Day 0

So this is it! The title of my blog has two purposes. One, I don't to be fat for the rest of my life. Two, I don't want to die before I reach my next birthday.

I am 35 years old with my fourth child on the way. I feel that I am so overweight, I would call myself obese. I am not happy with how I got here, but things have to change. My wife has just started to get on me about my size and my father laughs at me whenever I say I am going to lose weight. My knees hurt, my angles hurt, my back hurts on and on and on. I can't look down and touch my toes. I can't mow the lawn without getting tired. It is even so bad, I even have trouble cleaning myself when I use the bathroom.

Sure there maybe other people worse off that me, but I feel like if I don't do something now, it will not end well for me. I think I weigh somewhere around 280 pounds, but I want to change that. I may have done and said things in the past, but this is it. Time for a change. I have decided to use this blog as a testament to my commitment to lose weight for myself and my family. I have never documented my journey before now. I don't have a camera, but I will get one because I want to give a good "picture" of my progress. I guess if this is embarrassing I will get moving.

Since this is the Friday before Memorial Day when I am writing this, I will wait and start on Tuesday May 26,2009 to begin my life change. That way I can get a few pictures of myself and a scale to establish a baseline for what I am doing. I will also figure out how often I will post, what I will post and when I will post pictures as well. I hope this works.


*** If you happen upon this blog and have similar problems like me, let me know. send me an email at idontwanttodiefat@gmail.com. I know how hard this can be. Everyone needs a little help and if I can help some along the way, then I will. ***