Diet Time

Prom is rearing its ugly head in Mt. Vernon and I have just become the owner of a purple dress with spaghetti strap ties on the back. The problem is that if I tighten the straps my fat oozes out the sides of the dress. Yes, I could get a bigger dress or let it out, but this dress was FREE and from a friend. I couldn't harm her sister's dress. It's such a gorgeous dress. So now I must shrink to fit it. The one problem with that is my boobs will be EVEN SMALLER in the gown and I can only tie it so tight so that that won't be a huge problem at the dance.

Anyways, my teenage body image problems are going to be fixed. I was going to start losing weight for college this fall anyway, so I might as well start now. The original plan was that I wouldn't even go to prom, but the dress beckoned me.

So tomorrow I am starting my diet/excercise regime. I haven't run in awhile so that's gonna be a sore thing. My hips are going to be killing me, but it'll help my back so I'm still all right with it. Anyways I will be running about 1/4 of a mile tomorrow and then I will walk the rest of that. I will also be cutting out my "bad foods". The cookies, the chips, the candies, the sodas. I don't really intake any of that anyway, but I did bake cookies together so I'm going to have to stay away from them. And the cinnamon chips I love to munch on so much.

My problem is really determination. I fizzle after a bit and then eat whatever I want and start going lax with my excercise. It happened last year, but this year I'm really going to strive for it not to happen again. I want to lose weight and be happy. I don't want to be a rail, but I want to be a normal and healthy weight for my height. Which means I need to lose at least 70 pounds for that to happen and if I lose 80, I'll still be happy. But I want to at least be able to give blood so 70 pounds is my goal by this September. Which, according to The Daily Plate, is completely doable. Just need faith.