7 months old!

11 Pounds!!!!

That's right! I have officially lost 11 pounds in one week. I have been worn out all week due to a lack of calories but am excited to have made it this far!

Here's to another succesful week!

Mid Week Update

Here is a quick update on my weight loss mission. I should have a big number to post on Sunday's weight loss total. I have cheated a little this week and checked my weight a couple of times. Luckily it was good enough news to stay motivated and not head for the buffet to smother my sorrow. I have been eating a lot of Weight Watcher's Smart Ones and Lean Cuisine's this week. They really aren't that bad. Some are better than others but for the most part they are somewhat filling. Today I ate the Spicy Szechuan Shrimp and Vegetables from Lean Cuisine. It was pretty good. A bit garlicy (if that is a word) but good. One big change that I have implemented this time around is concentrating on lowering my sodium. This is another big challenge for me because "My name is David Baker and I am a salt addict." I love salt! I love it on everything! The food that I cook is extra salty. My heaping plates at the Chinese buffet are given an extra bath of soy sauce just to make sure that I cannot taste anything else but SALT. I read on the Internet that one ounce of salt will cause your body to retain SIX POUNDS of fluid. SIX POUNDS!!!!! I am not sure how accurate that is but either way it can't be good for you. Table salt is absorbed almost instantaneously into your cells, which makes it hard to flush. That was enough of an intervention to get me to rehab. I say all this because I am pretty sure that most of the weight that I have lost this week is fluid but it is still weight. I am still happy and still motivated.

For those of you who are wondering what I have been eating this week and how long on plan on eating out of a plastic dish, here is your answer. As I said before, I have been eating lots of low calorie meals. I start the morning off with a couple of Lean Pockets. I have tried the Sausage, Egg and Cheese and the Bacon, Egg and Cheese. Both are pretty good and curb my morning fix. At 140 calories a pop, I take in 280 calories at breakfast. For lunch I will eat another low calorie meal. Usually a Healthy Choice Cafe Steamer that usually range from 300 to 350 calories. I have tried the Cajun Chicken and Shrimp, Chicken Marsal and the 5-Spice Beef. All of them were pretty good but I am still looking for a go-to meal from those. For dinner (or Supper for those where I come from) I will eat another low calorie meal usually around 240 calories. Now comes the good part. If you have not tried the desserts that Weight Watchers makes you are missing out. Do yourself a favor and go to the grocery store and pick up the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Sunday. It is amazing and only has around 200 to 220 calories. The Key Lime Pie is wonderful as well. So my total calorie intake for the day is around 1,100 calories.

I can't say how long I will continue to eat these low calorie meals. They are very fast and easy which makes it very hard to try something else but this diet is about making life changes. I have to start learning how to cook healthy and portion control. It's kind of like riding a bike with training wheels, I am not ready to take them off and fall just yet. I want to get a good feel of the pedals before I try to conquer the Tour de France.

See you on Sunday!

Turning Over a New Leaf

For most of my life I have fought an addiction that many others fight on a daily basis...food. Food has become my heroin. I crave it, I become angry without it, I hate myself for abusing it, I need help but refuse to admit I have a problem, and worst of all I am slowly becoming another person (or two).



I have decided that it is time to change the way I live. I am tired of looking like Jabba the Hut and even more tired of feeling depressed. I have made the decision to DIET! Trust me, this is not a new concept to me. Like most overweight people, I have tried every diet known to man. From The Atkins Diet to Body for Life I have tried them all. I have lost and gained more weight than I care to know. Don't get me wrong, these diets really do work if you can continue to live your life that way. Diets are about limiting and changing one of the most important things in your life...eating. No diet will keep excess weight off of you for the remainder of your life unless you make some permanent changes to your eating habits.



I have taken every diet pill known to man and none of them provide the results we fat people are looking for. We are looking for instant weight loss and the ability to eat whatever we want. We all have friends or relatives that can eat whatever they want and never gain a pound. They can walk from the front porch to the mailbox and lose 8 pounds! Others, like me, can eat a Circus Peanut and jiggle for weeks. I told Jamie just yesterday that there are a lot of things I would give up to be like one of those people. But as the old saying goes, I can "wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up the fastest." It is time to suck it up and do it!



The diet I have chosen is one of the oldest diets around but one that I feel is the most effective and the most forgiving. I have chosen the Low Calorie Diet. Most doctors will tell you that a little exercise and a low calorie diet will knock those unwanted pounds right off of you. I think they are right. The Low Calorie Diet is not new to me. I have done this before and lost a significant amount of weight. Of course, I gained it back, and then some, but that was due to my unwillingness to make the proper life changes needed to become a slim and healthy person. The concept behind this diet is very simple. Find out what your daily max is on calories and don't go over that. If you do, do some sort of exercise to burn off that excess amount. You have to burn more than you take in. Pretty simple huh? You can buy Weight Watchers and Healthy Choice meals at the grocery store that tell you exactly how many calories are in each meal. Keep track of how many you consume. For example, if you get a craving for a Double Quarter Pounder at Mickey D's go ahead and eat it BUT you have just consumed 740 calories. If your calorie max is 1600 calories you only have 860 left for the rest of the day UNLESS you do some sort of exercise. There are many tools online to tell you how many calories per serving are in everyday foods. One such resource that is very helpful is http://www.thedailyplate.com/ Here you can put in your weight, age, height, etc. and your goal weight. The site will tell you how many calories you can consume in order to reach your goal weight. You can also log everything you have eaten throughout the day and it will keep track of your calorie totals.





I hesitate to put my starting weight and "before" picture on here yet. I will wait until I knock a few pounds off before revealing my starting weight. I will put updates on here every week to tell the 4 of you how I am progressing and how my detox is going.

Remember, this is MY version of the Low Calorie Diet. I am not sure that this is what a Doctor will tell you to do but it has worked for me in the past.

Son of Jor-El! From the Planet Krypton...

Jamie and I were checking out a loud noise we heard in our barn and found this little guy crawling around a smoldering meteor. He has many strange powers that could one day save the planet from evil villains like, making fart noises, pulling his feet to his mouth, rendering humans unconscious with his dirty diapers and screeching in such a high pitch that all canines in a 20 mile radius will rush to his aide, etc. The list goes on and on.