Getting organized

The biggest (pardon the pun) downside of being overweight is the multitude of health issues one can end up with. I currently take medication for diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. In addition to all of this, I'm rather fond of homeopathic remedies, so throw in a couple products from some GNC type store and basically I'm left wondering with all these freaking pills how do I even have room to consume food? Clearly I have found the room though, that's why I'm here, right? :-) Anyway, I feel like a regular Golden Girl with my new suitcase sized pill box that has helped me to organize my pharmaceutical consumption for the next two weeks. Mmmm, better living through chemistry.

Okay, on to other uncomfortable things to post in a public forum...I weighed myself Saturday and was actually pleasantly surprised. I'm 12 pounds lighter than I was at the beginning of January. How I accomplished that with my complete lack of exercise and exorbitant amount of cupcakes I've eaten these past two months is a mystery to me! But I digress....drum roll please...I weigh 221.8 pounds. (SIGH) You have no idea how many times I deleted and retyped that previous sentence. It's just a number right? Shouldn't be exceptionally difficult to type, but it was. I guess I could not post that. I guess I could just show up on this blog every week or so and say "GREAT NEWS, I'm down (insert pounds here)!", but if you don't know where I started, how will you really know how much I've accomplished when all is said and done? So, to this knot I feel in my stomach while looking at this "publish post" button, I say 221.8, 221.8, 221.8!!!

Oh yes, I decided on a meal plan! I will be following the Six-Week Body Makeover. I'm guessing folks have plenty of suggestions for plans I could follow, but the meals and frequency of meals on this plan are commensurate with a diabetic diet, so I'm happy. I start the meal plan this Wednesday and in the meantime just watch my carbohydrate intake. I've worked out the past four days in a row and already that feels easier. I have not given up smoking. I tried dieting and quitting smoking on the same day once, and let's face it, this blog is called Fatty, not Bitchy, so one vice at a time :-P

That's all for updates for now folks. As always, be good to yourselves and be good to each other! Fatty out!