Okay its just one hurdle

Well Monday at the WW meeting it was, lets just say I might be focusing on the program at home.  Not to be judgemental but the group thing is not for me.  When I say I don't have anything to say group leader I don't have anything to say!!!!!

Then today I met with my family doctor to review the lab results from the blood I had drawn a couple weeks ago during my physical.

I kinda thought I knew what the results would be, but I was choosing to ignore the signs and symptoms, even though I am a RN, I knew better.  My results showed that I was diabetic.

Bummer!

But all is not lost, with diet and exercise I can control the beast!!!  Will write more later.

One Day Away

Okay here it is, Sunday evening just about 13 hours away from my first Weight Watchers (WW) meeting.  Its a 9am meeting, which will work becasue I will go to my meeting then go to Best Buy and get hooked up with a lap top computer.  I want my own computer not only for me to record my weight loss journey but also for a business that I will be starting up.  I have a couple teenagers so, I can get on it when I want.

Snyder CPR & First Aid Training.....This is a part-time business that I would go a business, like a daycare and teach them and issue their cards for CPR and/or First Aid.  For those that don't know me I am a RN.

TO DO LIST MONDAY OCT 2 2006

• 9:00am..............................Weight Watchers Meeting
• 9:01am..............................Start of a new journey/life

Get Set........Go!!!!

Okay the journey begins Monday as I attend my first Weight Watchers meeting.  I have choosen Weight Watchers over others for a couple reasons:

1. Ease of use...use points assigned to each food item you eat up to you reach your daily point total.
2. Track those points, so in a sense you are creating your diet log/meal log.
3. Ease of food selection.  You can choose a wide variety of food choices and frozen foods to create your own food plan.
4. Successful program.  Yes there are other diets other like the Medifast/Atkins/LA Weight Loss and Weight Loss Surgery.  Studies have shown that the WW diet is the most successful in (keyword here) sustained weight loss.

So please stay tuned as I update you on my weight loss journey and as I share with you my plans and goals.

i posted a picture of my children today.  This is a picture from our summer vacation this year.  The little guy is my 15yr old 6ft 4in son and the gal is my 17 yr old daughter.

Starting the journey.

Today marks the begining of a healthy me.  Well, the journey begins again.  How many more times can I start this weight loss journey?  I have started and stopped so many times I have loss track.  But this time its different!  Yes it is.

A little background, I am 44 years young and am married with 2 children (both teenagers...help me!!!).  I have a black lab named Shasta.  I work as an RN Supervisor in a local community hospital.

I have always been "husky".  I stand 6ft 4in tall and stopped growing at age 12.  I have also been a good size guy but never overweight.  I was in the Air Force as a Fire Rescue Specialist and worked every other day.  This continued later in my adult life when I was biking everyday.  I then started working nights in a hospital as a lab assistant and stayed on nights most of my adult career.  Both as a lab person and as an RN over the past 25 years I have worked nites a majority of the time.  With this being tired and not sleeping, I became last active and eating lousy.  I would eat foods like chips and pizzas and galoons of soda pop to help stay awake.

Well zoom ahead and now I am 44years old and obese.  I think the turning point for me the other day at work.  Being the on-duty nursing supervisor I am responsible for helpong run a code blue team when a patient is in crisis.  I was on one wing of the hospital when I heard the overhead page "Code Blue Ambulatory Surgery".  Ambulatory Surgery was clear over on the other side of the hospital.  So, I ran (yeah big man running look out!) and arrived at the code and help bring the patient around (she was okay) and after the code I was helping the nurses clean everything and assisting writing up the reports when I heard on the nurses say "I thought we were going to have code Steve".  WHAT????  I knew I was huffing and a puffing but a lot a people were.  You get a little rush going and again it was a long haul to get there. 

Hello wake up call anyone there??????????????

My weight does keep me from doing things and more importantly it is not healthy.  I need to become a healthy father and husband so that I am around to see my kids graduated and leave the house (YES!!!!!) and get married and becoming the doting grandfather.

So, this "blog" will be a record of my weight loss journey.  So, stay tuned.