Maiden Post.....

Hi Blog Readers!
I don't know if anyone will read this blog, but it is more for me than anything else. I know that more people than ever are struggling to lose weight, and I am one of them. I have not always been chunky, it is a rather recent development (5 years), but I can already tell that it is not in my best interest to remain this way (i.e. sore ankles and knees). So I have made a contract with myself, God, and anyone else who wants to follow my voyage that it is time to reclaim the skinny me again.
Although I am embarassed about how big I am, and the reasons that I allowed myself to become this way, I have decided that honesty is always the best policy, and this blog will contain all the brutal honesty that I can muster. So today I have started the process of reclaiming my health by starting the hCG diet, which claims to have people losing a lb/day...... We'll see.

I will include the customary stats in each blog that I post; current weight, total weight lost, and lbs. to my goal (and hopefully a picture most days). So, for today that would appear: 266.0 Lbs/0 Lbs/91 to go
Now, some people may comment that 175 lbs may not be healthy for my 5'8" frame, but I am trying to weigh the same amount that I weighed when I was in college and met my wonderful husband, I think that I can let myself be happy and healthy at that weight.

So for those of you who don't know, the first 2 days of the hCG diet consist of eating large quantities of fat to help activate the hormone in my daily injection, so today has been thrilling. Donuts and cappucino for breakfast, McD's for lunch, and some rotten meal in on the plan for dinner, with chocolate snacks throughout the day :) . I have the customary hCG headache, and have discovered that my upper thigh was not the best place to inject (it stung). I have injected my bum on day 1, and didn't even feel that one.......so I guess more in the bum for me.

Day 2 has been quite a success, lets see what day 3 brings when I am down to a 500 calorie diet and have to banish my addiction: Diet Cherry Coke.