New to this site but I really like the idea of these journals. Sometimes it gets lonely when trying to make such drastic changes. My wife is also dieting (I am going to keep calling it a diet but they have reallt been life style changea) so I am not alone but sometimes you need others to help as well. There have been things that we thought were good and I found out we were wrong.
We started our diet on Jan 8th. I was at 300 (5 foot 11) pounds and feeling horrible about myself. My self esteem was super low. I would buy big and long shirts to try to hide myself. The bad thing is I know it is not hiding anything.
My main problem is drinking pop. We also eat out too much and fast food way too much.
As I said, on Jan 8th we decided to start. My goal is to get to 199 by Jan 31st next year and her goal is to lose 50 pounds by the same time. Right now we are not going to exercise at all but we have made small changes like parking at the end of lots and adding in extra steps everywhere we can. The reason we have decided this is 1, we are very busy and it is hard to work it in and 2, I am worried about plataeuing so I want there to be something easy to add down the road.
As far as food. We have each started weight watchers but the old version of it. I have all the books and I have an app from someone else so we elected t just stick to the old version. As part of that we have given up all pop and all fast food.
We are a little over a month into the journey and I am down 20 pounds and my wife is down 14 pounds. I am on day 42 of no pop.
Some days have been hard but overall I feel like we are both doing a great job so far.
We started our diet on Jan 8th. I was at 300 (5 foot 11) pounds and feeling horrible about myself. My self esteem was super low. I would buy big and long shirts to try to hide myself. The bad thing is I know it is not hiding anything.
My main problem is drinking pop. We also eat out too much and fast food way too much.
As I said, on Jan 8th we decided to start. My goal is to get to 199 by Jan 31st next year and her goal is to lose 50 pounds by the same time. Right now we are not going to exercise at all but we have made small changes like parking at the end of lots and adding in extra steps everywhere we can. The reason we have decided this is 1, we are very busy and it is hard to work it in and 2, I am worried about plataeuing so I want there to be something easy to add down the road.
As far as food. We have each started weight watchers but the old version of it. I have all the books and I have an app from someone else so we elected t just stick to the old version. As part of that we have given up all pop and all fast food.
We are a little over a month into the journey and I am down 20 pounds and my wife is down 14 pounds. I am on day 42 of no pop.
Some days have been hard but overall I feel like we are both doing a great job so far.
