Richard on a Diet

Today's the Day
OK, here we go!!  The first day of my diet is here. I am determined. I am resolved. I will succeed.  I will weigh-in once a week (Sundays) and post a chart on this blog with my progress.  Encouragement and "way to go's" are highly encouraged..   The diet I'm starting is called 20/20.  It seems easy enough. 

Here are the 2 rules:  

1. Eat LESS than 20 grams of fat per day. 
2. Eat MORE than 20 grams of fiber per day.

That's it!  Everything is permitted in unlimited amounts if I just follow those 2 rules. I don't have to count calories, or carbs or sugars or anything!   We'll see how it goes.  

In addition to those eating rules, I'm taking Phentermine (37.5mg), a multi-vitamin and Chromium Picolinate daily. The Phentermine is by prescription and I'm doing this whole plan under that doctor's care.

I'm usually not a pill guy and during my career as an Air Traffic Controller, these pills (and many others) were strictly forbidden. When I was a teen, I took these pills and they helped significantly to help me lose weight. So, having taken them before, I'm not at all apprehensive about taking them again. Is it 'cheating'? WHO CARES!! I need to lose weight and will take any help I can get.

Here's my first week's charts. They're not much to look at now, but you just weight!!! (yeah, pun intended!)

				Total	Lbs. to	Avg.
Week	Date	Weight	Loss	Loss	Go	Per Week
0	8/17/14	321.5	0	0	141.5

Now, let's go lose some weight!
Please share this blog with others that may need encouragement to help them lose some weight!!!