14 days can change your life...

I have been doing the slim-fast diet for two weeks now.  I am down 7lbs in two weeks!  That is way better than I have every thought I could do.  I still have my splurges, but I try to limit it to one day a week and then the rest I go back to being strict on my diet.  I have also been walking 3mph for at least 30 min each day no matter what.  I do get tired but I am feeling better about it.  I want to start to try waking myself up an hour earlier and getting a morning workout done as well as my afternoon one.  That will give me an hour a day of exercising and they say anything is better than nothing.  I am down to 247lbs!  That is almost 10lbs down from when I started this blog.  I'm not sure if blogging about it is helping with my determination or not but maybe I can change something for someone else out there.  Maybe they will decide to day is the day I will change my life.  Day by day is the only way to do it.  Although I have a goal of being down to 220lbs by December, I only take my diet day by day.  With the help of myfitnesspal.com app on my iPhone I track my daily calories and exercise.  That has been a huge help for me.  You don't realize how many calories you are consuming until you see them listed out for you.  If you don't lie to yourself there you can learn that eating ONE cheese stick has 100 calories!  I know.  It's unbelievable, but before I was tracking my eating habits I would eat a hamburger with 4 or 5 cheese sticks.  That meal alone was worth what most people would have in an entire day.  My body has had that for so long it doesn't know what a good meal should be so with the help of that app I am now eating what my body should have, not what I want.  Give it a try... add me as a friend (morguejunkie), and we can do this healthy living challenge together!