If you type 'diet' into Google 201,000,000 results show up. If you type in 'successful diet' into Google 26,700,000 results appear. If you choose to type in 'healthy living' there are 19,300,000 results.
I have been a tourist of the diet and healthy living world for the past seven years but now I am filling in my paperwork and doing the work to become a permanent resident.

The beginning

At the beginning of my journey I am sitting here at 5’6, 209lbs with a BMI of 34.8. Those are the stats which prompted this blog as I had never crossed the 200lb threshold before. I had come close but without even noticing I didn’t just step over it, I leapt. Since I was ten I have been aware of my weight, always a skinny child my family would warn me ‘Don’t eat so much! You’ll be big as a house one day!’ and I would laugh and roll my eyes and carry on eating what I liked, certain that this would never happen to me. As I went through puberty however I steadily put on weight which started the diet / binge cycle that led to me putting on more weight than I ever lost with my dieting efforts.

Seven years after I remember starting my first serious diet I’m twenty years old in university and still unhappy with my body and health in general. I’d love to be slimmer but more importantly I want to be healthy, I want to live to an old age and be one of those old people still kick boxing and out and about. Many of my family are overweight and obese, I see their struggle in their elder years and I do not want to be one of them.

My ultimate goal is to work until I am 140lbs which is a happy medium within my BMI range. This blog will document the highs and lows that will hopefully get me there.

“di·et [dahy-it] noun, verb, -et·ed, -et·ing, adjective
–noun 1. food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health: Milk is a wholesome article of diet.
2. a particular selection of food, esp. as designed or prescribed to improve a person’s physical condition or to prevent or treat a disease: a diet low in sugar.
3. such a selection or a limitation on the amount a person eats for reducing weight: No pie for me, I’m on a diet.
4. the foods eaten, as by a particular person or group: The native diet consists of fish and fruit.”
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