I’m not obsolete yet!

I don’t post much on this blog any more, I’m just too busy with life and projects and other blogs to keep up with it.. Its sort of sad in a way..

Anyway, I’ve decided that its time to drop some of this weight.. Its been a long time coming, and a long time putting it on.. I’m hoping that it won’t be a terribly long time coming off.. I started adding the weight nearly 20 years ago after a pretty horrendous car accident.. I was rear ended in an intersection and spent about six months rehabbing my back enough to where I could just go to work.. By then I had already started adding the weight..

Then I spent 5 more years sore, in pain, and managing a pizza place where pizza was the meal 3 or 4 times a day.. More pounds were added.. Then I went from standing all day to sitting all day doing programming and IT work and drinking Mt Dew.. Oh Mt. Dew.. How I love you so.. Please don’t hate me for leaving you..

So here I am at 43 and looking at how large I have gotten and deciding that it may finally be time to get serious about it..

I’ve been slowly getting ready for the new diet over the last couple weeks.. Cutting back on the Mt Dew, trying to eat without snacking, and generally getting all of the junk food out of the house so my weak will isn’t tempted by easy access to chips and salsa.. Tomorrow I start the Joy to Life program..

Joy to Life is a high protein diet that Adkins was based on.. After watching my chiropractor lose weight over the last 4 months with what looked like ease, I’ve decided to follow him in to the program.. And it is a program.. You meet with a nutritionist, you do buy some of their foods, but you also add quite a bit of your own food to the program.. The program runs in phases with phase 1 being the hardest, at least in my mind.. Its the most strict and has the least variety, but supposedly it also offers the fastest weight loss while maintaining muscle mass..

You run on phase 1 until you lose 80% of your target weight and then switch to phase 2.. This helps avoid a shock to your system and lets you slowly adjust to eating more whole foods and eating better.. “If” things go well, and I can keep from cheating the diet, I hope to get through phase 1 in about 20 weeks or so.. Then I’ll get in to phase 2 and we’ll see how things go..