Day 1 of the battle

Welcome to my new Blog about my battle with losing my pregnacy+stress = extra weight!  I am writing this because I would like to share my journey of this battle with others. We all know losing weight isnt easy and there are days I will want to give up and my hope is if I get it down in words those feelings will leave me.

Obseity runs in my family and I am determined that it will end with me. I want so much more for my girls. My mother was just diagnoised with diabetes and has a range of other health problems do to her weight. It is heartbreaking for me to see my mother struggle with all of this and I see my life going down the same road if I dont make a change.  I put my girls and my husband before me in everything I do, it is time for me to make me a priority! My family is only healthy and happy if all of us are healthy and happy. 

First off my life is a little different the average woman trying to lose the extra pounds, I am an Army wife.  Trying to lose weight with stress is practically impossible so conquoering these stresses will come up a lot in my blog please feel free to ask questions about them and I will do my best to answer them as best I can.

Sunday was actually day one of the "new me" I stopped drinking Pepsi (my addcition) and finally proved to my wonderful husband he is my enabler. He isnt home much so when he is home he wants to make sure Im happy, I dont fault him its not like I said "no dont go". With this new found freedom for me I start on a journey to get back to a healthy happy weight. 

Monday was the first day of my new work out schedule Monday, Wednesday, Friday I would like to walk/run my hope is over time I will be able to run but at the moment I run for 1 minute and walk for 2 minutes for 20 minutes. Tuesday and Thursday am doing Billy Blakes boot camp fat burning cardio.

My eating habits have always been ok its the portion control as well as to much of the extras. So now I am being more dilagent in my portion sizes and leaving out most of the extras. I am not cutting them out completely because then Ill beng on the chocolate, ice cream, cookies, and whatever else sounds good. But for now till I get my routine down and my eating habits extablished Ill be cutting them out.  They say it takes 28 days to break a habit, so for the first month Im going to cut them out completely.  This will be the hardest for me because I love chocolate!!! 

If you have noticed I am not calling this a diet this is a lifestyle change!  It can not be a diet because those end and then you gain all your weight back plus some. No this is a lifestyle change to be healthier, happier, and making sure my girls have a chance of have a thin healthy life as adults.

So my saying for myself today is Food is for energy not for comfort! 

Just remember you are not alone in this battle we are all battling something in our life whether it be weight, smoking, drinking, and whatever else you can think of that is an addiction.