Motivation...

   287 pounds. 11 pounds gone for good. So it has been a week and a half since I made my committment to a better me, a better life and a better family and here are the things that have been working for me. I started playing little mind games with myself and thought...oh I will start this when I start Spring Break...it is going to be too hard to do it during my last week at school...and then I thought...HELLOOOO!!!! You are doing it again! So I committed to eating better and doing what I know works for me and that is cutting out all simple carbs. I brought my George Foreman grill to work and started grilling a chicken breast every day for lunch along with a bag of fresh broccolli that I steamed in the microwave. My major bugaboo is always breakfast...and since I am out the door before 6:30 most mornings...my go to spot is always Jack-in-the-Box, where I order total and complete badness at 6:50 every morning. Well I went there anyway and asked for a side of eggs and a side of sausage...along with my diet coke of course....and my food was only $1.60. Can you believe that?? So that is what I am sticking with. Of course I am changing it up so that I don't get bored...but right now when I am in a hurry I know what my back up plan is.

     That is what is the most important part of all of this...planning. So I am losing weight and holding on to more cash. :) Which is never a bad thing ;). This week has been easier...I am hitting my stride with this and falling into my old routine that is all things good. Lots of fresh food, nothing from a package and I am feeling fantastic. The bloat is gone. I am going to the gym and enjoying it. I am also reading the Hunger Games, which makes an hour on the elliptical feel like 20 minutes. I navigated the candy filled Easter weekend with ease. I am lucky that I am not typically a candy girl. I think peeps are disgusting...and give me a cadbury egg and I am heading for the hills. But peanut butter eggs....now you got me. But I was able to focus on the goal at hand...go out with two different families and navigate their buffets with ease. The old Jenna would have said "it's the holidays...just indulge," but this Jenna was able to keep a logical head.

    My co-worker, who is a tri-athlete and wakes up at the crack of dawn each morning to run 6 miles before work, asked me one day if all the fast food that I eat makes me bloated and gassy...I told her no. I was quite sure that was the case, but I see now how it was just another lie I was telling myself about the food I was eating. Being off the "junk" for a week and a half now has proven that to me.

See you at the next weigh-in ;)

~Jen