The beginning of another failed project...

So I will yet again try to imprison myself in a system that I think works and will learn within a couple of weeks that it absolutely doesn't and I will leave it behind. But first, I must mention that I draw this idea from Megan Gauthier: http://corduroyveins.blogspot.com/, who is also tracking her weight loss adventure, should anyone be interested. And of course, from the Bridget Jone's Diary idea. 


The background on this journey:


I began dieting sometime in April, when I decided that I was a whale. I stepped on a scale and it only supported what I had already known. I was 214 pounds. I am only 5'6". That is gross. I began weight watchers and lost almost 25 lbs by July. Early in July I stopped dieting in fear of not fitting into my wedding gown and also because my grandmother had passed away. 


After the honeymooning and all associated wedding festivities, my new husband and I agreed to lose 30 pounds by Christmas. I again stepped on a scale to see how I was doing. It read 209. So early September I started (not seriously) back up on weight watchers. I weigh in on Fridays, and report to them how I'm doing. I have decided that I need more places to record my weight and that once weekly just isn't enough. Saturday morning I weighed 200.2 pounds. So this blog will be my second place to record what I'm doing and not doing well and what my weight is between weigh ins and my goal is still 30 pounds by Christmas, even if my husband fell off the wagon. I will go from my weight in September, so 30 pounds by Christmas brings me down to 179 pounds.

The present situation:

I will also record my BMI, which I want to know how I'm improving daily. I will record how I gave into temptation for the day. I will define temptation as any time that I ate something that I didn't need to but wanted it because it was there or if I could have made a healthier decision and didn't. I will also record what I exercised, if any (which I realize will be a none, more than anything else). I will also post my current pant size, with my eventual goal size. I will be realistic about this, I know that I will not be on here everyday and I will only post about one day when I do record, so it is your job to fill in the gaps. So here is what I will end my post with every time, but I will not give you this information today, because I just came home from a baby shower, and well I know what I ate and that what I ate during those four hours is all I will be eating for the entire day. And we'll ignore that today ever happened. So here is what my Saturday looked like:

Goal Weight: 179lbs by 12/25
Current Weight: 200.2lbs

Goal Pant Size: 8

Current Pant Size: 12

BMI: 32.3, which is "Obese"
Today's Temptation wins: Swedish Fish, Gatorade
Exercise: None