CDCC Start

I'm SO excited to be starting this challenge!

My starting weight: 258
My goal weight for the challenge: 235 (23 pounds in 14 weeks)

I save too-small clothes that I like.  Not all of them.  Just the favorites. They represent me at weights all the way to 100 pounds thinner than I am now.  A few years ago, I went through all of them and paperclipped a piece of paper with what my weight had to be, and then organized them in, maybe 2-3 totes by weight.  There was the 150-200 tote.  The 200-220 tote. The 230-235 tote.  My goal is to go into that 230-235 tote and pull out that pair of Tommy Hilfiger jeans that make my butt look great and shimmy into those bad boys.  And the velvet jacket.  In fact, I'm going to see if I can do it now and get a starting picture.  Hang on.

Here's the jacket and the pants.  I can put both on, but can't move my arms forward, and can't sit down.

Here's a side pic with the muffin top and the bootay.


I'm going to use MyFitnessPal to track my calories, 1370 per day, using exercise to earn extra calories if I want to eat more.  I plan to blog daily (or at least most days).

I think I'm going to use Radical Self-Care for Weight Loss for Life by Alice J Brown.  It's about looking at core beliefs and learning how to take care of the self, thus removing the need to eat so much.  I just bought the last copy from Amazon.


I plan to do 30 minutes of exercise a day of different exercise, walking/jogging on the treadmill, walking the dog, weightlifting on the machines or with free weights, or a DVD (step, pilates, Jillian Michaels shred, or Power 90).


I drink 60 ounces of water every day now, and I'm going to try and up that to 96 by filling my big tea cup with water after I've finished the tea and drinking it down.


I think that's all I need to post for today?


Sooo - I walked in a 5K yesterday.  My work wanted a sea of company T-shirts at this thing, and several people said they'd be walking, so I signed up, thinking that a group of us would walk it while chatting, something I've done with a prior company.  At the last minute before I left the house, I grabbed my earpieces, which is a good thing because when the horn went off everybody started jogging/running, except for a few of us (and nobody I knew).  All the walkers race-walked faster than me, so I came in about 3rd from last.  Ugh.  What a wakeup call!  I'm annoyed, mostly with myself because it was a race after all and somehow I thought it was going to be a leisurely walk.  I didn't think I was THAT out of shape, but come on - almost last?? I came in after people pushing strollers, after people I thought were heavy.  One of the only guys I beat was walking with a cane.  Again, ugh.


Then I went to help my old fire department get ready for a rummage sale next week.  They invited me to a turkey dinner today, and we ended up grocery shopping at Aldi and WalMart.  Yeah, so, it was mid-afternoon and I got some cheesesticks and General Tso's chicken at the WalMart deli, and ate SOME of it.  When I put it into MyFitnessPal, it was incredible how many calories that was.  It wasn't all that tasty either, and made me feel a little ill.  Calorie total yesterday - 1900.  The only thing that saved me from yesterday being terrible was that hour of walking I did in the morning.


My plan for today's turkey dinner, which will have mashed potatoes, turkey, stuffing, and macaroni and cheese is to stick with turkey and potatoes.  I'll let you know how it goes!