First Day

Okay, so here's the deal. I'm 24 and I want to lose 50 pounds. When I got on the scale yesterday I rang in at 248. Back in HS I was around 230 or so and then my senior year, I got hooked up with the cross country team at my DOD high school and turned into an exercise junkie. Over the course of a year I dropped 50 pounds, went from a 38/40 pant to a 34, went from XL shirts to mediums and larges and generally felt great.

Unfortunately I didn't really realize all the changes. I knew I was skinnier, but I still sorta saw myself a a big ol' fat guy. Then one day my freshman year of college, my GF broke up with me and it all seemed to slip away. All I wanted to do was eat crappy food, sit in my room and generally not continue my healthy life style. And I'm not 100% sure I've ever gotten out of that.

Over the past 6 years, I've bounced around from 255 down to about 232, but haven't been able to make a diet and exercise plan stick. Now I'm fed up with how I look and how I feel and I want to affect some changes in my life. Today is day 1 for the new me and this is going to be a tool to help.

My goal for now is to run 20-25k a week and change my eating habits. I want to cut out bad food, bad snacking but generally still eat like a regular person.

So today I did my first grocery shopping apart from my wife. This is the list:

• Asparagus
• Pepper & tomato
• Veggie burgers
• Turkey dogs
• Some lean 4 oz. pork tenderloins
• Multigrain tortilla chips and salsa
  
• Low-fat yogurt
• Some Lean Pockets and Lean Cuisine personal pizzas
• Organic risotto
  
• Mocha Madness trail mix
• Berries & Cherries Dorset Cereal (http://www.dorsetcereals.co.uk/mueslicerealsshop/)
• Olivio olive oil based margarin
• 12 Grain bread
• Amy's organic Tomato Bisque soup
  

Looking at that, I think there need to be more veggies and fruit next round, but at least I do get those for free at the office.

And here's how the food went today

Breakfast - Two granola bars and a small cup of black coffee with sugar at the office
Morning Snack - Small bowl of grapes and a banana
Lunch - Small salad of spinach, broccoli and cucumbers with light ranch, 1/2 roast chicken and cheddar pannini
Afternoon Snack (4 PM) - Second half of sandwich
Evening Snack (8:15 PM) - Small hand-full of trail mix
Dinner (9:15 PM) - 4 oz prok tenderloin, bowl of tomato bisque and 2 slices of bread
Dessert - Low-fat fudge-cicle

I also wanted to run a 5k tonight, but getting home late made me run into a thunder and lightening storm, so I did 30 minutes of combined weights and ab exercises.

So let's see how this goes. I'll post at least once a day with my meals, exercise, weight and thoughts and hopefully this will help me and maybe help some other people who are in the same boat as well.

Run Fat Boy, Run