Day 1.

Some of you may or may not have heard that I am starting a diet. I finally got tired of looking and feeling fat , and being so out of breath every time I climbed the stairs for church. I decided to change that. I also got a little tired of my parents telling me "oh this or that will change if you just lose weight." As if I didn't already think of that. Anyways. I'm not playing the blame game. So as a new years resolution I decided that I wanted to lose at LEAST 15 pounds this year. While I was online Monday night looking at what the ideal weight for me would be , I found the slimfast diet. It's there 3-2-1 diet that let's you have 3 100 calorie snacks, 2 of either their shakes or meal bars , and 1 500 calorie dinner. You also drink 8-8oz glasses of water a day and exercise for at least half an hour. I figured i could do that easier than anything else mostly because I have no problem cutting back on eating and it's exercising that's my downfall. I must say I did pretty well today. I had my shake for breakfast , my 1/2 cup of corn for snack, shake for lunch, 1/2 cup corn for snack... that's when my trouble began... i was CRAVING a burger. So my loving and supportive boyfriend helped me look at ALL the nutritional facts for our burger joints. Guess what? I can have tons of the burgers at McDonalds. Just not the big mac or the most popular ones. So we drove to a Mickey D's and picked us up some 410 calorie Double Cheeseburgers. I promise you no hamburger has tasted better in the entire world. What a nice boy. I've also inspired him to eat healthier. Sort of. We bought Jello for our snacks ( well my snacks , I don't know if that was his reasoning. Well I do. Kind of) because the sugar free packets ( which are good) are 40 calories for a BOX. He also just got ONE double cheeseburger although he told me that 3 is his perfect number. ( did i mention that our 2 only cost like 3 bucks, which means that I can get one for about a dollar.)That's when bad things happened. I ate my last helping of corn and I was super hungry. Gregg commented that I still had roughly 60 calories left over that I could eat. SOOO... Tim , his roommate brought home extra arbys. I ate that. Then immediately regretted it ( That's a good sign right?) but before then as we were cleaning his room , I ate the rest of my taco salad from the day before. I also kept finding candy in his room and ate that too. I FELT HORRIBLE. I told him next time he needs to stop me. Guess that means i'm going to be working out EXTRA tomorrow. Boo. I'm really proud of myself though because i didn't eat NEARLY as much today as I usually do. Plus i'm downing a LOT of water. Which I don't usually do. So even though I didn't follow my diet to a "T" today , I feel really proud of myself. I think as long as i'm making the effort i'll improve. Anyways , I'll give you guys the updates as they come. Did I mention that my pushing Gregg to clean his room helped him find his wallet? I don't believe so. Let's just say I had Gregg very grateful to have me around. I'm such a good girlfriend. Plus we decided to try our hardest to not make such big deals out of everything. Which yeah is going to require more work on my part than his , but a little effort from him too. So here's to us improving our lives!!