Diet Journaling

I’m just about to go on a little hiatus and take some time off for Holy Week, which is a little weird because I haven’t stopped writing this blog since I’ve gone on my weigh loss program. This has been my connection with the world and to tell you the truth I’m a little wig out by the concept of not writing for a week. Am I going to lose everyone who follows me? Will I become lazy and not want to write again? It’s actually scary for me to take a week off.

When I started this whole thing it was sort of an emotional experiment, there has been a lot of women who have journaled about their weight loss experience, but very few men, and I wanted to give a male perspective. Not that I consider myself the typical male, but I figure there are some elements of gender that are inherent on how I look at things, that might be different from the female perspective.

And I was also super morbidly obese (well still am but getting smaller by the day) and I think there are a lot of people out there like me, who feel tapped by their circumstance. For the first month of my writing this blog, I was crying out for help, begging for someone, anyone to come in and save me (i.e. the FatMan 911 title). I wrote to everyone one I could think of Dr. Phil, Ophra, Dr. Oz, the President, I even put myself up as a guinea pig for sale. And when no-one showed up to save the day, I got depressed, really depressed, and was staring at the edge of a razor blade wondering if there was a single reason for me to live, and the sad thing was I couldn’t think of one. I had set my life in order, I had said my last goodbyes, and I had isolated myself from the world. Not only would anyone care that I was gone, but no-one would even know about my passing for at least a month, until my rent was do.

I don’t want to go into what turned me around because I’ve talked about that in other hubs, but I reached a point that I was going to give life one last chance, and I’ve been writing this journey ever since.

Along this experience I’ve meet some absolutely fantastic individuals, who have walked this journey with me, who have given me there insight, and have encouraged me with there comments. I am not always the best person to respond to comments, but trust me I read everything anyone writes and take it to heart.

This is sounding like a long goodbye, geeze, I’m only taking a week off!

For those who follow my weight loss progress I’m going to take a week off to revamp my bio, maybe take some more pictures maybe shoot some video. Because I’ve written so many articles that I need to consolidate my information so that anyone who wanders into my story can pick up to where I’ve been and where I’m going without having to spend a year and a half reading everything I’ve written. Also I will be starting Phase Two of my weight loss process, so the first week after Easter expects to see a whole bunch of new stuff.

I want to write one more article on my Polish heritage, and Easter breakfast and all that type of stuff tomorrow, and I probably still leave Sundays free to write about spiritual things and religion, so if you’re not spiritually minded skip Sundays. But I think it will be another exciting journey, I hope everyone will join me, and have a great week

Stay healthy, stay safe, and as always

Peace

Jerry (aka FatMan911)