Well, my work here is done, folks. I actually weight a little bit less now than when I started my binge eating/dieting thing. I'm pretty happy with my new diet, and think I am going to continure eating this way, because I do feel quite a bit healthier. In case anyone wants to go on the LiteraryHero diet, I am releasing a book next February. Ok, I'm actually not releasing a book, I'm just an idiot. A big idiot...

I am thinking about quitting dieting all together and entering into the world of competitive eating. Sonya 'Black Widow' Thomas won another eating contest by finishing off 38 lobsters (9.8 lbs of lobster meat) in 12 minutes. This event which actually is done by two people won her 500$ and a trophy belt. You have one person who is getting the meat out of the lobster while the other person eats. Sonya is best known in the Philadelphia area for dethrowning El Wingador from the wing bowl this past winter. She also has records for eating hard boiled eggs and finished off 8.4 lbs of beans in two minutes and forty seven seconds. WOW! Best of all, Thomas weighs in at a svelte 105 lbs.

Well, I have reached my goal of losing ten pounds, and I feel pretty good about it. I managed to lose the weight faster than the 45 days that I allotted and that is pretty good too. I'm going to weigh myself one last time on the 45th day for this journal, but I consider myself all but done my weight gain/loss fun. I still plan on eating the way I have been, because I feel healthier and I still want to lose a little more weight. I think that once I lose ten more pounds I will be the size that I want to be. And no, I don't mean that in a Mary Kate Olsen sort of way, I really think that 185 lbs is my ideal weight. Well, I guess this is it, thanks everyone for yelling at me when I tried to snack, and for force feeding me when I just wanted to relax. I wish I could say that I couldn't have done it without you, but I bet I could have o.~

So far so good, I have to say. Losing weight isn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. Seriously, there were times when I feared for my sanity. But over the past four weeks now I have had no problems whatsoever. I have only broken my diet a handful of times, and each time I had a good excuse (I was hungry ^^). Seriously though, I am happy with my results to this point, but really don't see any results when I look in the mirror. I'm afraid that I might be losing weight from somewhere that is already skinny, because I still have a large belly.

Please, oh please, don't make me start excercising. I have been promising myself every week that if my gut wasn't getting smaller I would start excercising. Obviously this hasn't happened. I really don't intend to excercize yet, because I just don't see myself doing it. Maybe if I get a little more motivated at some point in the future, but right now I am just going to stay on my 'diet' and hope that eventually the belly goes away. The good news is that I am only one pound away from my goal.

The downside is that if I recall, I was only one pound away from gaining ten pounds and I ended up falling apart the next week. Lets hope that I keep losing weight here so don't have to resort to anything drastic (read: excercise).

Well, it has been three weeks since I started trying to lose weight, and things are going pretty well for me. While I am not seeing amazing results like they promise you on television, I am losing a couple of pounds a week. I actually think that this is the best way to diet, because I am actually working to lose the weight (well, Im actually not working, because rather than eating I'm just doing nothing). I have stopped snacking completely, and only eat three regular meals a day. This has actually worked wonders for me, because I am still eating large meals, but at the same time am slowly losing weight.

Although the scale says that I am losing weight (it looks like I am about 8-9 pounds lighter than I was three weeks ago), and I am actually feeling quite a bit better, I still can't see the difference in myself. I'm not sure where the weight I'm losing is coming from, but my belly and face seem to be the same. I am sure that I will notice the difference as I keep going, because I don't intend on stopping at 195 lbs (my pre 'Challenge' weight). I want to get down to probably 180-185, and see how I feel around there. While 195 isn't fat for someone of my height (6'2"ish), I have a rather skinny build, so think that I am healthier being light, rather than heavy. We will have to see though, because I have been flirting with the idea of starting to work out and see if I can build up some muscle mass. This shouldn't be that hard, since I am working with nothing right now. Literally nothing...I have steered clear of strenuous excercise since high school, and I have to say it kind of hurt the body. The problem is that it is so easy to stop exercising but it is so hard to start. Either way, I am pretty happy with my progress so far, and barring an unforeseen eating binge, I should have no problem bringing my weight down to 195 by the end of August (it is only two pounds, after all!).

Well, it looks like my pseudo diet is working for me. I haven't actually been dieting, per se, rather just not eating as much (maybe that is a diet o.o). I have completely stopped snacking between meals, but other than that eat three meals a day and have whatever I want. By not snacking I removed so much food from my diet, so I am guessing that it balances it with large meals. I am pretty happy to find out that I am losing a bit of weight, because I'm not quite ready to actually start excersizing yet.

I have been doing really well with not snacking between meals, and haven't really missed it at all. I was afraid that I would have serious problems with cutting out snacks, since I have felt a bit of dependancy on them over the past year or so (office life is boring, so I eat). Unfortunately, the past two weekends I haven't really been able to judge exactly how much I am eating, so the three meals a day line gets blurry. For instance, I ate pretty much all day yesterday, and breakfast sort of ran into lunch, but what can you do? I think that as long as I try my best and can keep myself from snacking (particularly during the week, and when I am at home on weekends) I will be able to lose weight just fine. I have 34 days left and only need to lose another six pounds to put me at where I started, so that shouldn't be a problem.

The problem is that even though I have lost about 4-5 pounds in the past 11 days I still have the same sized belly. I am paranoid that I will end up getting my weight back down, but not lose the gut. That would be very depressing, and I would actually have to excersize then. I'm not to happy with looking pregnant (hah), so think I need to do something about that. Before I do anything rash though, I will wait another week to see if I can get a visible improvement. ^^

Fat Quote of the Day:
Your mom's so fat, she can't even jump to a conclusion--Inex

Well, it looks like I have lost about a pound and a half since Thursday, but I really don't think that I have lost any weight at all. I think that the difference of two pounds comes from the fact that I wasn't snacking all day so my stomach was empty rather than full. Not really sure if that is how these things work, but dieting this weekend was harder than I would have thought. My little brother had a big cookout up at his new house, and I went up there knowing full well that I would eat too much. I have been doing well with quitting snacking, and actually I think I feel a bit better just from that. However, when it comes to meal time I am still having a hard time actually sitting down and eating smaller portions. Looks like I am actually going to have to excersize after all.

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