First Day Posting...

This is my first go as a "blogger"...holy cow, that just sounds funny to me. Anyway, I have started this as another way to make myself accountable for many things, mainly what I eat. I began going to Weight Watchers in June 2008. At the time, my diet consisted of a Vanilla Coke for breakfast, Coke and a burger or whatever else I could find for lunch, and something fried for supper, served with a Coke -- of course! Generally, I would buy two 20 oz. Vanilla Cokes in the morning and drink them throughout the day. Water was nonexistent in my diet unless it was of the carbonated variety. At my first weigh in, I was 180.6. For WW purposes, this weigh in didn't count because I wasn't a paying member, but it was enough for me to bring my cash in the next week!! After the complementary weigh in, I quit coke all together, replacing it with real water. The first week I lost 6 pounds. I generally lost a pound per week until October. Then I had surgery, so diet was the last thing on my mind. Six weeks after the surgery though, I'm still trucking through. To date, I've lost 28-30 pounds since my initial weigh in. My original goal weight was was 135, but after seeing what I look like at 152, I've changed my goal weight to 140 -- I don't want to be super skinny....just able to bend over and tie my shoes without losing my breath!

Since the holidays have started, my attention to detail in what I've been eating has been lax. For example, today's menu:

Breakfast: cup of coffee
Lunch: 2 fried chicken strips (like Raisin' Cane's, but a different chain) and 20 oz. Coke
Snack: Starbuck's carmel macchiato (small)
Supper: Linguine w/ Clam Sauce [YUM-O] and two slices of bread
Late Night: cup of coffee

Wake up weight: 150.2

As the title of the blog says: Starting over every day....that's how I've been able to handle the good and bad days since I began Weight Watchers. A good tomorrow should not be based on today's success and today's failures do not guarantee a bad tomorrow. Start over every day.