Day 1.

 It's been a "thing" in the back of my head for a while now, but until recently, that's where it stayed.
Over the past weekend I found out how much I actually weighed. Let's just say, I was surprised, more so than I should have been.
 I am a large man, and I knew I was overweight, but as to how much over I was, I liked to keep a guesstimate.
Some facts to start us off.
I work two jobs, Friday - Monday are my usual shifts. I am a chef at a nursing home F-M and W, and I am security at a bar F and S nights.
I am 42.
I weigh (as of last Saturday) 409 lbs.
I don't want to weigh that much, so I am now in the process of doing something about it.

I started a couple weeks ago without realizing it. I decided it was time to quit drinking sodas, I stopped going to fast food joints, and I quit buying frozen pizzas in bulk. (that really was the hardest)

Today I did a little research (as I will tomorrow and as long as I need to) on different weight loss techniques and diets and blah blah blah. ad naseum. So far I have decided that the best way for me to do this is to do what worked the first time around (I went from 325 down to 205 in a little over a year). Watch calorie intake versus calorie output. Oh, and a little exercise wouldn't hurt either. lol

So for now (things will change as I become more active and lose weight) at a light activity kind of day (which is what I call a normal workday if I don't add exercise or something else into the mix) to keep my current weight I have to have an intake of 3350 calories a day... ouch. ( it jumps to 3900 when I add exercise)
For me to lose weight healthily and steadily I would need to cut my intake in half and should be able to lose a steady 3 - 4lbs a week. Even at only 2.5 lbs a week, that comes out to be 130 lbs in a year. My ultimate goal is 200, If I can go lower and not look emaciated I will keep going, but I know 200 looks good on me, so there it is. At 2.5 a week, by the middle of June of 2014 I will hit goal. But I will have to keep it to a very strict course.

Today I did good at an intake of 2000 calories, and I can already see where I can make improvements. Within  a month I should have this down pat and flowing smoothly. Tomorrow will be day one of the walking, by the weekend I hope to have T - Th as days I walk, F - M as days I follow along with an exercise dvd. Sweatin' To the Oldies! lol
 I have already and will be taking pics of the process, but don't know if I want to show them just yet. I will decide tomorrow.

And to those of you joining me on this journey, I thank you.