Things to remind myself: This is a journey! I've been working on improving my health and my fitness for almost exactly a year now. The difference is really amazing. I feel so much better! But, I still have work to do. Now is not the time to grow complacent. My original goal, was to be back at my starting weight (or final destination, whatever feels right) by the time Olive is 2 years old. That will be May of 2015! That's completely obtainable, if I actually stick to it, and do the work, I could reach it by Christmas, 5 months early!
Plan of the Day:
Morning: (already done)
Coffee with real cream - just back away slowly, I was up much of the night with Olive.
Isalean Shake - Creamy Dutch Chocolate
Ionix Supreme - come on body, winter is coming, get that immune system on alert
Ageless Essentials for Women (AM pack) - this is a little packet of vitamins and supplements, there is an AM and a PM pack, I'm just taking the AM pack one day, and the PM pack the next so it will last twice as long. That's cheating. I'm Ok with that.
WATER - I've already drank about 20 ounces. I often forget to drink water. Now that I've given up diet pop (except for the occasional treat) I sometimes forget to drink anything at all. I decided a couple of weeks ago, (and a month ago, and the month before that) that I'm really going to concentrate on this goal. First off, I want to start making sure I'm drinking at least 6 regular 8 ounce glasses a day. Then I'll increase it from there.
Lunch:
Isalean Shake
WATER!
Snacks: Not sure yet, but I'll try to keep it "good" . WATER!
Dinner: I'm planning to make spaghetti sauce today, but I'm not sure if I'll get to it.
Water, Water, more Water.
Evening: OH! This is the hard one! Ok, full confession, last night after dropping a package off and the post office at Shoppers, I bought some Ben & Jerry's. It was delicious. Half of it is still in the freezer, and I totally grabbed a spoon at 2:30am when I was trying to get Olive back to sleep.
Movement? Well, Honestly, I don't think I'll be getting a real workout in today.
BUT, I'm counting housecleaning, because I still need to vacuum the stairs, and with our beast of a vacuum, that's really a workout.
We aren't making it to bible study, because Olive is getting over a cold, is teething like crazy, and was up much of the night (See above comments about coffee, and 2am ice cream).
We have a school lesson to do this morning, and I need to fit in my own bible study. I'm behind of the women's bible study. Bah!
That right there, with three kids at home, is a full day. Actually, it's likely more than a full day. Something will likely slip, but I'm going to try. I'd better stop droning on, and go do something.
Here's my "before", I'll update with a current photo sometime this week. This was taken last June, at my heaviest when I was still trying to breastfeed Olive and couldn't cut out anything or instantly lost supply. It felt like crap to be that overweight, but looking back, I'm actually pretty happy that I just focussed on feeding Olive, and decided to worry about the weight later. I wouldn't change that, she's beyond worth it.
Note: Apparently...I don't know how to hit "publish" so this is out of order. :)
Update November 2015: I did it! I had totally reached that goal by May of 2015. In January of 2015 I joined an awesome group, and we went to town on the healthy habits. I started getting up at 6am every morning to exercise, and worked more on healthy meals for the whole family, and continued with Isagenix. GOALS ACHIEVED!
