My old skinny photo that I’ll be using for motivation

It’s not too early to make New Year’s Resolutions and start it now instead of waiting for January 1st to begin. Mine is always the same since I never had accomplished mine. This year will be different because I WILL accomplish my goal of losing weight!

I realized I’m not going to lose weight magically and by not losing weight now will only make it more difficult for me later if I continue to gain weight. Believe me… I love working out! It’s just hard to get the motivation to work out and go to the gym. I need to remind myself how awesome I feel after a good work out to encourage me to go to the gym. Eating is the problem for me. I’m really picky when it comes to food. Everyone who knows me will know this is very true.

I was inspired by Tricia to start this with a small goal of eating right & exercising for 21 days straight. She did it after hearing that it takes 21 days to make a habit and fortunately for her it worked! I will work out for 21 days straight from Monday, December 28th to Monday, January 18th. When January 18th comes I won’t give up but I’m not going to worry about that right now since it’s easier to focus on the small goals right now.

Tyler and I did our grocery shopping yesterday and I came across a lot of Lean Cuisine meals I’ve never seen before and bought enough to take to work for lunch this week. I’m anxious and excited to do this! I updated my weight loss page and will be weighing in weekly. Tyler bought me The Biggest Loser game for Wii so I’ll definitely be doing that video too and hoping someday while I’m doing it Bob will come knocking on my door!

Here’s to the beginning of my journey with the amazing support & help from my parents & Tyler who always will go to the gym with me in a heartbeat.

“Stop being a moron and start getting skinny! If you can’t take one more day of self-loathing, your ready to hear the truth: You cannot keep shoveling the same crap into your mouth every day and expect to lose weight.” – Skinny Bitch

Friday night I dragged Tyler along with me to Blockbuster to get my hands on Twilight and poor hubby was the only guy in line. He felt better when he saw some guys secretly waiting in their cars until midnight. We stayed up and watched the movie… of course the book is always better!

Saturday we went hiking and it was almost 90 degrees! I was already on my 3rd water bottle in 20 minutes. At one point I felt dizzy so we stopped for a bit until I was ready to go again. We both enjoyed ourselves and I think we’ll be hiking more often now.

I tried waking up early this morning to go work out and I woke up at 5AM with a bad headache. This week I am back on the Slimfast diet for lunch only. Dinner will be either grilled chicken salad or grilled chicken with veggies every night this week. I will be going to the gym every day this week after work starting today. Amy told me I need to cut back on my Diet Coke addiction. I’ve agreed I’ll cut back on my daily intake to 2-3 a day this week.  We’ll see how I do this week.

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Our futon/couch is falling apart. Soon enough we’ll be sitting on the floor on the mattress. This means we need to buy a new couch but it won’t be until after we buy a house this summer. As they say, “Get off the couch” to exercise and lose weight… I guess it’s a good thing it’s falling apart.

Tonight for dinner we made tortilla pizzas…

- 99% Fat Free Tortilla (120 calories)
- Prego Spaghetti Sauce (20 calories)
- Low Sodium Mozzarella cheese (50 calories)
- 100% Pineapple Tidbits (20 calories)
Total: 210 calories

We need to go grocery shopping this weekend to stock our fridge and make it colorful with veggies & fruits! I’ve lost some pounds this week. I know I forgot to update my weight chart page and I will this week.