So far so okay.

These pictures are of my body as of today, didn't have anyone help me take them so they're a little off but even as I'm sitting here now, I do not want to post these. I feel like all that is, is me looking like a chubby, self conscious girl. And maybe I am but I do not want to be anymore. I weighed myself today I am 152 pounds. Now that might not see like a lot but it's the most I've ever weighed, and I made my goal weight to be 122. I want to lose 30 lbs by April 21st. That's 90 days, give or take, from now.

 I learned about the 17 Day Diet on Good Morning America, it's cycles of 17 days with different foods in them and different ways of adding healthy foods into your life. I have the book so it helps me figure out what I can and cannot eat and some guidelines of how to eat at every meal. These first 17 days are called Accelerate. You eat very lean meats, veggies, yogurts and fruit but not after 2 p.m. because fruit is a carb. Another thing I am concentrating on is not eating so much cheese. Those of you who don't know, I get migraines when I eat too much cheese, and by too much I mean more than 2 slices of pizza cheese. I can have one slice of cheese on my sandwich, preferably yellow American and cottage cheese. But anything more than that, it's in bed for days and getting sick that night. My parents have learned not to make anything with cheese for me and add their cheese later. But cheese is also a fat and hopefully by really limiting or eliminating it I won't have so many headaches and lose a couple extra pounds.

With my diet, every morning I need to wake up and drink a full glass of hot water that has half of a lemon squeezed into it. It's supposed to stimulate your digestive juices. And including that glass of water I am to drink 7 more glasses by the end of the day. So that's constantly have a bottle or glass of water beside me at all times, hey if that's what it takes. 

Today didn't start out the best, totally didn't accomplish my goal of setting my alarm for 7:45 and not hitting the snooze button 10+ times. Yeah slept on and off until about 9:20. Scrambled but managed to find myself a nice enough lunch; chicken salad, two clementines and an apple. So I left without making any coffee as well, and I just need my coffee in the morning. So I stopped at McDonald's for coffee, they have the best deal for what you get. And they also have this new oatmeal, fruit and maple as well as new apple cinnamon walnut. I decided to try to fruit and maple oatmeal. Now I know what you're thinking, McDonald's?! But they have promoted it as under 300 calories and it's not a gigantic portion size, it filled me up completely and wasn't bad either. Then when I got home, it was work out time. Time to see how P90X was gonna go. Today was Chest & Back. Lots of push ups, LOTS of pull ups. Started off strong but then quickly realized how out of shape I was. Around 12 minutes left to go in the workout, I was doing more god awful push ups saying in my head "I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this." But 5 years ago I could do 100 push ups with no problem and now I can barely do 20. I now see that I needed help badly and I'm glad I am doing this. At the beginning of the workout DVD it says; Decide. Commit. Succeed. And that is just want I wanted to do. I have decided to make a change, and committed to it, and hopefully with a positive outcome.P90X is not easy, it's definitely the most intense exercise DVD I've worked out to. But with the results that I have seen and heard about, it has to be doing something right.

For dinner, I COOKED yes this is maybe the second time I've cooked for myself since college. I got some chicken tenders and added some spices, some garlic and parsley and really anything that you would like. And fried it up in a skillet. I also had broccoli and carrots steamed. With my diet you can eat as many veggies as you want! So I am going to try and always have some carrots or celery in my lunch now so I can snack on them if I need something. I also added some pasta sauce, Delgroso garden style. Delgroso sauce is gluten free and delicious! AND it's less than $2 at giant eagle! And to drink, water (shocker there). I can also have green tea. Usually I have to have a lot of food to be full, but with my dinner tonight, I ate all of my food and felt full without feeling bloated. Even now sitting here, still full. It's the broccoli, love broccoli. 


Thinking about the day makes me realize what a long journey I have ahead of me. Lots of struggle and maybe at times laziness. I usually get on these exercise kicks and then quit after a week. But I just cannot do that this time. This is the time it's gonna work. This is my time. And I hope you guys out there realize that this is your time too. This is your year to make one time count. And I'm making my count right now.

I hope you girls just like me out there are making a change or headed towards that direction. I know that you can do it. So many of my friends have said things to me about how proud of me they are and that means so much to me. It makes me keep moving forward. And I don't want to disappoint any of you. I am doing this for you as much as me. We can do this together.