Weighing In

So I am upping my diet and starting to watch my calorie carb fat protein intake. As of this morning I weight (good god this is embarrassing) 182.2 pounds. I used to weigh 168 like two months ago. My goal is to get down to 160 in time for the wedding, which realistically should be very doable. It means I have to lose 1.19 pounds a week. 

 

Today has been my first day on the diet and I already screwed up. I ate a whole wheat wrap, healthy right? NO! the contents of the wrap (turkey breast a slice of swiss cheese and two slices of tomato) were fine, its the wrap itself that was the problem I came to find out. Get this! The wrap with nothing on it was 300 calories! 50 grams of carbs and (surprisingly) 9 grams of protein. Now I don't mind the calories so much but the carbs! good god! Needless to say I would have been better of having two slices of bread. 

 

I also had a cookie this morning and for breakfast a granola bar and a banana (which by the way is the worst fruit you can eat when dieting) and two baby bell cheese wheels as a snack. It is now 3:37 I have slight head ache I'm irritable, and there is a buffet of snack food in the kitchen where I work which is NOT helping. 

 

I really hope I can finally reach a goal I set for myself. Every time I do this with dieting I never make it to my goal. Curtis will b dieting and helping me out with all this too so his weight will be going down with mine and he is going to end up getting all super hunky. (yes hunky is a work, no not honky, hunk-y)
 

Wedding Diet is ON!

So my first step to start losing weight will be to cut out soda from my diet, this includes diet soda, because they just taste gross. Now this will be incredibly easy because the only time I can get my hands on soda is at my work place and I have been trying it out for the past couple of days and I am doing fine. The only bad thing is that for once we actually have coke in the house so I had some over this weekend. That however will come to and end probably after today.

 

My long term goal with the drinking is to cut out everything but 2% milk (on rare occasion) and water. Drinking water is the main thing. I don't get enough fluids as is and I definetly need more water period, diet or no diet. 

The second step for me will be to stop eating chocolate. Now THAT is going to be a HUGE challenge for me. I am severely addicted to chocolate. I think about it every day and I eat it just about every day. It kind of disgusts me to be honest. Again most of my candy/chocolate consumption ends up at work but its safe to say there has been more than enough in the house as well. I think if I just ween myself off little by little I will be okay... but again, by far one of the biggest challenges. 

My third step will be to eat at least 1 salad a week. I think this will be easy enough. I like a couple of different kinds of salad now and I can get the dressing on the side and poof at least one healthy meal right there!

I know I am going to end up adding more to my diet plan as I go along, you know, like exercise (ick!) but I think if I lunge myself head first into all this I am just going to end up quitting it in a week. So this time around I am going to go about it the baby step way. Tiny little steps to improve my overall quality of life by making smarter choices... we'll see if I can stick it out.