I have been a dieter all of my life. I started out as a chubby toddler, progressed into a fat little girl and ended up as an obese teen-ager. My mother put me on my first diet at age 7. I can still remember it and how much I hated it. It was the hard-boiled egg diet and was probably the precurser to the Atkins Diet because it basically consisted of hard-boiled eggs for breakfast and lunch and steak and a salad for dinner. I was so sick of hard-boiled eggs by the time I finished it!
I finally did lose weight as an older teen-ager. I still considered myself fat, but at least I was socially acceptable and dated a lot during those years. I don't remember how I did it. Probably I cut out the junk food and started eating healthy and getting more active. But as soon as my first romance hit some bumps and I went away to college where I had the freedom to eat whatever I wanted, I packed on the pounds. I went from being moderately overweight to seriously obese in a few short years. I have been searching for the answer to losing and keeping weight off ever since.
This time, I have a two-year goal in mind. I am going to work with a group of women who will all be working on weight loss but who have added the buddy system and prayer and meditation to the mix. We are going to work on it for a year and if we are successful, we will write a book the following year, outlining how we did it. In the meantime, I will be publishing this blog as a sort of diary to chronicle the journey.
Whenever I start a new leg of my journey, I am always hopeful. But it is getting harder to believe that I can do it. I don't really have a choice, though. Something's got to change or this weight will kill me!
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