Pomegranate Greek Yogurt

Cup of Fruit (Pears)

Half Club Sandwhich

2 Pickle Spears

5 Baby Carrots

Half a Grapefruit

Mashed Potatoes

Spinach, Tomato, Feta Salad with Poppyseed Dressing

3 Stalks Celery with Peanut Butter

(Kind of random stuff – can you tell I was cleaning out the fridge before we leave town???)

Greek Honey Yogurt with Granola

1 Banana

5 Baby Carrots

1 Chocolate Chip Granola Bar (high fiber)

Hamburger

Grilled Asparagus

Fried Potato Slices

A few weeks ago, WE and I set a fitness challenge for ourselves. We wanted to exercise and diet enough to lose 50 pounds as a couple! I’m ready to lose all my baby weight plus want to feel healthy and energetic again. WE is along for the ride. When we lose 50 pounds, we are going to celebrate with a trip to Hawaii!! So I’ve got plenty of incentive besides just feeling great to get my butt in gear.

A few people recently have recommended that I try weight watchers. I’ve heard pretty good things about it. But instead of paying for the peer pressure (like what comes with doing group weigh-ins) I decided to let you all (my blog readers – who are really just my close family and friends anyway) be my peer pressure. So for the next few months – this might be all that I blog about. Sorry, you’ll get bored I’m sure. But just the idea that someone out there that I know might read this will hopefully be peer pressure enough for me.

So now on to the embarrassing (they say that the first step to changing is fully coming to grips with the problem). Until the beginning of November – the most exercise I was getting was maybe a walk with WEjr in the stroller once or twice a week (which also included my weekly Saturday lawn mowing). Pretty pathetic for someone who grew up running every morning and playing soccer, basketball, and racquetball. My eating habits have gone way down hill pretty much ever since the mission…and I wonder why I never got off that mission weight…ha! I’ve done better since having WEjr – but I’ve also gotten real used to eating out with co-workers for lunch and eating out quite a bit with WE for dinners too. There are a million good restaurants in Dallas and let me tell you – we know how to pick em!

On Oct 30, I weighed 160 lbs.

My goal is to lose 25 and get back down into the ‘healthy’ range for my age/height. Since October 30, I have exercised for at least 30 minutes, 5-6 times every week. I got a gym membership at my work and have been getting up a few minutes earlier every work day (4:25am) so that I can exercise – switching between cardio and strength training. Now that I’ve been doing that for three weeks – I’m anxious to keep off the 8 lbs that I have already lost and then continue to lose about 2 lbs per week. With the exercise in place – all I need to do now it watch what I eat and then I think I can reach my goal. That’s were this blog comes in. You all are going to “watch” with me. Starting tomorrow – every day I’m going to list on my blog what I ate. If I know I have to write it down like that – maybe I won’t eat it or eat less of it.

I’m still breastfeeding WEjr but will be fully weaning him during the course of this challenge. So it will be interesting to see if/how that factors in…

Overall, I’m committed to this challenge and may be obsessive (sorry WE!) about it for the next few months. Hawaii here we come!!!