Day One

12/28/09
The begining of my new begining! Corny I know but I am practicing my "positive thinking" here! :) I believe all my previous attempts met with less than success because I reversed the proverbal "look before you leap". Due to this fact, I strategized for the past 2 month and feel a sense of peace that this plan is more likely to meet with success than any previous...the plan is threefold:
1. Faith in Christ and reliance on His promise: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
2. Following the lifelong eating plan outlined in "The Metabolism Miracle" by Diane Kress. She has a balanced and wise plan for my "Metabolim B"...it was encouraging and brought hope back to my heart since I thought I was the only one with this metabolism!
3. Exercise...beginning gradually and eventually 5 times a week for at least 1 hour.

This blog will be my attempt at accountability since, I travel nearly 100% of the time and keeping routine schedules and contact with people is always a struggle.

Day One:

I started the morning excited and literally shaking with fear!
Breakfast was scrambled egg and I started my 32 oz bottle of water.
Snacked on some chicken breast lunchmeat about 2 hours later and made it 3/4 of the way through my bottle. Lunch was pecans and a cheese stick because there is NOTHING in the house. So, I finished up work around the house and got myself semi pulled together to go shopping. Threw a mozz cheese stick in my coat pocket and went out into the cold. We just had a blizzard here which is why I haven’t gotten the food in that I needed. I copied most of the MM page regarding allowed foods so I am prepared. I was inspired to stop and Curves and join…hope it’s not too much too fast but they have an awesome New Years deal and I think that being a women’s gym and a national franchise it will eliminate the two main barriers I have had to exercise. That was the MOST depressing thing ever…I have all my stats written down there so, for now, I will not repeat here but I plan to get a copy of the measurements…one that I do know is the weight and it is the highest it has ever been in my life (thank you ever so much Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners). I am weighing in at over XXX and I want to die. I plan to Google addresses for the closest Curves to all my facilities. After Curves sign up, went to Wal-mart and it was c-r-a-z-y out there…what was everyone starting a diet? I guess we all were just locked up with the blizzard and itchin’ to get out of our houses. Anyways, the parking lot was FULL and a mess with lots of piles of dirty and melting snow which was creating large puddles. My parking lot angel was looking out for me though and I was able to get a close space. I know, I know, I am supposed to park out and walk but not until these puddles and snow clears! Shopping was the pits and I started to feel really sick while in there…headache, shaky and extremely cranky. By the time I got home with all my items, I was ready to chew someone’s head off and my poor sister and dogs bore the brunt of my insanity. I tried not to chew them up completely but my responses were definitely clipped and my patience thin. I cooked up chicken breasts rubbed with buttermilk ranch dressing mix and my sister fixed up a big pot of cauliflower. It was the best meal ever and I took some Ibuprofen since my headache was getting much worse. Finished up my mandated 64 ounces of water too! So proud of no so lil’ me! LOL The next 3 hours were filled with scrapbook activity and I completed about 8 pages of Christmas pictures until I was so tired and shaky I went to bed with a small snack of chicken lunchmeat before bed. I completed most of the requirements except for the 30 min of physical activity and the supplements but I am working on that…will start that next week is the plan and will try to get the supplements started later this week. I need to buy a few of them but most I have….good night!
PS: For the curious, I will post my stats soon so you can watch my progress but will probably do so in inches until I can gain enough courage to post the actual #’s.