Day 1 of the diet : 259 pounds and a set of broken scales

I'll start this off by saying I weighed 18 stone 7 at the start of this diet.....or 259 pounds for those who live in countries that don't use the "stone" system. My target is to get down to 200 pounds by my birthday (September 12th), which I think is doable, that gives me a target of about 2 pounds a week....give or take. Given that I am hoping to move to either America or Canada this year to start a new life, I'd like to start that new life without looking like Fat Bastard from Austin Powers. That was only intended as a joke by the way, despite weighing so much, I generally don't look like I weigh that much.....at least that's what everyone tells me.

The annoying thing is that I don't actually generally eat that much, the problem is that I work in an office and unlike other jobs I've had, you're just sat there all day rather than moving around. I worked at McDonalds whilst I was going through college and you got free food and then got to eat what was left at the end of the shift, and I didn't put on a bit of weight because I was constantly moving.

It seems almost ridiculous that I weigh this much without actually eating that much.

Maybe I shouldn't have retired from playing football afterall.........

But anyway.....day one of the diet is over with and I think I've done a reasonable job.

The app on my phone gave me a target of eating no more than 1,700 calories and I only consumed 1,250ish, a good start. I say ish because I also had a home-made ham sandwich but that wasn't on the list of products that were on the app, so we'll say 1,350 just for argument's sake.

I was quite pleased with myself and decided to weigh myself already just to see if I had already lost some weight......a bit optimistic I know. That's when I realised I might need more than just an app to help me accurately measure my weight.

I got on my scales, waited.......17 stone 7.......that can't be right????!?! Don't get me wrong, I was pleased to have apparantly lost that much weight in just 24 hours......but I did find it a little unlikely. I weighed myself again and was back up to 18 stone 7.....a sad look went over my face.

I left it about an hour and went back.......18 stone 7.5......so despite not eating anythin in between, I somehow put on half a pound......so I gave it another go straight away......18 stone 8.....what the hell is going on??? Third time lucky......18 stone 5.5.

Now, I would have been happy with that after one day....but the problem is that I can't trust a set of scales that gives five different weights within such a short amount of time.

It sort of makes it all a bit pointless if I can't get accurate readings.

Don't worry, I'm not going to post every day about how I've been eating natural yoghurts and oranges.