Friday morning = Crap, Monday evening = Loving it

As I've said in a few blogs I have started a diet recently and I am absolutely loving it.

This is the first time I have ever been on a diet (shock! horror!) and to be honest I had never really wanted to. That's not to say I didn't want to lose weight, but I certainly went about it in the extremely lazy way, I even once just contacted a plastic surgeon about liposuction.....stupid thing about that was that I would only get back to my original weight anyway.

So what encouraged the diet? Well reaching 18 stone 7 was certainly a start, not to mention that some clothes that I bought two years ago when they were baggy started to get a bit tight and I finally had the encouragement from Jodi, my good friend from the country of the Maple Leaf (Canada to those of you who are geographically challenged). I was quite surprised that she was wanting to go on a diet, I personally think she looks like fine, I would never describe her as fat or even overweight, and that made me look at myself and what my body have become.

So anyway, I started it on Friday morning and I've surprised myself with how much I am actually enjoying it. After 72or so hours, I am down to 18 stone 1, I know it's still big compared to a lot of people but I can't even begin to tell you how good it feels. I feel fantastic to be on a diet, eating healthily and getting in some exercise......I can't believe it's taken me 27 years to do this.

I've been eating healthily to the point where I am literally looking at the calorie count of EVERYTHING I am about to eat, and weigh up whether it's worth it....and since I have done this I have just been really concious about everything. Normally before a Lincoln City home game I would go to KFC and buy a large fillet meal with a popcorn chicken....which turns out to be a total of around 1,200 calories......no wonder I put on all this weight. Instead I walked two minutes down the road to a shop and instead bought a ham bagette, which was only 170 calories, and was just as filling.

I calculate that if I continue losing weight at the current rate that I will roughly reach my target weight of 200 pounds by the end of February. That's a bit unrealistic because obviously as I lose weight then the calories I burn in the exercises I do now will go down significantly, but I can be 200 pounds by the end of May then I will delighted.