Day 1 - I DID IT! (- 4.8 pounds)

Yesterday was very challenging for me. I started the day off craving SWEETS! I thought to myself, "Oh NO, not this soon". I tried to fight off the craving, but, to no avail I was succomed by my own weakness. I drove to the grocery store and intended to get something sweet, but I forced myself to get what I needed.

This is what I purchased: Green grapes, Black Grapes, Bananas, Pomengrante Blueberry Juice, Pineapple Mango Juice, Cottage Cheese, 2 lbs of Yoplait Plain Yogurt and Strawberry Apple Sauce.

I was so tempted to stop on an aisle that had this new kind of little debbie cake. It is like a chocolate dutch cookie, topped with a big marshmallow and all covered in this white chocolate. O-M-G. I think I stared at this box (which was marked down for Easter by the way) for about 5 minutes. I looked at the calories, I looked at the fat, I looked at how many servings and I found out that it had 300 calories approximately per cookie/cake. I tried to reason with myself, thinking how much I could work out to get rid of that, but I figured it wasn't worth it finally. Whew! I did, however, come up on some gummy bears. Hey, I figure gummy bears are like 0 fat calories, I don't look at the other calories (for this time anyway). So I hurriedly put them in my cart and zoomed to check out.

Unfortunately, I ate EVERY SINGLE gummy bear. :( I know, I suck. I also didn't eat breakfast yesterday because I didn't have any breakfast food (basically I did, I just was feeling REALLY lazy yesterday). So, I didn't eat breakfast at all. It is crazy though because I didn't feel hungry at all througout the day. I guess after all those gummy bears I shouldn't feel hungry huh?  For dinner, I ate about 10-12 Shrimp (non breaded kind) and potato chunks (about 3 small round potato balls). And that is all I had to eat yesterday.

But, after I ate dinner, I went to the gym and worked out for approximately 72 minutes. I walked / jogged on the treadmill for 60 minutes and I did 4.20 miles. I try to do ATLEAST 4 miles in one hour. When I worked out a lot, i used to run 3 miles in 35 minutes. So I am inching my way back to that, slowly but surely. After the treadmill, I sat on a huge ball and did 60 situps (hurt like hell) and 20 side bends on the ball (hurt equally like hell). Then I did 20 ball pushups (I thought my stomach would fall out).

Ball pushups may not be familiar to a lot of people but I will explain what they are. Basically, take one of those huge work out balls and put it on the side of a weight lifting bench. Place your hands on the bench and prop both feet up on the ball until you are at a perfect straight line. Then start doing your push ups. You have to work harder at these because you are working out your abs by balancing yourself on the ball while doing the push ups. (If you do it right you will know and feel it on push up number 3).

That's it for the first day. I hope I do well for today, I really want to meet my goal. Or atleast lose half of that. Which ever is fine with me!

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WEIGHT LOSS SUMMARY:

Day 1 - 165.2 pounds - 59 days remaining

(-4.8 pounds)
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