Starting over at trying to get healthy and to lose weight

Yesterday we got back from a week long cruise.  I was amazed at how many people I saw who resembled me is stature.  There are WAY too many overweight (OBESE) people in America.  Starting today I am going to stop being one of them.

On the cruise I read Dr Fuhrman's  The End of Dieting: How to Live for Life.   In there he points out all the benefits of eating a healthy diet and how the overly processed foods we eat today have little nutritional value and actually just serve to make us want MORE of the bad foods.  (Do you know how hard it is to read a book about eating HEALTHY and put it down to go to the next buffet!!)

I am inspired by listening to Penn Jillette's Podcast.  In there he talks about how he has lost around 100 pounds and how he now eats as much as he wants (all healthy foods) and actually enjoys what he is eating and does not feel bloated and tired after every meal.

In order to prepare myself for such a drastic change, I am going to fast for a few days.  I think I need to try to get some of the cravings for these types of foods out of my system.  That way when I end my fast, my body will just be excited that it is getting food and can LEARN to enjoy the new healthy foods I am giving it.

I know that all of you are thinking that I must be possessed.  I have always been one of those people who eat MEAT, MEAT and more MEAT.  Always saying that the veggies must have gone bad, since they had turned green.   But there is really no way I can look around at the general population and NOT come to the conclusion that there has to be something wrong with the diet of normal Americans.  There is no possible way that we all just happened to get FAT, it is the food that is causing our addiction and our addiction is so bad, that we just go get stronger medicines to take care of our high blood pressure or our high cholesterol.  That way we can continue to eat likes cows being fattened for the slaughter.  Changing our diet is HARD, and I am going to try and do it.

My Dad passed away at the age of 66 after 25+ years of heart attacks, high blood pressure, congestive heart failure......  Now my Mom, at the age of 67, has been diagnosed with Colon cancer.  I am 45 and I do NOT want to end up that way.  I always used to tell my Wife that she did not have to worry about planning anything for my 70th birthday, since I did not plan to live that long, based on my family history......  Well, now I want to change that.  I see my Wife's Grandfather living well at the YOUNG age of 101 and I start to think that maybe I would like to see if I could make it to 70, 80 maybe even 90 (or more)

I stepped on the scale today and it showed me back a number that EQUALS the largest I have ever been.  319.2.    That is disgusting!!!!  My goal in this is to see if I can lose 100 pounds.  I don't know what my final goal weight is, but I am hoping that I will start a better way of eating (and thus living) and the weight will go away. I am not going to be obsessed about the actual weight number, I just want to feel better and know that I am eating food that is supposed to help me live longer, not food that is going to help get the medical profession richer, due to me needing more medications and future life saving procedures.