About me and what I've done till now...

I'm not very good in writing paragraphs but being an engineer and having worked in IT in industry for near about 10 years I can probably try to write down "About Me" section in bullet points :)

• I'm a non-smoking, alcohol-hating, vegetarian Punjabi. Like my friends who call me a fake Punjabi most of you may not be able to relate these 3 terms with a Punjabi.
• I'm married, in my early 30s and have a 3 year old son.
• I work in an IT company or lets say that I just sit on my chair all day long and I'm lazy to an extent that I avoid lifting my hand to use computer mouse as much as possible :)
• I'm 5 feet 9 inches tall and use to weigh close to 95 Kg 30 days back.

I'm writing this blog to register all my activities/experience/urges while I'm desperately trying to loose weight so that people like me who live a sedentary lifestyle can also relate to it and don't do the mistakes I've been doing.

Before I start on what I'm doing to reduce weight I want to tell you why I'm trying to loose weight -

• I have very high cholesterol (with total cholesterol in the range of 250 to 300). I obviously want to reduce that and wish to live a healthier lifestyle (I hope Insurance companies are not reading this blog)
• We have a family wedding coming this November end and I -
• Don't want to look fat
• Don't want to buy new clothes and want to get into the same suit which I wore at myi wedding reception
• One day I was playing football with my son and the ball went under the bed. I asked my son where is the ball, little guy searched and searched and finally pointed to my paunch and said it's here. :(
• Guy who serves lunch in our company one day asked my colleagues "That FAT guy didn't come today?". I mean now people who I don't even know have started recognizing/calling me as a fat guy. What worse can happen :)
• My Wife and parents are pretty tensed about me gaining weight. My mother has started telling me all sorts of ways to reduce weight like drinking warm water before sleeping in the night, after waking up in the morning. 
• I have tendency to gain weight very rapidly. In  late 2013 I had dengue and I was 88 Kg then. By the time I recovered from the ailment I was 80 Kg. From then I've gained almost 15 Kg in year and a half which is close to 1 Kg/month (That's bad, real bad)