My new motto...Nothing tastes as good as thin feels

Finally, I have joined the wonderful world of blogging.  I decided to finally do it to help hold myself accountable for my DIET.  The terrible ugly dreaded word no one wants to do.  To help you understand here is a short history if my dieting. 

 I have ALWAYS been overweight.  As long as I can remember I have known I was overweight.  But it was not until after I got married that I got REALLY overweight...okay I will just say it

 FAT.  YUCK!  I hate that.  

For years I have made excuses for my weight...stress, PCOS, too busy at work and then most recently pregnant.  But now I am out of excuses.  I am no longer working.  I am no longer pregnant.  I am no longer able to make reasons for my being overweight.  So here we go. 

I have started Slim Fast.  I chose Slim Fast for numerous reasons.  I had tried EVERY diet ever made.  I was successful with weight watchers twice but it is fairly expensive and unless your family is willing to do it with you it is difficult, at least for me.  I found it impossible to watch Dave stuff his face with ice cream while I sat on the other end of the couch eating my boring delicious apple and resenting him for being able to eat whatever he wanted.  But now being thirty Dave's metabolism is slowing down and he too wants needs to drop a few pounds.  So together we are drinking a shake for breakfast and then either having a shake or a meal bar for lunch.  Then I do my best to cook a deliciously healthy meal for dinner that even my almost three year old will eat along with my very picky twelve year old brother.  I weigh in every Monday morning to hold myself accountable.  Which may I say was the worst day of the week to choose.  I find it hardest to follow the diet on the weekends and I just want a few days into the week to work off those chips and salsa I ate over the weekend.  But I am not going to change the weigh in day because it is helping hold me accountable on Saturday and Sunday knowing I have to weigh in on Monday.  I do of course strip off most my clothes and make sure to pee before I weigh myself.  Every ounce counts folks.  I am entering the fourth week of this plan and I am excited to say I am down 8.5lbs.  My goal is my 30th birthday coming up in August.  I won't share my goal weight just yet but I would love to be the same weight as when I met Dave.  Let me remind you I was 16 at the time so while that may seem crazy I think know I can do it.