Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you!

SO. After sitting down and thinking long and hard about my plans for everything, I figured out a solid plan for my weight loss.

I am going to buy a 365 day planner and write out what I'm going to do each day, for how long, etc etc. I'm going to take one picture every week and write down my progress. I got a little bit of spending cash for Christmas this year, so I'm going to use that to buy the planner and a scale.

Each Monday, I'm going to write down my progress. I'm going to write down my weight, measurements, pulse etc. This way I can easily track my progress without getting too impatient.

I've been told to do this before, yet I've never really done it. It's kind of perfect, considering the 1st is on a Monday. It's the perfect day to start. Realizing that my biggest problem was, indeed, impatience, I decided that this method probably would be best. Regardless of how impatient I got in the past, I think I've disciplined myself a lot over the past few years with it.

With this planner, I'm going to fill up each day with workout routines that I've picked off of pinterest and a couple of other sites. I'll designate days for each section of my body I want to work on and end each of them with a walk, letting the walks get steadily longer and longer the more fit I get.

I figure Monday can be my belly and chest day. Tuesday could be leg and ass day. Wednesday is arm day. With some cardio and Yoga in between.

I've never thought this thoroughly on any workout plan in my life. EVER. I've even gone so far as to plan out ways to stay off of soda. I hear tell that drinking warm water with honey, lemon and cinnamon is a GREAT way to detox and jump start fat burning and metabolism. I decided I can start each morning with a glass of that and drink LOTS of water throughout the day. Which I never do really. My husband drinks so much soda, I get tempted by that every time he has one. BUT if I'm already drinking a lot of water and filling up my belly with that, I won't be so tempted to suck on the sugary teet of the soda bottle.

With portion control, I'm going to take my mom's advice and use smaller plates for myself. There's a psychology thing she read that says filling a smaller plate tricks the brain into thinking you're eating more. This will do fine with my brain even if I know what I'm doing. It's worked for me in the past, I just need to stick with it.

With things like bread (which I eat waaaaaaay too much.) I figure I'll only have it once in a while to start and eventually find alternatives. This isn't an easy thing to do with the budget we have but I'll make it work.

I've already kind of started trying to be better, even around the holidays which is almost impossible. I didn't have my usual 2 plates of food. I stuck with one and didn't even want to finish THAT. I was kind of proud of that. Even if I did have a little bit more on the plate than I should have, I still felt good about not finishing it all and that I didn't go beyond that one plate.

As for everything else, I'm still trying to work out a system for that. I figured I'd tackle this first since it's my immediate goal. I'll post the weekly pictures and measurements and everything to track my progress here and not just in my planner. That way if anyone ever does decide to stop by this blog, they can go along with me for the ride. I'm very excited, but trying not to get my hopes up too high that it'll happen overnight because I know very well that it won't.

Wish me luck!

I hope you all had a safe, happy holiday!