What has happened up until this point...

It is January 4th and I have made some resolutions that I am going to use this blog to keep. This project is to track the changes that are taking place both emotionally and physically as I shed my excess weight and with it other baggage I am carrying around.

My goals are shallow ones. I want to wear beautiful clothing. I want to feel sexy naked. I want men to watch my ass as I walk by. I want my boyfriend to be jealous when other men look at me, and I want to know I could make him jealous at any time. Not because I want to make him jealous, but just to know I could if I wanted to.

Here are the cold hard facts:

I weigh around 220. I'm not quite sure of the exact weight due to a crappy scale purchased at Target which gives different weights every time I step on it and then I stepped on a scale at a Weight Watchers meeting in November which said I was 224, 10 pounds heavier than the scale at home. I will attend another Weight Watcher's meeting this weekend (to use their scale) and when I have their weight I will post it and use that as the most current weight and work from their.
I am 5'2" which is pretty tiny if I wasn't hauling around an extra 100 lbs. Apparently my height to weight ratio should be between 100lbs. and 144 lbs, with a target of 125 lbs. I don't remember when I weighed so little.

I am fairly sedentary. Since January 1st I have started riding my bike to work (about 2 miles each way = 4 miles a day 4 days a week) and starting January 11th I will be taking both Lap Swimming and Aquatic Aerobics at Laney Community College here in Oakland. That will be 4 hours of swimming a week in addition to the 16 miles of bike riding a week.

I will be combining this exercise with a low carb/high protein diet. I know low carb is out of favor with trendy dieters, but not only does my body prefer the higher protein method, but my Holistic Chiropractor/Boss has said this is the method of eating most suited for my metabolic type (more on this in a later post).

The plan is to post my progress, photos, plans, tricks, recipes, failures, success's and so on everyday until I have reached my goal. Since I am at work now I don't have a photo to post, but I will have one when I get home and post it then. I have yet to decided if I should bare all and take my photo naked (gah!!!) or clothed. Let's see how brave I am later today.

From this point on we are making a Little Tart.