Hello world!
So this is my first ever blog…essentially a journal entry that everyone can read. Wow, I feel so brave! I don’t exactly know where to start……
I am a 39 year old student who has fought, or ignored, my weight for as long as I can remember. As a child I was athletic but never skinny. I tried my first official diet when I was in 10th grade. Physicians Weight Loss, I think it was. The premise was no bread, fruit, starches, etc. 500 calories a day for the two weeks, and then add 100 calories a week, potassium drinks 3x a day, protein drinks 3x a day, go to the office once a week for them to check my urine to ensure I was spilling ketones, and a B-Complex shot once per week. Sheesh….
I was on this diet until I got to 900 calories a day. I lost 50 lbs in 2 months. It was amazing! I was one of the skinny girls! 115lbs. But unfortunately it set me up to regain quickly. Can you believe they said it was healthy to survive on less that 1000 calories for 2 months…as an active teenager it sucked. They told me DO NOT EXERCISE! What a fad that diet was…
Skip ahead 24 years and here I am. I am trying to take control of what I have let myself become.
O.K. enough morose stuff….barf.
Today is my forth day of South Beach. The bottle of unopened wine in my fridge has been calling, but I haven’t listened. I had a friend over for the game yesterday and she wanted to open it. I told her no, if it’s opened, it is too much of a challenge, but unopened it shows the power I have not to choose it. Does that make sense at all?
I need to drink more water today. Thats a tough one, but I think it will help me alot. I have been eating clean for 4 days…woohooo!