Day Three

I'd prefer posting in the evening, to kind of sum up the day, but I'll be at a friend's house tonight, making it harder.

This also brings up issues all fat people have when starting diets and exercising: how to fit it around their schedules and the habits of others. We usually eat pretty terribly when we get friends together, pizza, wings, fast food, so what to do.

Well you can eat less during the day before the dinner, and make sure to eat less of the crappy food if its there, or you can try to influence what the group eats as best you can. I know this is common sense to thin people or people with good habits, but for many of us, we need to remind ourselves that even 2 slices of pizza is pushing it. I walked my dog earlier, to get my exercise for the day in, so that's taken care of.

One big thing to cut out while being with friends is soda, that feel good burn of carbonation and sugar is so easy to drink, and so easy to add weight with.

These little road bumps, eating with friends, "no time" to exercise, are some of the first obstacles that generally derail any attempts to lose weight. We rationalize ourselves out of them, and then decide "see we can't make it work" and stop.

Current Weight: 297 pounds (early afternoon, normal clothes, no shoes) will probably be 298 by the late evening.