The Plan

OK, I'm going to try and lay it all out here. The idea behind this blog is to help track my weight loss in the coming year. A couple of weeks are left in 2009, and I probably should start with my goals now. However, I'm going to procrastinate a few more weeks. The plan is to get started next year. I guess it could be called a New Year's resolution.

I am resolved to take on a healthier lifestyle in the year 2010 in order to lose about 50 pounds. Also I also have set another goal of running at least one half marathon. Actually, I would like to do at least two, with a stated goal of doing the second one in less than 2 hours, but I do not want to set my sights too high with the idea that I could too easily fail.

Here the situation: I have become a tub of goo. I do not know what my current body weight is, but I would easily put it over 200, probably around 215 to 220 pounds, which is just way to heavy. I want to look and feel better; losing weight will help lead me to this goal. I have ideas of how I am going to go about losing the weight. I plan to eat healthier and to do more exercise.

I hate to say that I'm going on a diet, because I am always on a diet. Your diet is what you eat, and currently my diet is not extremely healthy, so what I want to say is that I am going to try to eat healthier. I have ideas about how I can improve my diet, and it will take a lot of willpower to follow through and to eat healthier. But I believe that if I put my mind to it, and I tell myself over and over that I have to follow through with eating healthier than I can do it. I will do it. Willpower=mind over matter.

I know that I currently eat too much. Yes, I eat many unhealthy foods, but one of my biggest faults is that I overconsume. So one of my first goals is to eat less in order to eat healthier. I also would like change some of my food choices, but I think first and foremost I have to eat less.

I plan to keep this blog as a journal to keep track of my goals. As a way to motivate myself to keep on track. I would like to keep a food journal on here so that I am able to eat healthier and track what it is that I am eating. I also would like to post a photo of myself on here before I actually start this diet, so that we can all see the tub of goo that I have become, and hopefully as I follow this diet we can post additional photos of me, so we can see how my body changes.

It would be great if I could get some people to follow my progress and give me words of encouragement as I follow through with this, but I guess I will have to wait and see if that happens. So that's the plan in a nutshell. I'll be back!