Time to Get Off the Pot

There was always this strange saying in my family when I was growing up. "It's time to poop and get off the pot." Not exactly sure what it really means but I took it to mean that it was time to do your business and move forward. Make progress. So it's time for me to poop..and make progress. As I mentioned in my last entry I am somewhat overweight. Each passing day I feel worse. Clothes get tighter. I feel more fatigued. Just an overall sense of not being happy with my weight.

So I have made my decision to make a trial run at being healthier and it scares the crap out of me. I worry that I will quit. Its so much easier to go to McDonald's everyday for my morning iced coffee and Egg McMuffin. That's a nice healthy start of 500 calories, 108 calories in that Egg McMuffin from FAT. This is not a muse (read:rant) on McDonald's. I think over my 45+ years I have been a significant contributor to their stock price. This is a rant on my own unhealthy choices. Just like guns don't kill people, people kill people; McDonald's is not killing me, my own choices are killing me. (Later you'll get my rant on gun ownership but that is for another entry).

On August 31st I will officially begin a structured six week eating program designed by Dr. Joel Fuhrman called Eat To Live (website; book). Its basically a vegan (no animal products) eating program. It was used successfully by singer Alanis Morissette to lose 20 pounds.


I think she's hot so maybe I can achieve hot as well (ok..maybe not but its worth a try). A guy has to have something to work towards.

The good Dr. Fuhrman says this eating program will help your body get to its ideal weight. Here we go, one ideal weight coming up. Watch this spot for daily (maybe every other day; maybe weekly; maybe never) reports of my progress. I'd better get shopping. Hello Whole Foods.