Where do I start - alot has happened since January. I have had a minor Heart Attack, had to quit smoking and quit caffine! Now I have a blood clot - I have had to up my blood pressure medication, I am borderline diabetic, and I am on Coumadon which is rat posion for my blood clot.... BOTTOM LINE I HAVE TO LOSE THIS WEIGHT OR IT IS GOING TO KILL ME!!!! Choices it is all about choices.... mine are changing today! So today is day one of my six month journey - 120 days from today will be - October 20th 2012 and the goal is to weight 160 pds -- current weight 280 -- weigh in days are Saturday! Here we go!

Day 3

Can not find a real substitute for butter....can't find one.........can't find one..... Looking like I will be able to keep eggs for breakfast! I think I will do eggs boiled one day, scrambled one day,  then Oatmeal one day, then omelet one day. then start over.... will have fruit and veggies mixed in each day. Now to figure out Lunch and Supper rotations.

Day 2 continued---

Ok here is the game plan -
As much fresh food as possible. Fruits and veggies. Meats ---- lean beef, chicken, tuna, turkey, salmon ---
List of foods that can help weight loss
eggs
beans
apples
bananas
tomato's
nuts
berries
Peanut butter
honey
low fat dairy
Garlic
Ginger
Spicy
cardamon
Green Tea in small amounts
Whole Grain bread
enova oil
olive oil
oatmeal
fish oil

Known problem areas for me
cheese
pasta
white bread
ski

Here we go........

Day 2

Spent about 5 hours searching the net for free information on how to loss weight. Oh my word, can you say deadly circle of finding nothing, I can tell you that there are about a million diets out there. I found every thing from the caveman diet to the Jesus diet. The bottom line of what I did figure out last night is that I am going to work on the idea of eliminating processed food from my daily diet.
The other big thing is water. I drink none right now. What I drink is one of biggest problems. I love Ski. For those not from my area it is the best thing on the planet!! It is kind of like Mt. Dew but completely different. It is a citric soda that I drink anywhere from 6 to 10 a day. Which equals between 1200 to 1800 calories a day just from what I drink.
My preliminary figuring for a daily calorie count should be 1700 to 1800 calories a day. The math is simple If I continue to drink my beloved Ski's I CAN'T EAT anything. So they have to go.
I found a scary fact that 90 percent of people in the US are dehydrated. Did you hear me dehydrated --- what is that about we have an unlimited supply of water and we are dehydrated. So, what does that really mean, we chose not to drink water. The is going to be one of my key elements no soda and lots and lots of water!
Today I going to investigate more into the processed food issues. I will post my findings later.

Day 1 -

I hate that my life has become about weight. My health has come to the point that I have to do something. The Doctor's have said I must loss 100 pds.... My current weight is 256 pds so the 150 range is where they want me. I have no patients for long term results so here we go.

This blog is going to be about my journey in the coming days I have given myself 120 days to complete my mission. The mission is "to loss this weight once and forever and get healthy in the process!"

I have had weight issues my entire life. Bottom line is if I eat what I want, and drink what I want, I am the size I am now. In the past I have starved myself to lose weight but of course it comes right back. This time I am going to try and decipher all the information out there and come up with a plan that will work long term I am giving myself 10 days to research and come up with a game plan!

Hope you enjoy the journey with me --- I am sure I will have good days and bad ones. Mostly, I just don't want to feel alone if I do this blog I feel like I will be helping others maybe.