So anyone reading this blog knows that I lost almost 50lbs with Weight Watchers and have been following it pretty well since then. I've been at goal for about 2 1/2 years and obviously it's never something I regretted doing. However, since I started working, I have been slacking on the nutrition/exercise front. Exercise is just not something I want to do when I get home from work, and going to sleep early so I can get up and do it in the morning is not so fun as well. While this could all come from not having a gym membership and having somewhere to go with a routine, I know it's because I lost most of my weight from just eating well so I always have that to fall back on. All that would be perfectly fine if I still ate the way I did when I was losing weight. Snacking, at work and at night, are killing me (literally) and something needs to change. I'm already joining Chuze Fitness ($10/month, woot!) in August so that will help with the exercise, but I need something new for the food side of things.
Here's where one of my dear friends comes in. She told me about "The Skinny Rules" by Bob Harper and how it's helping her to lose weight. It's been 6 weeks and she's already lost 20lbs. I purchased the book this morning and I'm already through a majority of it. The book is basically a series of "rules" that Bob has for eating (he follows the rules as well) and the idea is that if you follow the rules you'll lose weight and be healthier. A few of the rules will be hard for me like no sweeteners, no carbs after lunch, and cutting back on refined flours and grains. All of those are staples in my diet right now, but really I'm more curious than anything else to see how it effects me to not have those anymore. All in all I think it's something I can do and I'm looking at it as a challenge. Much like learning the points system with WW, learning these "rules" will be a new experience and at the very least it'll help me to eat better which I never learned with WW.
To keep myself accountable with all this, I'm going to use this blog to keep track of it. Once a week, I will post my weight and I will try to post what I eat. Keeping a food journal always helped me before so I will be using this blog as a way to scratch that itch. I am in a wedding in December so this will help keep me the size I need to be.
All this won't be starting for another couple weeks though. We're going to Menucha (yay!) this year and we leave to drive up to Oregon on Thursday after work. I could start it now but then I'd be at Menucha where I have no way of knowing how the food was prepared. It'll be easier to wait until we get home and I can cook for myself. I will be starting a few of the rules right away like drinking a glass of water before every meal and drinking a glass of water within 15 minutes of waking up (oh and the no sweetener policy too).
so there's that.. which is nice.. so I guess I'll see you all when we're back from vacation and I start my healthy new lifestyle.
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