New Year Resolution

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
– George Orwell

It seems to me that diets and blogs have one thing in common. Even though they are easy enough to start, they are not so easy to stick with!

I'm a fifty something year old office manager with experience in website design and online shopping carts. I've been helping to promote MetaCleanse colon cleanse for almost five years since I first put up a website for my friend Lynnette, developer of MetaCleanse.

I've started lots of diets and successfully lost over fifty pounds with Weight Watchers after my first son was born, though I must admit that was quite a while ago. I also lost about that same amount over the course of the first few years after I was divorced through no specific plan, but about thirty pounds of that has crept back on and I was heavier to start out with than the first time I lost a lot of weight.

Probably no one knows more about MetaCleanse than I do, with the exception of Lynnette. I've written pages and pages of content for her website and I've used MetaCleanse a number of times.

However, I've never made MetaCleanse an integral part of trying to loose weight, despite Lynette telling me that's exactly what I should do.

But recently in thinking of ways to promote MetaCleanse and taking into consideration that I seem to be on the loosing end of my over twenty year weight loss struggle, it seemed to make a lot of sense to use a blog to support my weight loss and use weight loss to promote MetaCleanse with a blog.

One of my problems with losing weight is that I don't feel that unhappy about being fat. I'm not one of those women who are miserable about how much they weigh. But recently I got a scare about my blood pressure and then checked my BMI (Body Mass Index) on a link from a New York Times article about obesity. It is so high that I just can't ignore it. I have two grown sons I love very much, enough to make the effort to try to stay above ground for as long as I possibly can.

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, one way to reach a weight loss goal is not to keep your New Year's resolutions to yourself. It seems that sharing a goal helps to keep you going in the right direction.

I've got a stack of diet books from the library and a life time supply of MetaCleanse thanks to my work for Lynnette. And I am willing to share my experiences - mostly to give me more determination to reach my goal - but perhaps it will help other folks with the same problems as well.

My intention is to make a post to this blog every week on Sunday. Today's weight is 262 pounds and my Body Mass Index is 45!