Getting it Off!

First of all here is my confession, I have been fighting with baby fat for over 40 years now and it really is time to get this stuff off!
The knees are going faster and faster down hill and the Orthopedic doc said I needed to loose 100 pounds. He suggested going the LAP band route, but I developed ITP and I’m taking that idea off the menu. The only slicing and dicing I’m willing to go for is the boob reduction and that’s coming soon.
When I realistically take a look at all the weight lost programs out there I feel Weight Watchers will work the best for me. Some time ago I had told my primary care doctor that I wanted to loose weight and he suggested that I keep a journal to record what I was eating. He also suggested that I stop drinking soda and juice. He said have the real fruit and not the juice. Stopping the soda wasn’t too bad and since that time I don’t drink Pepsi like I use to, but sometimes I just have to have a Pepsi jolt. As far as the juice is concerned it’s still easier to drink than to always have the fruit around. Now though we look for sugar free juices.
So now to the reason for creating this blog; I realize that I enjoy writing and publishing my work and getting feed back from other people. I figure I just might do a lot better in my quest for losing weight if I have some way to vent my success and set backs. I also like the medium better than keeping a paper journal, in that I can add pictures and things along the way.
I’ve known for many years that my weight was creeping up, but like some people I didn’t keep a scale around so I didn’t have a constant numeric reminder of the pound attack. I kept track by the way my clothing size steadily increased; from an 18/20 to 22/24 and now 26/28!
Even though I knew that my weight was going up I still told myself that I looked good. Then one day while I was out with my girlfriend, Deb, I saw myself in a walled mirror and nearly had a cow! Was that really my ass sticking so far off my body that it looked like a trailer! I was horrified. I always paid close attention to the front part of me, but the rear was in the back. Plus since I didn’t wear dresses I wasn’t worried about the skirt part being hitched up in the back. You know what I mean, where the back part of the skirt looks like a piece of window curtain.
People gain weight for a mired of reasons. Me, I just like to eat and enjoy good food. I’m not a junk food junkie, but I do admit to loving food. As a kid I went through the usual puppy fat stage and promptly loss the weight when I entered high school. I was also a smoker than too, and constantly on the go with school activities. Along came college, nothing changed except the location. Then marriage and baby and life as I knew it changed. During the years the weight crept up and up. Every so often I would try some silly thing to bring it down and it wouldn’t work.
For years my doctor and family had been after me to quit smoking. I knew it wasn’t doing my health any good but I really enjoyed it. Anyway I finally stopped smoking and promptly gained umpteen pounds.
I don’t remember how I wound up at a Weight Watcher meeting, I think it was because of one of the girls at work, I don’t know. Anyway I do remember that it did work and I loss weight and was happy. Well, here I am some 35 years later and I’m giving it another try. I want to be successful this time.
So join me on this voyage through the calorie jungle. My eventual goal is to loose 100 pounds; however, I will celebrate my small losses along the way. I plan to sign up at the local Weight Watchers meeting on July 3, 2008.