A new start...

If you look to the right you will see a new addition to my blog.  It's a weight loss counter from My Fitness Pal.  I joined a couple of weeks ago after I talked to one of the boy's teachers about it.  This is the first day I have actually used it though!  I am on a mission to lose weight once and for all and this is the first step.  I have a handful of friends on there and I think that will help me stay on track.  I am going to get Jake to join too so we can work together.  If you are on there and you want to add me as a friend my user name is shelly329.  

My short term goal is to get the eating down for a couple of weeks.  I want to cut out my caffeine and cut way back on my sugar.  In the meantime I am going to get Jake to help me get the treadmill un-buried from the garage and into the house so I can start using it again.  I also have a couple of DVD's and a Wii Fitness Game that I need to break out (or find if I am telling the truth) and I can use those to break up the monotony.

Here is how I started today.  I cut up a lemon into thin slices and put it in a pitcher full of ice water.  I have only gotten through 1/2 of my 64 oz so far today, but I will get there!  This is always a hard thing for me, I just don't think about drinking water most of the time.  I do drink way too much diet pop though so I need to work on cutting that out and replacing it with water.  Or I need to make myself drink the same amount of water as the pop and that may make it easier for me to get rid of it completely!

I have recently discovered a quick and easy meal that is really quite filling.  I toast a piece of whole wheat bread and top it with a fried egg, Laughing Cow cheese wedge and roma tomato. I have been using the Garlic and Herb flavor of LC cheese, but it would be good with all of them probably.  I just happen to really like the garlic flavor.  I have been eating this for dinner or lunch, but it would be just as tasty for breakfast.  I need to work on varying what I have for breakfast, I tend to have a really high sugar breakfast and I need to find something quick that's actually healthy for me.  I also need some eating out options too.  I think that we will be cutting way back on the eating out once the kids are home for the summer though.  I do know that I won't be getting my favorite Chinese food anymore though.  I want to eventually start cutting back on my carbs and start eating more fresh.   I need to do some research on that .  I really wanted to have a garden this year, but I don't think that's in the cards for me at this point.  It's something that takes more planning in advance than I thought to do this spring.  Eventually I will get it all worked out in time to actually have a garden some summer!

Well, I better get off here for now so I can get the kids wound down in time for bedtime!  I am getting my roots redone tomorrow and I am thinking that I may put some pink streaks in it so I am super excited for that!