And It Begins!!!!

I recently saw the movie Julie and Julia where the blogger, Julie, blogs about cooking a different Julia Childs' recipe for every day in one given year. So I thought, I would start my own journey, blogging about my desire to lose weight in 2010.

I'm not kidding myself any longer thinking I can go on a diet and stick to it. Like millions of other people, I have tried them all......Weight Watchers, Diet Center, Jennie Craig, Atkins......and all the rest. I've lost weight but I can never stay on them too long because I get bored. And then I watch The Biggest Loser and they don't just lose weight.....they transform their entire bodies. When I've been on these diets, I might lose thirty pounds and, while I look better, it's certainly not a transformation.

So then I started thinking about how I could be successful at this and I thought I should not try any one diet. What I am going to try to do is lose a pound a week. Any other time I've been on a diet, if I don't lose at least three pounds in a given week, I feel like I've had an unsuccessful week and that just leads to me getting down on myself and, consequently, cheating. But a goal of one pound a week is very doable. And the key here will be not to weigh myself everyday. I will only weight myself once a week and post the results here.

Today is January 1st and it's a Friday. I'm not stupid enough to think I could ever start a diet on a Friday so this official quest to lose weight will begin on Monday, January 4th. Right away these sound like the words of any true dieter.