Day 3

So good news, the diet has begun.  No joke, no funny excuses, I am really dieting as I type this blog.  I had a grapefruit half and bran cereal for breakfast and a modest lunch.  Sounds pretty good right?  WRONG!  One of my friends just explained that grapefruit is bad for you.  Apparently fruit is now bad.  Thanks for the heads up science.  Who knew, the last time I was dieting fruit was good, but apparently experts had it wrong again. I guess fruits, including grapefruit, are too high in sugar and carbs.  In fact I also found out that carrots are bad for you for the same reason.   There goes my afternoon snack. 

I hate to admit it, but in a world where you can’t eat carrots or grapefruit to be healthy, I was met to be fat.  What am I supposed to eat?  Seriously, someone tell me.  Cereals have too many carbs, fruits have too many sugars and vegetables such as carrots and corn are bad for you too.  After discussing dieting with a bunch of self-proclaimed experts I have decided that on that last BLT I had the food that did me the most damage was the tomato. 

That’s ok, I will push on.  While my zip lock baggie of baby carrots that is sitting on my desk just waiting to be devoured at 3:00 p.m. (that’s exactly 1 hour 16 minutes and 41 seconds from now) are nothing but poison, I am guessing it is better than the 12 oz. can of Dr. Pepper and a little Debby Snack Pack that was in its place last week.  (12 oz. can, that is so cute, I have not had anything smaller than a 32 ouncer since I was 9.)

So as I am now officially dieting I have been asked to disclose my weight.  As much as I hate to do this, it is kind of the point of the blog, you know to keep track as I go down.  Now the real problem with the full disclosure is that people who did not know I was overweight are going to be shocked.  There are some people out there who have no idea I am over weight.  Granted they are all strangers, the blind and the very very …very unobservant, but some don’t know.  Well the time has come to roll out of the Baskin Robins closet and tell the truth, and as they say… the truth shall set you free.  According to my digital scale, as of 8:14 p.m. on Tuesday January 3, 2012 I weighed in at 260.0 lbs.  (In my own defense the digital scale kept jumping back and forth from 259.8 so as you can see I clearly and not as heavy as it sounds, I did however decide that 260 would seem like I have lost more weight when the year is over so that is the starting point.)  So that’s it, the official weight is 260.0.  Wish me luck, I really need it.  Darn unhealthy fruits and vegetables. 

Well I better sign off for now, I will chat with you all tomorrow when I am a solid 259.8 and not just teetering around it.  Until then, those poisonous carrots are not going to eat themselves.   Later.