The Beginning

"It starts at the very beginning, a very good place to start...'

I have tired time and time again to successfully attain my goal weight. I have tried a host of things, but I have never found anything that works. Yesterday I had a friend over and I said that if I spent the same amount of time working out as I did knitting I would be in fantastic shape.

Today I weigh in at 243.8 lbs, I am 6'1" BMI 32.1.

I am not 100% sure what I truly want my goal weight to be, but I do know that in the 200's is not where I am happy. A range would be 140 - 180. According to BMI, 140, is not a possibility, but 170 would not be bad for me.

The heaviest I have ever been was 250 lbs, so I am down 6.2 lbs, which I think is amazing, but I am not 100% sure how I did it.

My biggest problem is that I get down to 240, and I just seem to stop and am not able to get below that, sometimes I will hit 239, and that excites me, but after that I think I get conceited, and just either give up or go back to my old habits. 232 was the lowest I ever got, I was doing Ducan... but the problem here was I could not just eat protein, and vegetables, I live in a world full of food, and cheese, and wine, and although I am not a huge drinker, I will just eat.

So my goal list:

1. 240: buy kobo - technically I reached 240, and bought my kobo, but it came back again
2. 230: laser under arms
3. 220: unknown
4. 210: unknown
5. 200: unknown
6. 190: unknown
7. 180: unkown
8. 170: a miracle ;)

My good habits:

1. I walk about 9,000 steps a day, sometimes as high as 20,000
2. I drink about 4 litres of water a day
3. I always eat breakfast

My bad habits:

1. Going to bed, thinking mmm I think I want a snack, and having a snack, instead of sleeping
2. Waking up thinking mmm I am hungry and eating instead of drinking a glass of water
3. I eat one item, am not satisfied and then just eat until I find something that makes my craving go away. 
4. If food is left out I will graze, continually, or if I am making dinner I will eat while I am making dinner, and probably eat enough to count as dinner before I eat dinner. 

This is the beginning what I hope will be a wonderful change, and a change that will stick and make me feel like a more wonderful, fabulous, complete human being. It is on the internet for me, not really for anyone else, but I needed to somewhat declare it to the world to see if I could be accountable to the world and not just to myself.