Dieting - Day 1

This is a pretty common story....people trying to diet, failing, trying again, failing again and then giving up.  I've done the trying and failing plenty a time, but I have yet to reach the "give up" stage where I need to be cut out of my house to get to a doctor to be starved in a hospital until I can lose enough weight to have surgery.  Today is day 1 for yet another TRY at dieting and losing weight. 

I don't feel obese, but according to my WiiFit, I am.  Based on most scales for my weight/height, I am.  The way I feel around Summertime when i'm in my swimsuit...OBESE.  I would be so pleased with losing 15 lbs.  You think to yourself (as I do), 15 lbs should be a piece of cake.  A guy on The Biggest Loser can drop 15+ in one week, so you should be able to.  Well, it's never THAT easy or we'd all be thin, right?

Scott and I have done Weight Watchers before and have been successful.  I do get caught up in the dieting plans.  Tried the Special K diet.....am not suprised that if you eat a bowl of cereal that is enough to feed a finch twice a day then you lose weight.  Tried the SlimFast diet...as with most diets every snack they give you is chocolate based somehow.  I don't like chocolate, so I would have to force myself to eat it. The shakes are sweet (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry), the snacks are chocolate something and then I get one really healthy meal.  NOT for me!  Went vegan at one point which I know is not a weight loss plan but just a way of eating.  It was not THAT hard, but if you can not program your mind to hate meat, you can't make it work.  Joined bootcamp and it kicked my A$$, it worked, I lost inches, but as with most things you want to weigh less, not lose inches.  I did get stronger and i'd suggest bootcamp to ANYONE.  And with all these plans, this is not a slamfest, just what I have found for myself with each of them.  I even did the Hollywood Diet drink where you drink this orange stuff for 24 hours, maybe longer...I thought I was dying of starvation.

So, back to Weight Watchers I go.  #1 because I know it works for me and #2 because I can get Scott on board with it and it won't be AS hard if we are both doing it.  Already i'm struggling because I want pizza.  Yes, it's 9am in the morning and I want it.  Because I can't have it.  Not the kind I want....the cheesy hot yummy kind that I could eat each and every single day.  No candy, no alcohol, all the fun things I want to eat and will now want them a thousand times more because I can't have them.  I suspect my family will be running for the hills over the next few weeks each time they hear me pull up. 

Day #1 for the Fat Toad: