I started my diet today. As you can see in the above picture I really need to lose some weight. I stepped on the scale right after that picture was taken and was a little shocked and saddened to see that it read 223 pounds. On February 14th 2005 I gave up smoking; I said to myself that while I was quitting smoking that I was going to eat and drink whatever I wanted, at that time I weighed somewhere between 180 and 190 which means that over the last year and a half I have put on around 40 pounds. Well, I have stayed off the smokes and now the time has come to lose the weight that I put on in the process.

My goal is to get back down to 180ish, that is a good comfortable weight for me, I am by no means thin at that weight but it is a weight that works well for me. To achieve my goal I am doing a diet that I have done in the past and has worked really well for me. The diet is quite simple actually, my diet can be summed up with these simple words: “Stop eating when you are full”. I know this sounds silly but I find that often I am eating for the taste of the food rather than sustenance. For instance, I would go to Subway and order a footlong sandwhich when a six inch would fill me up, or ordering a pizza and eating 1/2 - 3/4 of a pizza when 3 slices would do the trick. I am also going to try eating better foods, I see a lot of salad lunches in my future and instead of snacking on chips and the like during the evening I will be munching on carrot sticks. I am also going to excercise every work day, I will do 40 minutes of cardio on my Schwinn Air-Dyne (mine is a much pimpier bronze/gold color) and every morning before I get in the shower and everynight before I go to bed I will do situps and pushups (as many as I can until I can do no more).

My goal is to post a picture on the first of every month to chart my progress and subject my readers (all three of you) to more semi nekkid pictures of myself. Wish me luck!