One important motivator for me when I started my diet back in September was that I publicized what I was doing to all my family and friends. ALL of them. I posted it on Facebook and everything. I basically said, “I’m fat and I’m going to do something about it.” (Friends can view that Facebook [...]
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What’s the mindset?
Successful dieting, I think, requires the right mindset and attitude. I have started several diets before, none of them successfully. There’s a saying: “Diets don’t fail. We abandon them.” I started this diet in September, when I weighed 251 pounds, and I was determined to do it differently than before. The mindset really feels different [...]
So, what’s the plan?
There are a lot of diet plans out there, but I decided to choose the simplest one: count calories and get some exercise to burn extra calories. The reason I chose this method is simple: counting calories always works. You can count carbs or fat or whatever else, and this may give good results because [...]
240 on the dot, and continuing the commitment…
I weighed in this morning at 240 exactly – right on the nose. I was hoping to drop under today, but I will take this. 240 is something of a benchmark for me. When I hit 240 about 2 years ago, I started to take my weight seriously. Before that, I was aware of my [...]
