Being Me! Being Fat!

Yes I am fat, very fat! Fatter than most people who ever read this blog will ever be. 162kgs (357lbs) at the time of writing this (i'm 6'4" so I can carry it a bit, but not as well as I used to :-). The thing is, I know how to lose weight.. What I mean is that everyone knows that to lose weight you have to eat less calories than you expend.. but most people, especially people in their 40's (like me), know that in practice it isn't really that simple. I have a fascination with all things to do with health and diet, i have read hundreds of articles and books and I've tried every diet out there. The thing is.. I think I have the answer, I think I have the key, but still putting my knowledge into practice is still darned hard. Anyway, the purpose of this blog is two-fold. One is to chronicle my daily struggle in my attempt to lose weight (and invite others to do the same, maybe we can support each other:-), the second is to impart some of the extremely interesting, useful and informative facts I have learnt along the way about why it is so tough to shed those pounds!