Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The first day

OK, so here I am, 55, 235 lbs,  and a physical wreck.  Made even more aware day by day of the departure of youth by FACEBOOK and the never ending stream of friend requests from HIGH SCHOOL days, no wait, GRADE SCHOOL.  Nothing brings it home more than seeing the faces of your friends from 2nd grade....they look like my GRANDFATHER, for heavens sake! (sorry Gus, but cant believe that guy staring back at me from the friendrequest is actually YOU, the last time I saw you, you had hair and freckles!)

So OK, reality aside, what are you going to DO about it, what are you willing, able to do about it.  After a brief moment of lapband insanity, and the sobering reality of the 20K price tag, (it occured to me you would have to be CRAZY to let someone cut you open to staple your stomach, thereby admitting once and for all you are powerless over your obsession for food...crazy or desperate...dont get me wrong I am sure it is a viable solution for some people)  But what are you willing to do...me what am I willing to do. 

So lets look at what I have already done...Conscious Combining, WeightWatchers, OA, Prism, Grapefruit diet, Atkins, fasting, taking a trip, not taking a trip...I could go on.  Not that these methods are fruitless, they all worked for a while, but absent the requisite motivation, the pounds piled back on! 

So why raw, and why now.  MORE TOMORROW!