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The Tuesday after Labor Day of '07 I joined weight watchers, or the W2 as I like to call it, because I had started to get fat again! It happens every five years. Twice in my life I have dropped a 100 lbs or more. This time I didn't get that far. I needed to loose about 30 lbs maybe even 40. Who knows. My perception of myself, like so many others is skewed.

The first time I went on a diet I was intense and crazed. My senior year of high school I walked every night about 10-miles and subsisted on very little food. It actually made me go a bit crazy. Then as that became harder to manage I did a little binge and purge action. Oh so fun. Then I gave up. It was just to hard. I went off to college and got fat AGAIN! You would think we would learn.

So flash forward five years, I'm sitting in a dinner across the street from a gym eating pancakes covered in butter and syrup. I looked in the window and there was a book on display that I had already bought and read, and tried, and gave up. It was called Body for Life. You know I think it's a great program for those people that really have the time to focus on it. It worked, and I called and joined the gym. The owner, Brenda, and I became fast friends. She so wanted this to work for me, that she and her staff were my free personal trainers for 6-months. I began to run, do 10-K's, etc. It changed my life.

I have made the "gym" and real exercise part of my everyday life. That said, life gets hard. Jobs suck and drain the life out of you. My last job went really bad with a change over in management occurred. It was stressful and we lived in fear. I used to pray that they would fire me like they promised. I wanted it. Well 7-months later I found a new job, and about an extra 20-15 lbs.

My new job is great, its fun, exciting, but its not easy and its not puppy dogs and rainbows. It's work. It's given me more time. I no longer have an hour commute-each way and I can focus more on me.

So here I am, 7-weeks into the W2 and 20 lbs lighter. Don't get me wrong I work at it. I go to the gym 7 days-a-week. I lift Mon-Sat and Do cardio Mon-Sun. Sometimes I take a day off but you need to. What I have learned is that you can eat a lot of gourmet food that is really low points and delicious. So I'm going to start to put those up here to share them with everyone.