Half the Man I Used to Be

I'm James, and the Cooking for Half blog site is my personal journal of becoming half the man I used to be. In August 2007 I was 40 years old and over 400 pounds (at 5'10"). I'm not quite sure exactly how much I weighed, because my weight exceeded what the scale could measure.

Now in January 2008, I'm at 340 through the use of daily exercise and better eating. No surgeries, no hospital stays, just old-fashioned "eat less, exercise more."

I'm increasingly disgusted with American food manufacturers and restaurants. Sugar and corn syrup is in everything! I've even seen it added to cans of vegetables (yes, Virginia, how about a couple tablespoons of sugar with your serving of green beans???).

As part of my effort to eat healthier, I have decided to do more cooking for myself, and I intend to use this site to help keep track of recipes I'd like to try, report on recipes I've created, and discuss exercise strategies for those who are morbidly obese and willing to make the change to a "new lifestyle" (not a diet, but an "I must eat this way and work this way every day until I die, unless I want to die early").

If you have words of wisdom to share, please post a note to the articles. I will need to review these before they become public (to avoid spammer attacks to this site).

I wish you success!

James