10 pounds

One of my christmas presents from Allison was a month gift certificate to Karate. I had been wanting to go back for some time, I haven't gone since we got married. I used to go often before that day. I am a Black Belt in Tang Soo Do/Tae Known Do and have been since I was 10 years old. I started karate in 1979 , but haven't been back for 5 years. These were 5 long years or at least it felt like it after the first 2 classes back.

I decided to use this gift as a way to lose weight. I have cut back from about 10 sodas a day to only one, as well as, cut back on sweets. I didn't want it to be a diet I couldn't stick with so I didn't change my eating habits too much. So I went back to karate on January 3rd and decided to weigh myself on 1/12/06, boy was I surprised at how fat I actually was......230.5 lbs. Holy crap, I knew I was fat but I didn't think I was that fat. So I started weighing mysel about once a week sometimes more. I am going to try to keep the blog updated with my results basically so I don't forget my weights. So here are my weigh-ins so far:
1/12/06 - 230.5
1/17/06 - 231.5
1/22/06 - 230.0
1/23/06 - 229.0
1/26/06 - 227.0
1/31/06 - 223.5
2/06/06 - 220.5

So it's been almost a month and I have lost 10 punds. I realize that isn't a bunch, but my goal wasn't to lose 20 pounds in a day. I would like to lose 1-2 pounds a week consistently. I think that i more realistic and doable. So far, so good.