Well here I go again, my umpteenth try at doing low carb and getting my life back. I have made it through the 1st 25 days of this year and stuck to plan, they say 20 days to make a habit so maybe I can last the rest of the 340 days left of the year and get this thing going in the right direction!

I had some success with this a few years back and lost 70 pounds but I let things slide gradually back to the point where I was just eating whatever I wanted again and gained it all back plus some. I gave a few more half hearted attempts but have not been as successful. I am to a point in my life where I feel it is truly a “ do or die” situation. I don’t want weight loss surgery though I truly support anyone who makes that decision, I have some friends who have had good success, my hubby and I just were not feeling it was right for me after we attended the seminar together.

I have a bad habit of starting out all gung-ho and then sliding away, I have watched many come and go to this woe and do the same thing. I don’t want to be that person anymore. I am 37 years old, morbidly obese and I feel probably 20 years older than that with my constant aches and pains and difficulty in moving around. I want to be around to see my girls as mothers and to enjoy my grandchildren when that time comes. So, in comes the blog. If I remain a lurker with a little post here and there it makes it easy for me to slip away, I want to make myself accountable here and get through my thick skull that this is it for me, at my age with my health if I don’t do something now I am throwing a good deal of my life away.

For the plan…I did induction for 2 weeks, pretty clean except the water, I truly struggle with that. I love my diet dew and cherrycoke zero. I drive about 75 miles round trip each day to work and add to that I am a night owl who tends to stay up way too late..I won’t be giving up my quick caffeine fixes soon so I need to work with that. I am doing low carb as I can but am not religiously counting carbs, I try to stick to simple things that I know are good like meat and eggs but also throwing in enough recipes and things so I don’t get too bored. I try to plug things into fit day if something looks iffy. Yesterday was around 30 carbs and today close to the same and that’s more than I like to do but I know this needs to be forever so I’m trying to find some balance I can live with on a permanent basis.

I weigh “something” over 400. I won’t be shy about posting the number once I know it but my 440 scale won’t weigh me now so I know the number has gotten ugly and why I feel I am at a “do or die” place in my life. I joined a challenge on popular low-carb forum that I frequent for losing 100 pounds this year, I will do that or die tryin! Enough of spilling my guts for this first time out, I will ramble more later and try to post my menus as I go, please feel free to critique/suggest or even flat out telling me if I’m doing something stupid!! I need all the help I can get and I’m a blunt type of person just tell me straight out if I’m being a moron, I can take it.