Weight Loss

This week marked the first week of trying to lose weight, which according to Rachel couldn't start until I started to write down everything I ate during the day to see exactly what I was consuming. Talk about a way to scare someone skinny. After five days of consuming my normal diet, I have come to the conclusion that I'm eating an entire days worth of food for two people. No, I'm not pregnant, more like I was consuming close to 3,500 calories in a day. Ugh...

Today is my last day of eating completely unhealthy, mainly because it's the Super Bowl and I cannot justify eating salad and yogurt during the game. Instead, we're are going to finish off the last of our yummy Amish food that we purchased on Friday night (rotisserie kielbasi, Cajun crab meat dip, salmon cream cheese dip, and pretzels) and I will be eating extremely healthy starting tomorrow. Goodbye cookies, hello pears, apples, and yogurt (among other healthier foods).

Of all the foods I'm going to miss the most are my cookies. I wish I could eat cookies every day. In fact, I would eat cookies for breakfast (in a bowl with milk of course), cookies for lunch (in sandwich form) and cookies for dinner (Oreo cookies with a side of Chips Ahoy and Vienna Fingers). I would have to get my nutrients from other sources, such as Vitamins (preferably cookie flavored) and of course milk has lots of Vitamin D in it (I think).

Of course, this isn't a perfect world and while I could justify eating cookies all day long, all those cookies have tons and tons of calories, which will make my gut look even bigger. My gut is a magnet for calories and chubby-rubbyness. Zonks insists that my midsection is her personal kneading pillow, complete with chunky thigh pillow.

I'm throwing all my business out here because I am not ashamed since I have finally come to terms with the chubbiness. Over the course of the next nine months, I'm going to sweat till I drop, cut my consuming in half, and hopefully enter the summertime looking like a very different person. Of course, that will be an added bonus, since the ultimate goal is to drop all this weight in time for my wedding in November.

Instead of looking at the large picture and becoming extremely overwhelmed, I've decided to set myself some mini-goals to motivate me through this project. I don't care how many pounds shed off my skin, I want to be able to fit into some very important clothes.


Monthly Goals

• February - Able to comfortably wear the new blue shirt that I had bought for Meredith’s wedding (woops)
• March - Able to once again button the buttons on my amazing blazer
• April - Drop at least one pant size
• May - Able to comfortably wear my red checkered shirt that no longer fits me
• June - Confidence to go to the beach in a tank top
• July - Drop at least one pant size and a shirt size
• August - Drop at least one pant size (rewarded with Back to School Shopping)
• September - Able to comfortably wear my favorite T-Shirts that Rachel stole over a year ago
• October - Able to wear the dragon shirt that I bought for Jackie’s wedding (woops)
• November - Wedding Day