Okay today is the start of what I hope will be not only a long diet but a change of lifestyle as well. I am going to be writing this as if  hundreds of people are reading my blog, when in reality I will probably be the only one, at least for quite a while. I am motivated though mainly by the pictures on my blog and the pictures from my wedding. What bothered me the most about them was not that I looked so bad (heavy) but that Meryl said I looked good. Apparently, I have even looked worse so I can't even accept myself as I am.

This morning, January 25, 2016 I weighed 234.8 and at 5'8" that translates into a BMI of over 35, with over 30 being considered obese, so I have a long way to go. To maintain my weight of 235 I would have to eat about 2300 calories a day but since I don't want to weigh that much to lose 1 pound of fat I would have to go 3500 calories under my weight. That translates to 500 calories a day below my maintenance level or approximately 1,750 a day so that's what I am stuck with.

At any rate to help me with my diet Mandy & Matt suggested an app called MyFitnessPal which already is not working well but I am using it anyway. In the beginning I am going to follow their suggestions because clearly my own suggestions don't work. I am going to try with one suggestion a day because at my age, it's better to process one thing right than write down a 100 items and not do any of them at all.

Well their first suggestion is to track everything I eat through the app, the good, the bad and the really bad and that's what I am going to do. Wish me luck to all those that are not out there.