I have decided that I’m tired of being overweight. I’m tired of being achy all the time.  I’m tired of being tired.  I found the free online diet (lifestyle change really) website called SparkPeople and I’m going to give it a shot.

One of my Daily Fast Break Goals is to journal 1 time a day. So..guess what? You get to hear it. I will probably include it in other posts so as not to bore people to tears about how fat I am *whine whine whine*.

If you’d like to join me over there, feel free. It’s all free (from what I can tell so far) and looks to be pretty good. Even the exercises it’s given me (gasp..did I say the E word??) seem to be not so bad.

Ok..so my goals

Short term:

Drink 8 -8 oz glasses of water a day, go for a walk, and write in a journal

Longer term:

Lose 40 lbs by my birthday  (9/16/07)

consume between 1200 and 1550 calories a day

burn 650 calories a day

Sounds reasonable eh?

In knitting news, I’m nearly 1/2 through the final border on the Flowing River shawl, I finished one Monkey sock and started the second one, I am 3 balls of yarn into a Tempting (from knitty) sweater for myself, and I’m 1/2 done with the foot of my stocking. I’ll see if I can get the camera to work and post some photos later this week.

I had my first weekly weigh in since starting Weight Watchers last week and I’ve lost 4 lbs already. Hopefully I can keep this up. I’d actually like to wear a swimsuit this summer.

I noticed that there are many knit/crochet/spin/weave bloggers that are all on weightloss programs and then I remembered that I had started a blog for us when I had attempted to lose weight last year sometime. I have decided to re-start that blog and if anyone else is interested in joining, feel free to come on by.

The blog is Fiberblogger Weightloss Support and its hosted on blogspot, if you’d like to join, just comment or shoot me an email and I’ll send you an invitation. If you don’t have a blogger blog, you don’t have to start a blog, but you will need a blogger ID.

Happy weight loss and knitting everyone!!

Well, I bit the bullet and signed up for the online Weight Watchers today. It has been bugging me very much about how heavy I am. Trudging around the campus with a heavy book bag isn’t easy either.

I weighed this morning and I was 183. My goal weight is about 130. Weight Watchers thing says I should be 102-123. Sheesh..that would be like corpse thin. No thanks. I’ll see what 130 does for me.

The hardest part of this for me is giving up my Dr. Pepper. *sigh* But it will be worth it in the end. Anyone think I should do before and after pics?? Nah…might break the internet.