Back to where I started ...

3 months ago I started this blog, hoping to lose 50 pounds. After just 2 weeks, 20 pounds washed itself away and I made huge realizations about my eating habits ... sadly, even those realizations and the weightloss didn't help keep me from ballooning back up to where I started: 251.6 pounds.

I know that I'm not the only one with this problem - how can I be? I know that I'm not obese, but overweight certainly - and I need to lose this weight to get back into a comfortable place (in my life, and my pants!)

I wasn't dieting sensibly before - made obvious by the rapid weight gain after the rapid weight loss. A no-carbohydrate diet and tons of exercise worked in getting the pounds off - 20+, but it didn't keep me from gaining everything back once I stopped eating chicken, and gave in to pizza, burgers, and fast food drive thru's.

The weight came back almost as fast as it went - in less than 2 weeks, I was back into the 230's teetering the line to 240, and now - I'm above the 250 mark, again. My goal - is to be down to 200 by the end of June. We have a planned thing in the early part of July, and I'd like to be in a particular pair of shorts by then. You see - I used to be thin, never too thin, but thin enough. My 6'2 broad frame, looks best in a 34" waisted pant, and even though I've worn a 31" in the not to distant past - I feel better, and look better when I'm boasting a loose 34. Honestly, I'm pushing the seems of a 38, and a 36 - let alone a 34 doesn't seem in my near future. But, I have to do something - and I'll do what I know works for me.

I'll get back into exercise - running with the dogs, walking with my friends, and doing the beachbody tapes ... before you know it I'll be down 20 pounds and feeling great ... but the trick, the test, is ... STAYING ON THAT TRACK! I have an obvious problem with sabotaging the loss after getting to about 20 pounds gone. Not only is that completely damaging to my psyche, but also to my body. I shouldn't be yo-yo-ing as I do.

So - the goal: 34" shorts by the end of June, loosely worn with a shirt tucked in - and a move toward a healthier life, and a lower number on the scale - somewhere nearer to 200, between 200 - 210.

Care to join me, again?