The "D" Word - Day 1
Okay, so... diet time. I weighed in at 177 at the doctor. I'm 5'9", so I'm not a whale or anything, but I'm definitely pudgy, especially compared to the awesome shape (for me) I was in when I started at college and was doing karate with Feral. I'm not happy with the way I look right now. So now I have to actually do something about it, damn it all. So you guys will get little posts about it when I do really good and really bad. I'll do this not because I think y'all care but because I need the accountability of people damn well knowing when I fuck up and when I accomplish things. Even if you all just skim over the entries and don't read them. I'm okay with that. As long as I think there's a chance someone might, I'll still be better about it. Our goal (Wes and I) is to each lose 20 pounds and then take it from there.
Still financially strapped until next month, so the plan for now is to cut back on portion size and try to cut out the bad for us kind of snacks and eat healthier as much as possible. The next step when we have the cash will be to find exercise classes we can do or get memberships at the gym at the school if I still work there or something similar.
Tonight we had salad, rice, and some breaded chicken for dinner, and I've drunk all water today except my one Mountain Dew. And, yes, I could cut out a lot of calories and sugar and whatnot if I stopped drinking it altogether. But I won't. Gotta give a girl one vice. And I'm only allowing myself one soda a day, so if I want something else, I will have to forgo it for the day. Exercising will be the hardest thing since I'm bad about it if I don't have someone else doing it (used to exercise with mom, then later with Feral), and Wes works such long hours right now that I understand him being too drained to be terribly motivated. But I'm going to try to do good on my own too. I did some sit ups and crap tonight - not a lot, but certainly better than nothing.
And making an exercise-related icon counts, right?
Still financially strapped until next month, so the plan for now is to cut back on portion size and try to cut out the bad for us kind of snacks and eat healthier as much as possible. The next step when we have the cash will be to find exercise classes we can do or get memberships at the gym at the school if I still work there or something similar.
Tonight we had salad, rice, and some breaded chicken for dinner, and I've drunk all water today except my one Mountain Dew. And, yes, I could cut out a lot of calories and sugar and whatnot if I stopped drinking it altogether. But I won't. Gotta give a girl one vice. And I'm only allowing myself one soda a day, so if I want something else, I will have to forgo it for the day. Exercising will be the hardest thing since I'm bad about it if I don't have someone else doing it (used to exercise with mom, then later with Feral), and Wes works such long hours right now that I understand him being too drained to be terribly motivated. But I'm going to try to do good on my own too. I did some sit ups and crap tonight - not a lot, but certainly better than nothing.
And making an exercise-related icon counts, right?