Day 2

Today was my first day to work out and track my calories and steps with my Pedometer.  I just slipped it on the inside of my boot today and I just walked and walked with my every day routine.  I wore it to work, where I walked 2995 steps in 4 hours and burned 164 calories.  I know it might not seem much or like nothing, but lets just say at the end of the day, I walked roughly 18,700 steps and I'm not sure about the calories, because it restarted at 15,000. 

My consisted of 3 eggs and orange juice 
Drank water at work and ate an apple
Work for 4 hours
Ran some errands and went to the grocery store
Weighed in at the YMCA
Came home cooked dinner, (pic below) or made dinner, there was no cooking
Went back to work for a couple of hours 
and then worked out for about 30 minutes
then, I came home and ate a bowl of Raisin Bran with a banana


The meal that I made at dinner was made of a head of lettuce, can of corn, can of black beans, cilantro, 2 tomato's, bell pepper and a special dressing that I made, that consisted of 2 scoops of Mayo, Greek Yogurt, Taco seasoning, and Ranch Seasoning.....
It was DELICIOUS!!!!  My grandpa even complimented on it.  I didn't have time to cook chicken, but I went and got some water and Chicken Breasts at Sam's today that I can cook and put with it.


I also bought this little notepad that has a calendar in it so each day I can write what I do or what I eat.  I'm not saying I'm going to write down each and every thing or even tell you guys what I do, but I was so pumped today.  I know not every day is going to be like this or even easy, but I just feel like for the first time, I'm doing this RIGHT!!!

I'm doing this for ME!!!!

I can proudly say that I weighed in today and I lost 6 pounds.  My goal was 80 pounds, but that honestly is hard to try and keep up, so I originally wanted to weigh 180-185 pounds.  Im setting my goal to 185, which now leaves me to 73  more pounds left.  I weighed in today at 258.4.  It kinda makes me nervous putting my weight on here, but HEY, this is my journey and sometimes the truth hurts.  There it is!!!! 

I can proudly say that I believe my highest weight was 286 when I was married, so Ive come down almost 30 pounds since then.

I'm not going to push myself to a breaking point at the beginning, so I am starting off slow.  I'm focusing on eating right, eating at the right time, eating the right proportions, and working out.

I have to admit that I wanted to stop alot of times when I was walking today at the Gym, cause I could feel my legs tightening and I didn't want a cramp, but I kept going....if I needed to slow it down, I did.  If I needed to not have such a high incline, I put it down.  Once I started feeling better I would up them and push myself.  It was only a 30 minute workout, but it was good for the first time!!!

I'm proud of myself!! :)  If I can do this.....ANYONE can do this!!! You really just need to have the mindset of what you want and just try and reach that goal.  I know I'm going to have my bad days and moments and want to indulge.  I haven't gotten there yet, because of course I just started, but I'm sure Ill know what to do when that time comes, or just beat myself up later!! 

If you want the full recipe to my meal today, just let me know!! :)