Three weeks

About three weeks ago I began to seriously take a look at my health. I'm 26 years old and I weigh 265 lbs. If I look back on my weight I can see the roller coaster of loss and gain. The lowest I can remember weighing is 170 lbs back in 2002 but it's been a slow increase over the years. Like so many I've tried crash diets and exercise but nothing's stuck. I come from a plus size family with a few exceptions. My younger sister is one of those such exceptions. Since she was 10 she has been concerned about her weight and health. She admitted to me that she feared becoming like the rest of our family. At the time I felt she was a bit to extreme. I mean working out 4-6 hours a day didn't seem like the answer to me either. As she has gotten older though I think she has matured quite with her views. Now she is a certified personal trainer.
Three weeks ago I was talking to her on the phone. You know, one of those two and a half hour conversations about a number of important things. As usual we began to discuss my health and her concern for me. She started the topic smoothly but telling me that she looked up to my strength and determination in all things. However she just didn't understand how my will always faltered when it came to my own health. How could I neglect it so? Was is just a complete lack of motivation? How could she help me?
Those are valid questions. I often think about such things at night, when I'm relaxing in bed letting the day roll across my mind. How can I improve my life? What in the whole list of tasks to do needs the most attention? My health often is on that list but really between work and home how much time can I truly dedicate to the gym let alone money.
It dawned on her that maybe exercise needed to be a smaller step for me. Perhaps we needed to look closer at what I was eating first. That's when Weight Watchers became a suggestion. As she began to explain what they do to me I told her that I had just down loaded an app for my phone that counts calories and was supper easy to use. Though admittedly I hadn't used it much. She determined that 1600 calories a day should safely decrease my weight to about a loss of 10 lbs a month. Now I know that doesn't sound like much and in truth I think that's a factor for many of us. We all want to look perfect right now. We want quick results for hard work. But that's simply irrational. Sure you can starve yourself or live at the gym, and workout like a madman, but that's not going to last. Besides; your just going to damage your body and maintain old behaviors.
So 1600 calories a day with the instruction to eat a few hundred calories every few hours and keep the motor burning. She told me that we wouldn't focus at first on what I was eating so much then how much I was eating. That didn't sound to difficult. I mean the hardest part is just keeping track.
After these three weeks I've lost 10 lbs, six of which occurred in the first week. I'm going to keep going day by day, and we will see wont we.