I started as so many do....

I had just graduated from college in December and had hit 222 pounds. I knew I need to do something about my weight but lacked the motivation. Kept telling myself that I would start tomorrow.

The new year arrived and I stepped on the scale January 1, 2009 and was still at 222 pounds. I looked at myself in the mirror and made a commitment to myself to make a change. For a lack of a better word, a resolution was born. My ideal weight for my height is listed at about 155. That put me at 67 pounds overweight and technically obese. I made a goal to lose 40 pounds by the end of August. That would be 5 pounds per month and just over a pound per week. I convinced myself that this was a reasonable goal and committed myself to it. I knew doing fad diets like Atkins or South Beach would likely bear results but I also knew that I would likely regain the weight as I had done before. The only way I was sure this would work would be eating well balanced meals.

I started search for online calorie counters and trackers and came across http://www.everydayhealth.com and found it to be one stop shopping for all that I was looking for. I could track my weight, all of my nutritional values, even the amount of water I was drinking.

After a day of the tracking I knew that it was going to be effortless and that there would be some worked involved but I also knew that it was worth it. I spent probably close to two hours adding information the first day but saw the amount of time decrease over a course of a couple weeks.