Day 143

Hello Everyone! ( aka myself and 2 friends! :-) I'm starting this blog mainly for myself, just to keep track of my journey. The name of this blog came from the fact that I had 150 days until I left for our month long Florida vacation in November. Of course, last week was crazy, and I didn't post at all, so therefore it is only 143 days now! I'm going to try to post each day, even if it is something little, along with my daily weight. I know it probably isn't the best idea for some people to weigh every day, but it seems to keep me more accountable, so I'm going to stick with it!

  Today was "day one" yet again for me. I joined a workout class that is every morning at 6am and I'm hoping to do it 4 days a week. I haven't been in a good workout routine for so long, and I'm sure that is part of my struggle with losing weight. It is going to be hard though, I have to admit. I'm working 4 days a week this summer for 8-9 hour days, so waking up at 5:30am, being gone all day with the kids, coming home and trying to catch up on stuff, putting the kids to bed, etc, is going to be rough! I need to try to make myself go to bed early every night so I don't burn out too quickly.

 Basically what I am doing, eating wise, is using My Fitness Pal to count calories, while also trying to up my protein and really lower my carbs. I don't like to lower carbs too much, but I also know that I don't need to be eating bread for every meal haha. Today I had eggs and bacon for breakfast, and chicken salad on a low carb wrap for lunch AND dinner. LOL! I was at work and so that is what I had, besides homemade macaroni cheese, which was probably not a good choice! For snacks I had a cheese stick and some celery with natural peanut butter. I feel like I did a pretty good job and I drank a TON of water. Hopefully tomorrow will go as well!

My starting weight was 210 today. ( GULP ) Hoping the first 5-6 will come off fast! :-)