. I did lose a significant amount of weight this way in the past, but I noticed a disturbing side effect: the more weight I lost, the more insecure I felt and the more "flaws" I found. And I never really felt the loss (and it was a substantial 70 pounds). Perhaps I'll be able to work some of that out through the blog this time and I won't give up right before the end.

If there's anyone out there, I promise to come up with more entertaining post titles in the future.

I'll do an All About Me post shortly. Soon enough you'll know my weight loss history, my goals, my weight (gasp) and probably too much about my cat!

Okay, I'll stop here because I'm not used to talking to myself just yet.

Here I go...