It begins

This is the beginning of a journey that is about 6 years in the making.... and 35 pounds later. Not that the 35 pound addition has come without good things. I got married, had a baby, and am enjoying life. I would just like to do it a little lighter. I will be using this to journal the journey. I am going to jump start it with a 6 day jump start - that really tries to step up my metabolism. It will hold me accountable to how I am doing each day. Both my feelings and what the scale states at the end of the journey. My Long term goal is to lose 35 pounds which will get me out of the obese BMI and back into the normal range. Short term - want to try and lose down to 8 pounds in 6 weeks - which I think is do-able. The start date is Monday november 12 - so here we go.