I have noticed during this experience of losing weight it that affects your friends and family in different ways. My wife has always been fit and healthy, but my new weight loss and interest in running has sparked a competitive nature in her. While others just feel the need to share that they know they are overweight and they simply don’t care, or do not have the will to change their eating habits. While others have been inspired, and I have started seeing them make decisions to try and make better decisions when it comes to meal time. You never really realize how a decision you make can affect so many people around you.

Not long after I started on Medifast in fact it was only a few days after, I went on a trip out to California for business, and to see some friends. I was concerned that it would be difficult to stay on my diet while traveling, but realized i could just pack it in my bag and take it with me. I went on two vacations, one being a cruise and two business trips while being on the Medifast Meal Plan and managed to lose weight on every single trip. No other diet I know about would make this possible. So if you are about to go on a vacation and you are thinking “I will start my diet afterward”. Well, think again because you could lose 4-5 pounds while you are gone. Just get started you won’t be dissapointed.

I thought it was time to give a little more detail about exactly what I am doing. We’ll as you can probably tell by the advertisement on your right I decided to go on the medifast jumpstart diet plan to lose weight. Why medifast? You might ask. Well I like the structure of the medifast system, and every other system I found seemed didn’t seem hard core enough. The plan is really simple you eat about every 2-3 hrs and you eat their pre-packaged food 5 of those times and then one lean and green meal. After following the plan for 5 days I am down to 196 pounds. Do the math that is 9 pounds in 5 days. I am actually on a plane to California right now on a plane with free WiFi! I thought it might be hard to keep on the diet while I am gone, but I just packed the food in my bag. I will let you know how it turns out.

Welcome, and thanks for visiting my new blog.

If you are here you are here for one of 3 reasons.

1. You blindly follow links on the internet taking you to amazing and wonderful places.
2. You have been trying lose weight and you are trying to find other people who have and how they did it!
3. You are a friend of mine and out of some obligation feel it necessary to visit.

Well, whatever the reason I am glad to have you. I have come to the realization of something, and I know this might come as a big shock to some of you that know me but here it goes. “I’m FAT!” Surprised? Me either, I have been watching my hands put food in my mouth all my life. You know I have been complaining lately a lot about how our government has been spending way to much money. I know what your thinking! POLITICS? What I discovered was that the very thing I was complaining about them doing I was doing to myself. I was eating more calories every day then I could take, but unlike the treasury I was having a surplus.

So what to do about this surplus?  As far as I can tell I have 3 options.

1. The Democratic Strategy – Eat more in fact Eat a lot more!
2. The Republican Strategy – Eat a little less, but not enough where it is uncomfortable.
3. The Revolutionary – Drastic calorie intake reduction.

Well I have made my decision and I have decided to go with option number 3. In fact my goal is to lose 40 pounds or about 18 kg for my friends across the pond. How am I going to do it? Well stay tuned and find out.

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