Removing the Stigma of Being Fat

Okay, this post's title is a little misleading. Not only am I not capable of removing a stigma from being fat, I don't necessarily want to. I just thought it sounded good. However, this blog's title is not misleading. The reason I wanted to start this thing is to broadcast to any who are interested my path to achieving a healthy weight. I don't want to take on a radical, fad diet/workout plan, because if I do it won't last. I want to radically change my life through incremental (re: achievable) goals.
A couple weeks ago, I sat down and made three goals: no more than four Cokes a week (down from who knows how many), no eating after 9 PM, and smaller portions when I do eat. (I know the last one shouldn't really count since it's completely arbitrary and somewhat hard to measure, but this is my thing so lay off.) Provided that I kept to those goals, I was set to start a workout plan (also incremental) and add to the diet goals. I kept them.
The next plan was to start weighing myself weekly. I know the pitfalls of a weekly weigh-in can bring. I know that while keeping to a diet and exercise plan weight can fluctuate as I lose fat, gain muscle, occasionally falter, and so forth. I know that it can be demoralizing to remain faithful to a plan only to see the needle on the scale tick up. The weekly weigh-in is not so much a motivation. It's principle purpose is to provide a measurable progress bar, where all verdicts are held until a reasonable amount of time has passed. While the weigh-in is not a motivator, this blog (and Twitter and Facebook) are.
Once a week, I will post my weight for that week on my widely-read Twitter account (that I set up today) and my personal Facebook page. Every month, along with the weekly weight, I will post my total weight loss since the start. Publicly announcing my weight (especially at the particularly weighty beginning) does seem at once extremely vain, presumptuous, and foolhardy. Still, it is necessary.
Without getting too philosophical, we are all vain. Vanity stems from the consuming-desire for praise and love from all who surround us. While declaring personal accomplishments provides the declarer a certain level of contentment, public self-shaming can also provide that. It can certainly motivate. That's my intention with all of this.
My goal is to lose an average of five pounds a month, so that in the next year I will have lost 60 pounds (which gets me within reaching distance of my ideal weight). I want to be better prepared for when our little one starts to walk and run, so that I won't get winded chasing her around the house; and, so that chasing her around the house doesn't become a chore, but a joy.
Each week, after I've posted my weight on Twitter and Facebook, I will make a little blog post about how I feel about my progress, any tweaks I'm making in the plan, etc. Then on Sunday I will make a post about my health (diet/exercise) goals for that week. That's not to say I won't post more (hey, nobody said you had to read); I just won't post less.
To get this week started on the right foot, here are my goals for this week:

• Cut down to no more than three Cokes a week (this will be in place for the next two weeks).
• Eat fried foods only twice.
• Workout twice (slowpitch softball does not count).

Each week's goals will be in addition to the previous weeks' (unless I'm modifying or improving on a previous one).