Day 5

     Today is Halloween. Thankfully it's almost over. I didn't think it'd be so hard to resist eating candy all day. Thankfully my trip to the grocery store yesterday was successful. I bought a ton of different foods so it keeps me from being bored while starting this diet. Looks like all I have left on my agenda for the evening is watching a horror movie in bed (I mean c'mon, I have to do something for Halloween) and then it's lights out. I have a sore throat and could definitely use some sleep. Weigh in is in 3 more days!

Day 3

Day 3 is coming to a close. I had to order a lettuce wrap today from my local sandwich shop because I have nothing to eat in the house. Well, nothing even remotely healthy anyway. So I settled for a turkey lettuce wrap. Crazy thing is that they cost the same as their subs. That's not quite fair! I added some cucumbers to it, no mayo, and a dab of mustard for flavor. It helped but it still didn't fill me up very much. Looks like tomorrow I need to go grocery shopping!

Day 2

   I haven't really come up with a set in stone PLAN yet. I know a couple things though for certain! I am cutting out ALL alcohol and limiting the portions I eat. Doesn't sound like much right now, but the not drinking booze part is bound to help out more than it would seem. Did you know that in each shot of (40%) liquor there is about 100 calories? I'm not going to go into details about exactly how much I drank before but if you add those calories and the calories of the mixers, I'm cutting out 1000-2000 (or more) calories A DAY.
   My mother is also trying to lose weight with me. She suggested I start writing down what I eat each day so I can look at it at the end of the week and apparently be disgusted. So far, reading it just makes me hungry... I'm hoping that will change.
  In a few weeks, once I get into the swing of being deprived of all the delicious baked goods in the world, I'm hoping to start adding in daily walks, working out on the total gym, etc, to the schedule. My main thing is just to not get burnt out right away. I have a long journey ahead of me. It helps to look in the mirror every morning and say to myself "This is the last day I'll look like this", knowing that if I can get down to a lower weight I will never go back again.
   I'll update my (hopefully) new weight every week. Goodbye Day 2!

Day 1

    I suppose a good way to start this is to first explain how I got here in the first place. I was 17 years old at the time and had just started dating a guy who would turn out to be my first (more so) serious relationship. I soon dropped out of High School and fell into the lifestyle of partying every night with him and his friends. Wake up, invite friends over, drink, smoke, eat, pass out, rinse and repeat. This went on for the entirety of our two year relationship. At some point during it, I was forced to move out of my mother's house and find a place of my own. Lucky for me, I had friends who moved in with me to help out with bills. Unlucky for me, these friends, like me, were into the same things as I was and I never quite grew out of my careless lifestyle. I am now 23 years old and a staggering 170 lbs heavier than what I used to be before all of this.
    I know that it is time to turn my life around. Well, I guess I have known for quite awhile now but procrastination is the one thing I'm truly wonderful at. However there's only so long you can hide from yourself. So I've started this blog to help me express some of the things that are on my mind and to have to look back on (hopefully in a 'WOW, so glad that's over!' sort of way) in the future.
   
      So without further ado... I weigh 300 lbs and this is Day 1.