First Post

Today is my first post on a public blog... and I am here today to begin my diet nakedly. I actually started on Monday. Here's me:

I'm 24 years old, I am perpetually single, I work full-time, and I'm all done with college graduating with a Master's degree and, yes count'em 58 more lbs since I began college in fall of 2001 -- I started at 165. I now weigh 223. And I thought I was fat when I began college. Which is ironic, considering I am positive I now, being a true fattie myself has most likely pointed at a girl weighing 165 and thought "If I were skinny like her..."

My goal is to get down to my driver's license weight of 135. Which, by the way, is the same weight I put on there when I got my temporary permit license at the age of 15... and to be honest, it was a lie then. I think I weighed 145 at that time. Nowadays, I give my license to anyone and sit there praying they don't look at the weight and say "This isn't you. This chick apparetnly weighs almost 100 lbs less than you look." Fortuantely this has yet to happen and I pray that it never does.

So, this year has been especially bad. I moved across the country all alone and never really made any friends, except for every pizza delivery boy and fast food drive through worker in a 50 mile radius. I came home from work each night saying "I'm tired. I better go to the store and get a bag of chips." And I would. And I'd eat the whole bag again the next night and the next night. This diet, supplemented with at least one meal a day at a fast food restaurant of my choosing, helped me to go from 195 in September to 223 on April 16. Yes, I gained 28 lbs in 7 months. If you think about it, that's roughly 1lb a week -- very simple to do and notice, until your pants don't zip and you stop doing wash because if you dry anything you'll have nothing to wear. Or you have to wear a long shirt to not only cover your ever expanding butt, but also to cover the button on the front of the jeans which is , of course, unbuttoned!

So, Monday I got my first shipment of NutriSystem. I had never thought I'd do this particular diet, but I decided to begin it because I have tried Atkins, Weight Watchers, Cabbage Soup Diet, Some disgusting diet I read about In Woman's Day where you only ate Pureed Vegetables and choked down some nasty powder Diet, and of course the don't eat anything at all diet. All of them worked. I stuck to none. Too much freedom in a diet plan can make me just go over the top. Sad. So, I figure with being short on time and energy to eat right, I would give this a whirl. So far I have been 100%.

I know it is only day 6. To me it doesn't matter. My goal for myself is that every morning I will wake up and say, "Just for Today I will follow plan." And, amazingly I have so far. And, this week I've turned down free chocolate three times and buttered popcorn once, all at work. Internally I asked myself "If you could choose between being a size 18 and eating that piece of chocolate or skipping that chocolate and becoming a size 9 what would you choose?" And when the choice is so obviously simple like that, I chose the size 9. Magic huh?