This is TOUGH people!! We KNOW we did not put these pounds on overnight, but the consistent dedication is hard!! Having a great reward like a vacation/event/gift at the end really helps!!
So, to help those who might be wondering how I'm going to manage these next 20 days, and the pictures will be a nice change, I am listing my typical 3 day period. In the past I would allow myself to cheat a meal on Fridays (Sam's Club pizza)...then I tried to hold out to cheat just once a month, but good luck with that when you've got 3 birthdays/4th of July/pool parties/etc going on! But for the next 20 days I am fairly certain I can make it with just one cheat....our 21st anniversary is next week, I can eat on plan at the restaurant but dh is at a business conference so we get to stay in a hotel, it's the one with warm chocolate chip cookies, now if it's not a good cookie, no problem, but if it's a good cookie...dadburnit, I'll just eat one!
Today's meals:
1/2 cup oatmeal (old fashioned kinds, no butter, no salt, no sugar, just hot boiled water and oats)
6 fresh raspberries
Snack: 10 almonds..plain no salt/nothing
Redneck caviar (mostly beans/tomatoes/onions) 1 cup serving with 5 Frito scoops.
Snack: 1 stick Mozzarella cheese
Dinner: Spinach/mixed green salad with strawberries/red onions/homemade raspberry dressing (raspberries, balsamic vinegar, olive oil)
Drinking maybe one unsweet tea a day and about 6 glasses of water.
I did level 1 and 2 of Jillian's 30 day shred today, I will do that 6 days a week, and add in 6 mile walks 4 days a week...to help prepare us for the crazy walking days at Disney...I promise we walk more than 5 hours a day at the parks!! Want to make sure my body will go go go!
That's my best recipe for melting the weight off...if I don't have beans for lunch I will have two slices of deli roast beef (for iron) around a slice of munster cheese and 1/2 an apple...I also try to get at least one source of dairy calcium in a day, either mozzarella stick or 1 cup of skim milk.
Counting down the days to weigh day on September 8th!!!