Day 345: Baby Steps

Today is an accomplishment of sorts to get to the end goal of this whole blog. I am now one size smaller than when I started the blog. Okay, maybe not since I started the blog but since I graduated college. The only thing I've done to lose weight is change the way I eat. There's really been no exercise until this past week. It's encouraging to see any sort of progress. Makes me want to stay on track. Because while it is just one dress size, those can add up over time and become a huge difference. I'm two dress sizes away from being at a place where I'd feel comfortable, then about three dress sizes away from being at my goal. So taking it one dress size at a time is easier to look at. Right now I'm going to aim for losing one dress size a month. We'll see where I'm at by September.

It's not like I'm easily in this dress size either. The jeans are more snug that I'd like but I think it's better to be in tight jeans than my super loose jeans. One, they give me shape. My other jeans made me look bigger than I was, they were droopy drawers (say that with a southern accent, makes it funnier haha). Being in tighter clothes, you're more aware of what you're eating because you'd like those close to eventually become loose. That's my goal by the end of August, if I'm not a size smaller, I'd like to have these jeans become loose on me. I think it can definitely happen now that I'm actually adding exercise into my schedule.

I've found that I really love the walk I've made around my neighborhood. I looked on a website tonight to see how far it is that I'm walking and the walk is about 3 miles. So it's a good distance. No just walk around the block sort of thing. One thing I love about this area is how friendly the people are. Everyone says hello or waves when you walk passed them. It's an active place and it's nice to be apart of that.

I'm leaving for Seattle friday for my annual family reunion. I know I'll be eating a lot of junk and drinking probably so I'm trying to go super healthy this week with what I eat. I've become a Trader Joe's snob, ha, not really but sort of. It's my favorite place to shop. I don't even really go to other stores. Today I was wandering down an aisle and came upon thai yellow curry in a bottle! I haven't tried it yet but tomorrow plan on it. It looks just like the yellow curry I get when I go to thai restaurants.

Sundays have become my prep days for the week. I try to get everything ready that I'll eat all week. I made brown jasmine rice tonight. Cut a bunch of vegetables for salad. My eating plan for this week is:

Breakfast:

An apple

Hard boiled egg (still need to make those, my mom knows how to make them perfect and I'm waiting to hear back from her)

Lunch:

Turkey wrap (I got another tortilla type, have to comment on that tomorrow)

Carrots

Popcorn

Snack:

Clif bar (they were on sale and I realize at about 4 o'clock I get hungry at work so this should tide me over until dinner)

Dinner:

Salad with red/orange peppers, sugar snap peas, mushrooms, tomatoes, and cucumbers (so excited to eat that, I love vegetables)

Chicken with a cup of brown rice and some of the yellow curry sauce

Overall, I think it'll keep me interested enough to not get bored. The more vegetables I add to a salad the more I love it. It's fairly balanced too with protein, starches and fruits/vegetables.

I should get to bed to be rested for the week. I worked the weekend shift so tomorrow is day 8 of straight work. This next week will be a little tough! I'm going to weigh myself tomorrow to see if I've lost any pounds or body fat, hope so!