Charting my Weight Decline

As part of the sevice that provides the nifty little widget on the side showing my weight loss, it also provides a chart showing how I'm doing over time:

My Weight Chart:


I've put it at the bottom of every page so the world can e see my success/failure.

Eating Out

We ate out a couple of times over the weekend. I thought I'd want to pig out but I didn't find myself wanting to order all those things I know are bad for me (but taste so good).

We had dinner on Saturday at a Mexican. I only ate half mine because I was full - a good sign!

Sunday lunch at Sbarros (living large!) with a slice of stuffed Pizza. Again, I didn't eat it all but it filled me up more than dinner did.

I didn't feel like my snack after either meal!

The first test - did I lose any weight?

First weigh in after starting the diet. I even remembered my glasses this time...

I lost four pounds!

1. That's one pound per day - that means I'll hit my target weight in 19 days!
2. That probably isn't a good thing (and it'll never happen)
3. I feel absolutely no different, except being able to pull my belt in a notch, which I could do before by breathing in.

I know that my weight will vary and I'm sure I'll stay flat, or even go up sometimes, but it's nice to have shown some progress so early.

I also started blogging at the NutriSystem site - the comments there are very encouraging.

Starting Weight

Friday night - the big weigh in.

I stand on the scales.

Oh no!

I forgot to put my glasses on!

After I go and get my glasses, I discover I'm 184lbs.

My target weight is 165 -- so 19 lbs to go!

Bartering for Food

My wife's package has now arrived and we discovered that her "free week" was pre-selected for her so there are things she may not like.

I, of course, offered to swap some of mine but I have to be careful - I don't want to end up with a month's worth of black bean soup. It wouldn't be good for me, and it certainly wouldn't be good for anyone who shares an enclosed space with me!

It looks like it will work out fine.

It turns out that her menu plan (because she's a woman I guess) is radically different from mine. That means we will be eating different things at each meal (in terms of vegetables etc.) which will make it harder to plan things. i have to say, this system isn't nearly as simple and convenient as I thought it would be.

But I'll give it a shot!

How did we chose which system to use?

I wish I could say we used an exhaustive analysis of the available weight loss programs and can to a logical decision after hours and hours of deliberation.

But I can't.

It came down to these points:

• It had to be a company we could trust - i.e. well known, high profile
• We didn't want to decide and debate what was for dinner - we could each chose something out of the closet
• Cut down on shopping
• The food looked as though we would eat it
  
• Cost was obviously an issue
• We thought it could work

The criteria were weighted differently in my mind versus my wife's - she was more worried that she wouldn't like the food, while I wanted convenience as an example.

We looked an the main one's and decided on Nutrisystem (we also looked at WeightWatchers, Jenny Craig and Diet2go).

Nutrisystem looked the simplest, they had an option where my wife could choose the food, and another where they would choose for me - we were both happy!

They had a promotion for where there was a week free and a discount for auto delivery. When my wife rang to order her food she discovered another promotion where if a same member of the household ordered at the same time there would get an extra week free and 10% off - which seemed like a good deal!

Welcome to Waist Disposal

I've started this blog to record my success at losing weight in this new year. I hope to keep it updated regularly, but I can be a bit variable with my blogging so we shall see. I hope you enjoy it, and I REALLY hope it will encourage people to lose weight too (if they feel they need to of course!).