This is the story of what will be my transformation. I have struggled with my weight for sometime now and must admit – it has at times got the best of me. At the present time I am 194, down from 198 the beginning of this month. A friend and I made a three month bet to see who could loose the most weight – and I am not the loosing type. The problem is, neither is she.

I have searched the web both from home and work to find useful information for someone in my shoes. All I have found is propaganda and fad diets, neither of which I am very interested in. The sites that are worth their weight in chocolate also tend to weigh heavy on the pocket book – and who the hell wants to spend a fistful of cash on weight loss tips, there is a new wardrobe to buy. That’s only my first grip about weight loss sites, moving on.

Fitness magazine – great sources of information, great laughs when you go to purchase at the supermarket. While I fiercely admire the chicks in those magazines, I will probably never look like that, and that’s fine by me. In fact, I don’t want to look like most of them – I want to look like me, and be the healthiest person I can be. I will continue to buy fitness magazines for a few reasons, great tips, and I enjoy the cashiers giggles when I pay (at $6 an hour, they need all the laughs and giggles they can get).

Fad diets – quick, how many can you name. Adkins, South Beach, Zone, too hard, sick of failure and I can’t keep doing this. It’s funny how we know so much about fad diets, and so little about what is really good for us. When it comes to nutrition, I had to admit to myself that I did not know anything.  All that I learned about nutrition comes from fad diets my mom experimented with during my youth.