Week 0 – Before the blog

One weekend a while ago we went to visit some friends on the farm. I have always had weight loss as a low level concern.. kind of in the back of my mind. Over this weekend I lost it.. gnoshed on chips and pasta just totally blew it. Too much carbs, too much salt. On Monday, after this visit I weighed myself. 318. I mean whoa. That was part of my decision to just deal with it.

After that eye-opening bit on the scale I started casting about to figure out what I needed to do and how I needed to do it.

It’s taken me 38 years to get to where I am.. and from past experience I KNOW the “fix” isn’t going to be fast.. I just need to do it.. and stick with it.

The sticking with it part is the hardest.

Luckily after about a week of casting about I stumbled on “Clean Eating” and started incorporating some of those ideals into my food intake.

Now that 318 number.. I’m fairly certain a lot of that was water weight.. and that I was retaining water from all the salt I’d had over the weekend. Especially considering I dropped to 310 by the next week.. but still.. I kind of want credit (if only a bit) for the 8 lbs I lost in “Week 0”.