It's Come to This

Hello blogesphere!! Not a huge fan of these things but I think staying organized will keep me honest. I also think letting my friends kick me while I am down will inspire me. I think that the only people that read this will be my friends and family, but hopefully this will be something for me to look back on after a successful journey.
If you cant tell by the title this is a blog about losing weight. My road to fatassness started in 2002. Growing up I was a relatively skinny kid. I come from a family of skinny fit people. I grew pretty quickly and got to my current height of 6 foot 2 by about 7th grade. I entered High School at around 170 pounds. I found football and started lifting weights and graduated at about 200 pounds and in "good" shape. I played football in college for two years and maxed out at about 225 pounds. I was in the best shape of my life and was a gym rat. Due to bad grades I had to quit football and it all went downhill from there.
I switched schools and moved in with 2 then 3 then 4 of my close friends, and a few more that were a few hours away. Looking back I think I can attribute my weight gain to 2 main causes. 1. I continued to eat the portions that I could get away with when I was playing football. When I was playing ball going to In and Out and getting a 4x4 animal style was something I never thought twice about. Unfortunately I never stopped these eating habits and it caught up to me. 2. UMMMMMMM......Drinking!!!!! I had a lot of spare without football so I filled it with alcohol. Living with my friends didn't help matters, but I don't regret a second of it. With all the drinking and bad eating it only took me about 8 months to go from a fit 220 to a flabby 255.
To be honest I really didn't notice my weight at first. It took a friend calling me a fat ass for me to even take notice. Since then it has been 6 years of yo-yo dieting and failed attempts to establish a workout regimen. It has been a very frustrating journey with way more lows then highs.
I am trying to loose this weight for all the typical reasons (better body to get healthier), but I also want to loose the weight because of the profession I am about to enter. In May God willing I will be completing a nursing program and will hopefully be employed shortly after that. I have already noticed during clinical the strain that my weight puts on my knees, back, and feet. Losing this weight will make me a more productive nurse and hopefully prolong my career.
It took me a while but I think I found a program that is going to work for me. The P90X program by beach body has been recommended to me by friends and seems to be getting good reviews online. With my busy schedule being able to work out at home was important. I purchased a pull up bar that hangs in the door frame along with a set of adjustable dumbbells ranging from 5-52 pounds. This is a 90 day program that uses muscle confusion to get your body to work harder and burn more fat. Unfortunately I started a little late and my graduation date will be on day 75 of the program. I am going to try to get as much out of this program as possible until I graduate. I have said this a million times but this is the time I finally lose the weight and keep it off. The package came today and I watched the info book and read through the diet plan. I plan to go shopping on Friday and start the program on Monday. I will post my routine and food journal every day, and throw in a little commentary from time to time. I plan to be honest on this blog and if I screw up and drink 20 beers you will hear about it. So lets get this party started.