Pumped!

This week has been pretty good so far...other than being ridiculously sick all day Sunday (my son's 24 hr bug got me good!) I've got a couple pretty good workouts in and my eating has been perfect. Definitely craving some chips and/or chocolate tonight but I made myself walk away from the cabinets. I decided I'd treat myself and have my yogurt with some 'lite' cool whip tonight...unfortunately when I got it out I realized I bought it at Christmas (don't judge me!) so I had to throw it out. So I froze the yogurt instead and am having 'ice cream'. Luckily the cravings have passed.

I'm feeling really good about this process. Usually when I have tried to focus more on my eating and cut out a lot of the foods I know are hindering me I get really frustrated and I can never seem to make it more than a week or two. It has been almost a month and I really feel like this is my life...not a diet, not a temporary thing, not something I'm doing until I hit a certain weight. I definitely think that starting to eat meat again has helped me immensely...I get so excited to have a salad with chicken it's almost funny. It doesn't seem like a diet. Which I guess is the goal!

One thing that helps me so much is to read other people's success stories and see their pictures. There is an abundance of pages on facebook and blogs out there with the stories of people who have lost tons of weight along with the pictures to prove it. I eat that stuff up. Especially when it is someone with a similar story or who started at the same weight I did. I saw a picture earlier this month...it was a side by side of a girl at last New Years and this New Years. She was a totally different person! THAT is going to be me. I picture myself in my own side by side picture...thinner, stronger, healthier...changed. THAT is what I think about when I want to raid the fridge, when I want to cancel on my trainer, or drive through McDonald's. I have made the decision that this year is the year I put an end to the struggle. This is my year and I will not look back.