New Year - Diet?

Time for that New Year diet. I’ve managed to put on quite a few pounds over the past year. I successfully quit smoking at the beginning of last year (actually I quit in February of 2004), and have been gaining weight ever since. My weight is back up to the point that it is causing other problems like heart burn, elevated BP… So it’s time once again to go on a diet.

Now I’ve had pretty good luck with diets in the past. Many years ago, I was up to my current weight and did the slim fast diet. I dropped from about 220 to 180. Then about 4 years ago I was back up to about 210 and went on the protein diet. I drop back down to 180 and joined a gym and got down to 170 and was in excellent fitness. For whatever reason, I slowed down and stopped working out and then quit smoking (yes I would leave the gym and light up) and next thing you know it’s four years down the road and I’m squeezing in to 38 waist pants again. So what is my goal…. I’ve not yet decided, but optimistically I would like to get down to 180.