1.) Fiber One brownies ROCK! The best thing about them, you eat one and you may be tricked in to eating another, but you are paying for it the rest of the day and all of the next my friend.. Seriously, they must be packed with fiber.
2.) I am not perfect and this isn't going to be an overnight change. I will still cave for a 770 calorie sandwich from Arbys with a few of the kids's fries and a Pepsi. But then I will have to sit down and type it into MFP. I could lie, and just "forget" to put it in there, but my body DOESN'T forget I ate it, so there is no reason for me to hide it. It is what it is and all I can do is do my best to make a better choice next time.
3.) I started to run, and I think I may like it. Now, I should tell you that, when I say "run" I am using that term VERY loosely. It all started last Thursday after my pump class. Scott and the boys were in town still and I was home, I decided I would just walk until I met up with them, little did I know they weren't going to be leaving where they were for another 20 minutes. But I started walking, and then I told my self I could jog from one telephone to the next. From then on I walked one telephone poll and then jogged one. It was ugly, and it hurt. It also hurt my ears from all my gasping for air and fat flapping and bouncing. So the next day, well 2 days later-- I couldn't move the next day, I dug out my ipod and went at it again. Cranking up the country music to drown out the flapping fat for a whole mile. My friend's house down the road is exactly 1/2 a mile, so there and back is a full mile(duh.) Even more amazing?? I actually might like it. It only takes me a 1/2 an hour, and there are no kids, and no one calls me mommy. It feels like a grown up thing to do be doing and I think I like it.
4.)Breakfast is so important. I skipped all last week and only lost a pound. So this week, I am starting every day off with some breakfast!
5.) I am down 8lbs since I started. I am planning on weighing myself on the 10th to do a monthly check in. I am hoping to be down 10lbs by then!
6.) My other favorite snack food, has been Skinny Cow Moocha ice cream bars. They satisfy my caramel frappe craving and come in at a nice 100 calories. I'm telling you they are my favorite 100 calories of my day!
Now I am leaving you with a bible verse that has been my motto throughout this journey:
Hebrews 12:11
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.(NIV)
