FOUR!

So I didn't want to obsess with the scale...but I knew after two days that I was the same today would be the day of a change. Down 16 lbs! Only 4 more lbs til TWENTY!!!! Which is my first goal!

I keep getting many many messages about OMG, what are you doing...or what are you eating? This is what I'm eating.... Always eating breakfast is key. Don't have to be anything huge. Like a yogurt, some grapes. A banana. I mostly eat chicken and white fish. The specific kinds of fish is Swai, Cod, Salmon, Talapia. Those kinds are less "fishy". I season them with lemon pepper, or last night I tried crusted Paramisian. Wow, Yummy! I try to make sure that half my foods are vegtables. I find them to be more filling. I do some raw fruits each day. I have some black olives or olive oil for good fats. I drink at least 64 oz of water. Yesturday I was reading up on caffeine and how that effects your diet and water intake and that depletes your water that you drank and water is what is flushing everything out. Not that I won't have coffee with some breakfast or kill my Captain and Coke. That is not something I would do, but limiting it to special occassions like strawberry cheesecake...yes. I do have steak or porkchops once a week. I also have my meatloaf sometimes, because that is one of my favorite things and there isn't a bunch of bad things in it. Hamburger, ketchup, egg, onion....I just try and make it an appropriate 4 oz. size. I don't eat sweets alot anyways. I just make sure I don't buy alot of things that would tempt me.

As far as activity wise: I try and go on a walk each day or do arm weights. My girls love playing outside on the sidewalk chalking. Now that they are masters on their bikes, they want to ride all over town. I need to invest in a new bike. I sold my old one. I have some Jillian Michaels DVD's and also some others. So I am going to start working on those and incorporating those more. I know my body will tone nicely. I gain and lose weight pretty evenly. When I was always working out and in high school. I was very toned. So I hope I can get that way again.

As far as my goal. I should hit it right before my run in Omaha!

Thanks for all the positive comments! I hope this helps with all the questions!

I will post this on my blog and Facebook link it

I think talking about my experience has helped others already, even from other states which is pretty awesome. I always loved my job being a weight loss counselor. It's not like I didn't know what I was doing, I was just not choosing the right lifestyle with foods and just being in a major slump.

A new me is on the way..........THIS GIRL IS ON FIRE!