Days 28 and 29...1 to go!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen....I have arrived!  One last day tomorrow!  Ok, really, I'm going to go to Sunday, but officially, only one day.  I really can't believe it's almost over.  And....as of this morning, I've lost 8.5 lbs!  Maybe God just wanted to see if I'd stick with it to reward me.  For like 20 days I had only lost between 3-4 lbs.  Now, I've lost 8.5 lbs.  I'm kind of nervous to brag about it because I'm afraid when I get on the scale tomorrow that I will have gained some back.  After I weighed myself this morning, I reset the scale and weighed again just to be sure.  Phew....same number.  Maybe it's my realization of the 340 calories in the muffins.  Maybe it's me just paying more attention to how much food (no matter how whole the food is) goes into my mouth.  This burning more than you eat is a novel idea.  I mean, it's the most basic piece of nutritional advice you can get.  I learned that in 6th grade from Coach McCord in Health.  The truth is, we all know the answer.  We all know what to do.  We always have.  It's no secret.  It's no special diet.  It's about having self control.  It's about not eating crap.  It's about caring about yourself.  It's about believing you are worth it.

Inspired?  I am.  At least today.  I can't tell you how I will be on day 43, but I really hope I can remember how I feel right now.  I hope I can remember how it felt for my once too tight jeans to be a little too loose.  I hope I can remember when I resisted cake on cake day; when I resisted pizza at Napoli's, when I resisted the tortilla chips at Cinco.  I hope I can remember that I can be strong and that no one is forcing food down my throat.  All those feelings are so good.  They all build confidence.  The feeling of confidence lasts a lot longer than the taste of a chocolate chip cookie.  It's so worth it.  While I'll probably modify my eating a bit from the Paleo diet, I really want to continue eating clean.  I want to continue eating whole foods and watching my refined sugar intake.  If you know me, you know I love sugar and I was an addict.  If I can do this you can too.  Just start tomorrow.  You don't have to wait until Monday.  You can start immediately.

Ok, enough heart to heart.  That's a little much for me.  Today was good.  I knew I couldn't work out because I had youth group tonight.  So, I ate a light breakfast; just a banana.  I snacked on almonds.  For lunch, Anna, who's on my team, is in from Las Vegas so I took my team out to lunch.  They chose Hibachi.  I cheated a little....I had the chicken lettuce wraps and I'm sure the chicken had Teriyaki sauce on it.  Not a bad cheat, but a cheat.  I'll be taking points off for that.  The good news is that the portion was pretty small.  Also, the crazy chef kept trying to give me the extra fried rice.  I had to say no thank you 3 times.  So I think I did pretty good.  Before church I had a muffin.  Yummy.  For dinner I had turkey and guacamole.  Oh, and at church, I gave all my girls Airheads.  The Airheads actually came from a ginormous box that Tracy bought for me from Costco because I love them.  Apparently, I hid them from myself and I found them the other night and knew I had to get them out of the house.  So, I gave them to the 7th grade girls.  Their parents are probably hating me right now.  Of course, they each had about 5 instead of just 1.  But I had none.  I had leftovers so I gave them to Kiersten.  A total win.  A good day.  One to go.

So, until tomorrow....