Day 2

You never know who is watching you.  When my daughter and I arrived at the Y this morning at 4:55 there was a gentleman who said, this is day 2.  Then he said, you know do it for 23 days straight and it will be a habit.  Well, 30 minutes of hard Cardio is what the checklist is today, the first thing we did was the Treadmill for 10 minutes, then 10 minutes on the Rowing Machine, and we finished it with 10 minutes on the Elliptical Machine, by the time we were 3:00 Minutes into the Elliptical I was quoting scripture.  I can do all things through Christ strengthens me.  By my Coach’s description of having a good work out is if you feel like you can’t take another step you left it all on the gym room floor.  So I definitely had a good workout.  The working out is the easy part for me not a problem I will work hard and I don’t mind that I am putting in the time so I might as well give it all I have.  My problem is with the nutrition and drinking the water.  Then again Rome was not built in a day.  We are on a very tight budget and it’s hard to feed a family of four the way we need to eat.  I have adopted the motto that there is no backup plan.   What I mean is that if I don’t have the right healthy foods that I desire that something up healthy will not do.  Drinking soda is not an option no matter what.  So yesterday we had poptarts in school, this morning cereal but the kids had a choice of Froot Loops and Frosted Flakes.   So they knew that what they get is 2 fruits they had an apple and a pear.  So my next step is to start taking their breakfast and lunch to school.  For lunch soup and a croissant with cheese so they had soup without the sandwich and since I work with them I ate what they ate.    A lady at work said, to start carrying raw veggies like cucumbers, tomatoes, celery, carrots, or bell peppers.  I think that is an awesome idea.  Then I didn’t eat until after Church which was a sandwich from you know it Subway which was a quick way for me to get everything in.  I need to have a variety of things in my recipe box my problem is I have no imagination in that area and I am looking forward to adding.  My problem is evidently I don’t know how to eat healthy evidently that’s what got me to over 300 pounds for over a decade now.   By the way my first goal is to get less than 300 pounds that will be a glorious day everyone all over the state of South Carolina will hear me shouting.