Life of An Emotional Eater

A daily blog journal of an over weight man looking to gain control of his eating habits and his emotional life.

2008/1/31

A long day...

@ 10:20 AM (7 months, 10 days ago)

Yesterday turned out to be a very long and difficult day. I have been fighitng off a nasty head and chest cold the past couple of days, so I really have not been feeling up to par. Mostly I have been laying in bed wondering when the throbbing pain between my eyes will go away. So you can understand the desire for me NOT to want to go anywhere, hell I didn't even want to put on clothes. But, when my sister called and said my dad was in the hospital, you can see how my feeling about getting dressed and getting into the car could change at a moments notice.

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2008/1/28

The First Day

@ 06:25 PM (7 months, 13 days ago)

Well, I didn't want to do it, but I decided it is in the best interest to start. I got onto the scale and my heart sunk. I am now 205.6 pounds and a ghastly 32.2 BMI (Body Mass Index). My heart sunk. How could I have gotten so big so fast? According to the website http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/ My Body Mass Index Scale should be somewhere between 125.0 and 168.5 pounds. So just for me to be in the "healthy" range, I would need to lose 37.1 pounds. The last time I weighed 168 pounds was when I left Army Basic Training in the early 1990's. Now I have to shave off 37 pounds just to get back to what I was then. With all my complaining and bitching about the military and what it puts people through, I guess there are a few things they know and understand; body weight ratios is one of them. Though, in my defense, I have never had a nutrition class or a class on how to maintain a healthy weight. No help with the feelings I have around food, about food, or myself for that matter. It pains me to see that scale and to see the blob of fat that has gathered around my middle.

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The start...

@ 12:45 AM (7 months, 13 days ago)

Well, I have to admit, this has come on quite fast for me. Today I was driving in my car thinking about life and it came to me that I am over weight for some reason or another.

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