My diet is underway

I started yet another diet two days ago. I think this makes 6, 953,023 diets I've participated in voluntarily or otherwise since being in the second grade. No lie, I was in Weight Watchers in the second grade. My well-meaning mother stuck me in a group of overweight women learning how to love cottage cheese and tab sodas. We had lots of things to talk about, me and the middle aged women. I was a pudgy nine year old topping the scales at about 100 lbs. Now that I have kids of my own I get the anxiety that must have caused my slim parents. I don't know what happened to me to cause this. My parents are thin and well as my younger brother and sister. I'm the odd man out.
So two days ago I got fed up- big time. I've had it. I'm starring down the barrel at forty years old. It happens in two months. I'll hit the big 4-0. I won't be 200 lbs at 40. No way, no how. I've been toying with the idea of a medi-fast type diet. For whatever reason when I tried to access the medi-fast website to buy a case load of their stuff I couldn't check out. No medi-fast. So two days ago, while shopping at a local mall, I decided to go into a GNC and see what they have. Lo and behold they have an MRP ( meal replacement plan) which I bought without hesitation.
For the last two days I've been mixing shakes and gulping them down and wondering what I'm doing? Is this something I can sustain myself on? To tell the truth, I don't know the answer to that. All I know is that I'm trying. I like this diet better than the cabbage soup diet and Atkins.
Nothing compares with the cabbage soup diet. That was awful! Talk about cabbage side effects!
So now, here I am, 39 and 10 months old, mother of three boys trying this diet thing again. I'm happily married to a great guy who calls me "sexy." I have lots to be thankful for and one nagging thing I want to change. My weight. Stick with me for the ups and downs and lets see where this one takes me.