Heading in a new direction

Three weeks ago I started living the South Beach Lifestyle. I had gone to see my Ob/Gyn for my annual and I talked to him about my weight issues. I'm not going to go into all the details, but he prescribed me Phentermine and told me to get the South Beach Diet book and do exactly what it says.

So, I dropped off my prescription and ordered the new South Beach Diet Supercharged book. I have 'done' the SBD in the past. It was after my 2nd child, Sean, was born. I was pretty successful too. I think I lost between 30 and 40 pounds. But somewhere in there I decided that I had lost enough weight so now I could eat like I used to. Well, I was wrong. And somewhere between there and the 3rd child the weight just kept going up.

I managed to lose 11 pounds over the last year, but that's nothing to write home about when you have 90 more to go! I suppose at least I wasn't gaining anymore.

So, on July 3rd I started taking Phentermine and applying the principles of the South Beach Diet to my eating. I decided early on not to call it the South Beach Diet. For me, it HAS to be the South Beach Lifestyle. Otherwise I'll just fall into the same traps as before.

This blog is mostly for me. I don't know that anyone else will ever even read it, except maybe some close friends and family. I find the 'community' on the SBD website a little annoying to navigate and deal with. Besides, I don't care if strangers read about what I'm doing or not. I just want a place where I can keep track of what's important to me in this endeavor.

So I will dispense with the numbers. My scale weight, on July 3rd, 2008, was 247.