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Weight: 190

Here we go again, folks. It’s time to start anew.

Although the Silhouette Solution program worked for me for a while and was very convenient and easy to follow, it’s not something you’re supposed to do forever. Part of the program includes an “off” period from time to time, once you get to the point where the weight stops coming off.

Well, the weight stopped coming off, and I stopped using the products, just like the program stipulated. However, instead of maintaining the weight loss by making better food choices, I wound up falling back into old habits. I guess I didn’t learn enough about making good food choices during that process, or maybe it was just too big of a jump to go from “just grab a nutrition bar and go” to “plan, choose well, stock up, and prepare”. So, here I am, back on the wagon, at 190 pounds.

This time around, my focus will be on adding foods rather than eliminating them. I’ll be eating mostly fresh, healthy foods, filling myself with them, in fact. Every day, I’ll be eating fresh veggies, fresh fruits, some protein in the form of chicken, fish, nuts, seeds, peas and beans, along with some soy-based products. I may add in some protein powder after a time, but not quite yet. I want to be fully immersed in REAL food first.

My diet will also include olive oil and some less healthy choices like Scoops corn chips to keep me sane, on track and deprivation-free (I love ‘em; they’re gluten free and they help fulfill my need to “crunch”). I’ll also include various grains, but litle or no wheat for now. (The no-wheat thing may change at some point, but first I want to see how it makes me feel to avoid it. I’m giving it a month, and am already two weeks into it. I’ll report on how things go when the month is up.)

While I would love to continue taking the nutritional supplements from the Silhouette Solution program, it’s just not in the budget right now. Instead, I will be taking a daily multivitamin off the drugstore shelf. My choice will be Centrum, but feel free to choose any brand that works for you. If you can afford the higher quality complex, go for it, but if not, do the best you can.

Know this: I may have fallen off the wagon for a while, but I never stopped researching, and I never stopped learning. More than ever, I want to find the success track on getting healthy. I’ve grown tired of lugging around all this excess weight, getting out of breath with minimal effort, and looking sloppy in my own skin.

I’ve got a lot to share with you. Read on.

Everything is in place. The blog is now set up with a color scheme to match the allegorydiet.com website. I may have missed some things, but it’s a start. As new pages are added, the need for tweaking might show itself, but that’s OK. The site is functional, and I will begin adding it to search engines and slowly get the word out about its existence. I’m going on the assumption that “if you build it, they will come.”

On Friday, Nov. 13 (oooh… Friday the 13th!), I will begin following the plan developed by Jon Gabriel called, appropriately enough, the Gabriel Method. (Follow the link to learn more about this method.) I’ve read the book and watched the videos. Now and then, I’m able to catch the radio show. I’ve got the CD that came with the book and will begin listening to it daily beginning Friday evening. Each day, I will explain that day’s plan and comment on how well (or poorly) I followed it. I will provide weekly updates on my stats: weight, body measurements, energy level, health status, etc. As time goes on, it will become obvious whether the plan is working for me or not.

If you’re reading this, I hope that you will post to let others know you’re here. Ask questions, or comment on my progress. Let me know what you think. I’m jumping in with both feet, here. There’s no telling where this project will lead. As time goes on, the destination will begin to take shape, and hopefully so will I.

I’m still working out the logistics of this blog. Should I tell you my age and gender, or should I not? I wonder if it’s meaningful to the point of this endeavor. As stated on the opening page, all diets can work, and all diets can fail. My belief is that there are certain universal truths that relate to any diet. In order to prove this theory, it shouldn’t matter what gender I am, or how old or young. What do you think?