Weight Watchers, week one

Gonna talk diet here, so fair warning:

1) I get to eat a lot points. Tipping the scales at 241.2 lbs, being a MALE, and being my age means I have a generous point count. (if you don't know points, well.. maybe I'll try to explain later).

2) My fridge is FULL. Tons of green veggies, lean meats and other things that are decidedly not worthy of the title "finding the fat" cause there sure ain't much!

• 99% Lean Ground Turkey
  
• Chicken breasts
  
• Lite Turkey Breast (dietz and watson, this stuff ROCKS!)
• Lean canadian bacon
  
• Celery
  
• Cucumber
  
• Red peppers
  
• Lettuce
• Button Mushrooms
• HERBS (all have no points

3) Going to work I feel like I need to bring a cart! My lunch consists of

• 3 containers of leftovers (turkey burger, salad, and a bit of chicken and pasta)
• 2 diet cokes 
• a giant bag of celery sticks, cherry tomatoes, red pepper strips and cucumber slices
• Tea (my morning vice of late, chrysanthemum tea from the Asian Market
• SNACKS (this is maybe only once a week), a box of crackers, some beef jerkey, and a box of single serving microwave popcorn.

Otherwise, I have found that if I am good about my breakfast, lunch and snacks, I can make TASTY things for dinner. Like sauteed halibut filets with white rice and asparagus, or chicken and pasta, or a steak (small steak at least) and potatoes (so they have to be steamed). 

So maybe this diet thing isn't that bad, we'll see. Now for the next frontier. EXERCISE!!!!

Thanks

-J

Day one final report

Seems not so bad. Let's see how restaurants and happy hours go.. 

Thanks

- J

Update.. I just skipped my first meeting.. or more to the point, I couldn't really find it. I will plan another, but sheesh, a little signage wouldn't hurt, now would it? 

- J

Eating is like the economy.

At least for me. I guess I should have known it was coming, and deep down, I did. I went in for my annual check up, and the scale said....

 248 lbs 

This is not okay, this is much worse than I ever expected it would be. This needs to be remedied. So, yesterday I signed up for Weight Watchers (online and in person meetings). My first meeting is today at noon. 

I'm nervous. I'm FAT. Really fat.

Ah well, so a new chapter has to begin here at Finding the Fat. For at least a while now, my focus is going to be as follows:

1) Dieting strategies

2) Healthy Recipes (I plan to include point counts per serving)

3) Exercise plans / execution

So, perhaps we can start finding the muscles underneath this nice layer of belly fat, eh? 

HUGS

-J