Day 1

So here is day 1 Goals:

1. No "mindless" snacking
2. Excercise 20 minutes

I think we all want to lose weight with no effort. I want to be healthy, but the eating part is hard for me, as I don't really like "diet" foods - no salads, no tons of veggies, etc. I also have trouble with meals besides dinner. I like fast and easy and I also want it to taste good. Not an easy combo for the diet world. I'm going to try not "dieting" becacuse I've heard that you can't keep it off for five years - starvation doesn't work - it only leads to binging and gaining the weight back.

What I want to work up to is 45mins to 1 hour of excercise every day, at least 30 of that being cardio/type workouts or walking. I'd like to work on strength and muscle tone 3-5 days per week. Besides excercises I want to only eat when I'm hungry, drink more water and eat more fruits and veggies in general. I also want to cut down on "fat" only foods like potato chips and cheesy poofs. I don't plan to cut all the fat out of my diet, but pretzels and popcorn make more filling snacks anyway. I'd also like to start limiting my non-diet pop intake, i.e. set a limit of 1 non-diet pop type drink per week and move that to every two weeks, then once a month. I'd like to lose an average of 1.5lbs per week, but there will probably be more in the beginnings and less as the days go by, so my first goal is a little more than my additional goals for 2008.

Current Weight - 271.4lbs
Goal 4/1/08 - 252lbs
Goal 7/1/08 - 235lbs
Goal 10/1/08 - 220lbs
Goal 1/1/09 - 200lbs

So that's a total of 70 lbs for the "year" which is pretty close to 1.5lbs per week for the next 47 weeks. I'll update goals and list my weight every week as well as measurements each Monday. Should be fun.

Weight Loss Day 1

Re-starting a New Year's Resolution

They say a good way to lose weight is to blog about it, so instead of filling up my LJ with weight loss posts, I decided to move it to one spot, so I could just sit here and blog.

So there you have it. I'll put my stats up tomorrow.