On my way to being a loser...

So today I started the Atkins diet. I am totally cutting bread and pasta out of my diet and walking on the treadmill for 60 minutes each day. That is totally doable and people have been losing a lot of weight by doing this ( I've witnessed with my own eyes friends who have dropped 40 lbs in less than 6 months.) If I lose at least 40 lbs by the end of the year...that'll put me right about where I need to be.

Wow, tuna casserole sure sounds good right now...

But this Atkins thing is not bad at all...I eat fish, steak, hamburgers, veggies, and now that we have a grill food tastes even better! And you don't have to totally quit eating carbs...you're allowed 21 grams/day. (you'd be surprised just how many grams of carbs are in the foods you eat - check out the nutritional value.) There's this particular type of bread we like to eat...each piece has 23 grams of carbs. Well NO MORE!

And to show you and myself how serious about this I am...I will post my weight each day and what I have eaten...

Day 1:
Weight: 205

Breakfast:
2 large eggs, scrambled, with shredded cheese.

Lunch:
4 slices mozzarella cheese
3 animal crackers
1/2 cup cottage cheese

Dinner:
Hamburger patty (93% fat free, grilled)with 1 slice pepper-jack cheese
1/2 cup mixed veggies
1 cup bean & ham soup

Total carbs: 21 grams