Day 1 of My Journey to Weightloss

So I decided to try Medifast to lose this pesky 60 lbs that refuses to let go of my body! I have tried EVERYTHING!! Diet and exercise, hydroxycut (and many other diet pills), nutrisystem, somer-sizing, atkins, master cleanse, and NOTHING has worked. I cut my food intake in half and worked out 6 days a week, 2 hours a day for 8 months and lost 10 lbs....SUPER frustrating. So you get the picture, nothing worked. One day I was signed onto my facebook account and saw that a friend of mine had these awesome before and after pictures. She talked about losing 26 lbs in 6 weeks. I immediately messaged her to find out her secret. She messaged me back telling me all about her and her husbands experience on medifast...her husband lost 70 LBS! I was so excited that I talked to her health coach and within a few days I ordered the food. I thought to myself, this is going to be the diet that works, I know it, it's worked for them, it will work for me.

I got the food and didn't start the diet for about two weeks. My husband is in the Army and he was spending his last 2 wks with me before he was being stationed in Texas, so of course I didn't want to miss out on all the good food we would be eating as every night was a date night for us. So I decided to wait until the Monday after he left. I started the day after the Superbowl. Turns out I didn't follow it the way I was supposed to that first week. On the plan you are supposed to eat 5 medifast meals and 1 lean & green meal....I misunderstood and thought I was only allowed 5 meals a day, being 4 medifast meals and 1 lean& green. I was starving all that week and went out with one of my closest friends for a salad. During that meal I cheated. The next week I followed the diet to the T and realized I wouldn't be able to follow the diet on the weekend because I was going to see my brother in a Colorado prison and I wouldn't be able to eat my medifast meals every 2-3 hrs. SO, I just didn't do it at all and decided to eat healthy instead. This past week I was sick and went back off of medifast because I couldn't eat very well and as soon as I felt better I took TOTAL advantage. I ate pizza, tacos, chips, cake, anything I could get my hands on...it was like the devil had a hold on me and my path of destruction was FOOD!

You may wonder why I'm telling you all this...well, I need to know that I am accountable to someone/something...no one may ever really even read this but I know that people may, and I want to document my progress. I am hoping this helps me stay committed to losing this weight that has kept me down for so long. I gave you some background information and where I left off leaves me at today...March 1, 2010. I am starting fresh, new, like this is my very first day trying medifast and I have a renewed committment to ME, that I CAN do this, I CAN lose this weight, I CAN be healthy again and I CAN look in a mirror and be proud of what I see. For the past three weeks I have STRUGGLED but I am putting that behind me and starting fresh. So, join me on my journey to weightloss.