Day One: three pounds lighter!!

It's no secret. I'm a round girl.


I could go through the details of how I got to be this way. I could lie and use the most cliched excuse in the book: I'm on meds that make me fat. I could say I get kidnapped and held against my will nightly until I eat my weight in KD w/ hot dogs. I could say that I just enter a LOT of food-eating contests ..


But alas, the answer to my weight is a lot less complicated. It goes like this: I like food. I eat food. Preferably of the cheesy variety. 


I'm now bigger than I've ever been in my life and in the position I've never wanted to be in: I'm the woman who got married, had kids, and am now in the process of letting myself go. And there is NO way I'm going to let that continue. I love my hubby, my kids and most importantly, I love myself and LIFE too much to let that happen! I will not become the fat housewife whose uniform is sweatsuits and ponytails and position in the house is head of the household couch!!


So my journey to my new healthy lifestyle began yesterday. I think every single one of my demons came out to play. I craved everything from diet coke and celery sticks to cream soda floats and the cheesiest pizza known to man (the kind that'll clog your bowels for a good few days)


My story is one of success. Though I was hungry all day, I masked it with lots of water - and the good thing about that was that I got lots of exercise while running to the potty to pee every ten minutes!


I gave in and ate caramel crispy minis. You know, the mini ones that come in individually wrapped portions? No big deal, you say? I ate the entire box. All six packets. Gone. 


It's a good thing, though. Now they won't be around to call my name from the cupboard whenever I have the munchies (which is about every four minutes). 


Anyhow .. all my demons were thoroughly exhausted after testing me the entire day, and even though I had a caramel-flavored setback, I didn't let it get me down. I started fresh from that moment on and kept going. And my result showed on the scale the next morning .. three pounds lighter!!


Take THAT, gooey, cheesy pizza with extra cheese. :P