Ahh those famous words of Rafiki.
It is time for me to loose some weight. Now I realize you are probably thinking I should not be too hard on myself. I'm not. I think I have some pretty good excuses for putting on 10 ok 20 ok 30 extra pounds. However I realized that I don't want to look back at my Disney pictures some day and see my extra pounds. I want to look at those pictures and see a great time and a lovely family, including me. Do I care too much what I look like? Perhaps, but I'm ok with that:)
So I am planning on starting the South Beach Diet. I've helped George through it before but I've never really dieted before. That's the reason I'm blogging about it. I figure if I blog about it I will be more compelled to actually do it. In the past when I needed to loose weight I just needed to start excersising and drop 5-10 lbs. No biggie. However, recently I looked in the mirror and thought "mother of Ben and Jerry I need to loose some weight!" (Another indicator was that my maternity clothes are snug and Christin beat me in a race) So here I go, about to begin on the first real dieting attempt of my lifetime. . . tomorrow (seriously!)
As I embark on this journey do you have any words of wisdom for me?!?! Or just mean things to keep me going to prove you wrong (for example, "Hey Shannon, I have a picture of you and you look huge! Good luck with the diet!")
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I was starving and grumpy and depressed the first two weeks of this current diet, but then the hunger mechanism clicked off and it's not so bad. So my advice is to just suck it up for the first week or two (because it is awful) but keep at it because it becomes easier. If you decide South Beach isn't doing it for you and you want to do weight watchers with me, just let me know. Or, if you're at the mall and the cinnabons are calling your name and you feel weak, give me a call and I'll talk you down. We can be diet buddies. :-)
My best advice is to watch what you drink. I'm notorious for drinking too many calories (soda and juice are both very high calorie). So I drink juice with breakfast, Coke with lunch, but water the whole rest of the day. If I know when I am getting my high calorie drinks, it's easier to be good the rest of the day.
Also, if you want to eat ice cream, skinny cow ice cream sandwiches are pretty good and they are low fat/low cal.
Just a note: Slim-A-Bear ice cream sandwiches are not quite as good as Skinny Cow, but have even fewer fat and calories. (And no disturbing images of a cow with questionable morals on the box!)
Wait a minute, 30 extra pounds? If you lost 30 pounds that would put you in the low 120's. Is that really what you're aiming for? That just seems Kah-razy!!
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