Why Diet In Public?

February 2, 2009 — My name is Greg Bulmash and I am fat… not chunky, not husky, not pleasantly plump, not big boned. I weigh at least 100 pounds more than the charts say I should and definitely 100 pounds more than I feel I should. I’ve got high blood pressure, high blood sugar, borderline high cholesterol, hip problems, back problems… all of which I could get rid of or at least make a significant improvement in if I lost weight.

On top of this, I have two sons: one who just turned 2 months and one who’s running headfirst toward his 4th birthday. I’m 40. I became a dad later in life. And if I want to see and enjoy some of the landmark events in my sons’ lives, I need to not just be alive, but healthy when they happen.

I keep on telling myself I’ll diet. I’ll exercise. Sometimes I’m good for a week or two, but I fall off the wagon. I needed something to motivate me to stick with it.

I’ve been publishing a novel on my main blog and knowing that people were checking in, reading, waiting for the next chapter, has kept me motivated to do a lot more with my fiction writing in the last few months than I’ve done with it in the past decade.

So I thought doing a diet blog might keep me focused on the goal, that having people waiting for the next weigh in and status report might motivate me to keep at it, because if I screwed up, I’d have to deal with not just a disappointed wife, but a disappointed audience.

And maybe, just maybe, my experiences, thoughts, recipes, might help someone else decide to set a weight loss goal and go for it. If I can not only lose the weight I need to lose, but help some other people get healthier, then that’s freakin’ cool.