Day 1, A New Beginning

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

I have said that statement many times throughout my constant trying to lose weight. However I think I have come to the realization that I really need to make today the day. I had a chat with my brother last night, another person who has struggled with his weight for a lot of his life yet seems to have the will power and dedication of a bull. I am so proud of him for sticking with it and even when set backs occurred he pushed on and has seen the results he wanted. If any of you out there are struggling with weight, and I am sure that there are, you should really check out his website: http://sites.google.com/site/getstayslim/, it is very helpful and really gets one into the right mindset. My brother uses weight watchers as a base to his diet, incorporating some very strict, but very doable rules that will ensure success if one is willing. His website contains links for one to determine the amount of % body fat, BMI, and healthy weight range. Therefore I went ahead and calculated each of these things. As of last night I had 24.8% body fat!!!! The website further instructed me that 50 lbs of my body weight was fat, so in a sense I am carrying around 50 lbs of butter. To me that is just discussing. As a pre-vet major I have learned a lot about the food industry and am so angry at myself for allowing the bigger "man" of America get to me so easily with his old dairy cow processed hamburger meat, fake chicken, and every thing left over hot dogs, to name a few. When I spoke to my brother last night, he said start now, do not wait till tomorrow because you wont start. And so for the very first time I started at that minute right then and there. I had already gone over my points for the day I am sure, as I went to IHOP for lunch and had eaten three scones. So instead of having another high calorie meal I settled for an apple and some cereal and even though I was hungry I woke up feeling lighter and good about my self.

This morning I stepped on the scale and it read 195.6 pounds. In my case this actually made me feel good considering when I stepped on the scale yesterday it said 197.8. At least the scales did not read close to 200 as they have done within the last few months. However despite these facts 195.6 pounds is nothing really to be happy about when I aim to be 135 or 140 pounds. So I am starting anew with 195.6 pounds being the absolute most I will ever weigh again!

I began counting points this morning. However due to rushing around trying to get to class I had to grab one of my home made raisin scones. However I ate it without any butter and am estimating 4 weight watcher points. With my weight range weight watchers recommends between 24-27 points per day. So I am not doing that bad so far, however as I write these sentences I am starting to feel hungry and ate the scone only an hour ago, so I must look into better breakfast substitutes.

As for exercise, well I have never been one to really enjoy going to the gym. Now dont get me wrong, I love to go outside, go camping, horse back riding, etc... Last night I was reading my copy of Woman's World, which women by the way is a great magazine for weight loss tips and very interesting little facts. It is only $1.70 and so one of the cheapest magazines out there. In the magazine there was an article about Jennifer Aniston and how she uses Yoga to keep her body feeling healthy and looking great. There are some free videos on You Tube one can watch to do some mini Yoga Workouts. I think I will give this a go for at least a couple weeks and see if I like this better.

So today is the first day of the rest of my life. I hope to use this blog to write about my success and hopefully not my failures.