Starting something new

After receiving a question from a friend via email today, I made the decision to start up this blog. The intention here is to chronicle my weight loss in one place that isn't cluttered by other things in my livejournal and to be able to keep things in one place for later use.

The title of the blog describes what my goal is. In July of 2009, I find the final decision to lose the weight that I'd been carrying around for years, totalling in the range of 200 pounds. My intention is to drop half my body weight in two years, putting me losing weight at a rate of approximately 8.3 pounds a month (or just shy of 2 pounds a week).

I have a young son and a daughter on the way. The way I was a year ago, I didn't have the energy I wanted to be able to play with my kids and was on a fast track to developing some sort of health ailment that would likely have had me dead before either of them reached adulthood. That was something that simply wasn't acceptable to me and finally pushed me into doing something about it.

At the same time, I'd seen the success two friends of mine had had using Weight Watchers. As this was something I hadn't tried before, I wanted to give it a go to see how it worked for me. Going forward here, I will likely have commentary on Weight Watchers and it may come off as a commercial for the program at times, but this is simply because, for me, it works. Since July of last year, I have lost 62.2 pounds (approximately since I may have been above 400 at start). This has all been done primarily just on Weight Watcher with very little added physical activity.

If you're reading this, I hope you find something here that will peak your interest, inspire you to do something similiar, or just to stick around to read now and again. At the end of the day, this is just my way of chronicling this journey and keeping myself honest during the journey.