A New Start

October 20, 2009 - 198 lbs

How the heck did this happen, I have been hovering close for a while now but to step on the scale and know that 200 lbs is here is not so cool. At only 5'3" it's downright dangerous.

I'm a believer in living and eating what I like, why should I spend all my time eating what I'm supposed to not what I want? It doesn't make sense to me to deprive myself of something simple and beautiful like food. I love to cook and I love to eat and the thing is it's all about real food. I don't want or even like prepackaged foods, in fact it's a bit of a joke because my husband knows that if we buy something prepackaged it will most likely wind up in the garbage a few years later. A few exceptions, I like premade crackers, ice cream, phyllo, and puff pastry, cookies and chips and dip mix. And that's about that other than that I'd eat everything from scratch in my house. Total reversal when it comes to restaurants; which I think is part of the problem. Also love to eat out, would much rather not have to worry about what to order and again feel like I should be able to eat whatever I want not the smartest choice.

With two small kids to set and example for (and a 5 year old girl who just told me that I was fat today) I need to revamp and revise what I'm doing. Not cool to be doing what I'm doing in the moment and really can't handle the idea that the scale will offically tip 200. So here we go I'm going to start small, just writing down what I'm eating and how I'm feeling. From there I think I'll be better able to see what changes I need to make and where I can make them. So really this is for me, here we go....

Day 1:

Feeling - I have a cold and working from home, not feeling great, deadlines, procrastination and a sick kid at home too.

Food -

Breakfast:
Starbucks Apple Turnover
Starbucks Grande Vanilla Latte 2% milk

Lunch:
Cheese String
1.5 cups Plain Yogurt with 2 Tbsp Brown Sugar

Dinner:
1 piece of mozzarella
1 piece of Pizza - peppers, sundried tomatoes, kalamata olives, mozz and parmesan

water, water and more water... that's normal though. I do drink a tonne of water.

So that's it... Day 1

-CeeCee