Week One Journey - Good and Bad

Week one started on 10/25/09 and the first 3 days where brutal. Severe headaches was the worst part, and the stop of "grazing" during "meals" was the hardest habit to conquer. Although I never felt hungry, I continued to want to put food in my mouth between meals. I never did, but caught myself opening pantry closet and refrigerator. I kept myself motivated with the scale plunging and that helped me stay in control. The first 5 nights was a continual run to the bathroom. I was not a big water drinker, but am getting my water in now. With this plan, you need to eat 4 - 6 meals a day, so I made it a rule that I need to drink 16 oz bottle of water before each meal (that included the first meal as well); so by mid afternoon, I usually have the water that is required consumed for the day. After that, it is just a plus. I do believe that water helps keep the carb cravings lower. I am taking vitamins and supplements on this plan to help with that issue as well.

I lost a total of 7 pounds in one week and that was a motivater for sure.

Week 2 suggests that exercise be a part of this program and I have yet to begin, so I really need to get going on this. I am so aware that exercise will help speed up the weight loss, but I really have this mental block on it. I can think of every excuse not to exercise. I am by far not a lazy person, I work full time, have a huge house that I keep clean, am on some capacity on 8 different organizations, trustee for our subdivision and help my hubby on his political world (he is an elected official in our city). I know I have to take the time out of the day for "ME" time, but that is hard for me to do.

Week 2, Day 4 and no weight loss this week. That is depressing, but I will keep plugging along and maybe this aspect will FORCE me to get into an exercise plan. If anyone reads this and has a suggestion on how to motivate me to exercise, I am all ears. More later.