UGH!

Well, yesterday didn't so well. I planned to start my diet plan yesterday but that didn't happen. For breakfast i had a small bowl of cereal (so far so good). For lunch i was planning on eating a whole wheat sandwich (consisting of ham, no cheese, tomatoes, and lettuce, and NO mayonnaise), but instead my friend to me out to sushi. I had the California roll with the spicy tuna. That was yummy. But when i got home, for dinner i was going to have a salad with grilled chicken and some water (i'm having a NO juice ban, i already don't drink soda). But that didn't happen. I had some rice with chicken. (BTW, every time i make a blog, at the end of the blog i'm going to put up a meal plan for that day. It's going to be different every day). But even though my day didn't go as planned, today is a new day and i'm going to make sure i stick to my plan today. I found that what helps me alot is every time i eat i make sure to brush my teeth. I know that seems a little weird, but it actually helps. By brushing your teeth after you eat, you do a couple of things:

1. When you brush your teeth you take the taste of your food out of your mouth. Without the taste your not tempted to go and get another helping of what ever you were eating (i don't know if that makes sense any!).

2. When you brush your teeth, it leaves you with a fresh feeling and a lot of times food doesn't taste so good after you brush your teeth. So, it makes you eat less. And if you brush your teeth you wont really want to eat either.

3. BONUS. If you brush your teeth after every time you eat, your mouth wont stink, and you will have beautiful, white teeth!
I won't guarantee that this will work for EVERYONE. But don't knock until you try it. At first I was a little skeptical my self. But i tried it and it worked for me. But you have to have discipline and you can't be lazy!
Well, good luck so us all!

Mondays meal plan:
Breakfast
-A small bowl (or medium) of cereal. Not does kind that have too much sugar. Get the special k brands or the ones with no o more than 5 grams of sugar. If you can make sure they have only 110-115 calories. P.s No adding more sugar to the cereal.

Snack
- You can have a snack if you want. When I say snack i don't mean have a bag of chips or some Twinkies. I mean have a some celery stick, or some carrot, or some fruit. If you eat a big green apple and drink a cup of water, you have not idea how full your going to be. It gets you pretty full!

Lunch
- If you eat lunch (which is good if you do) have a sandwich with a fruit of some kind. If you can try to get whole wheat, that makes A LOT of difference. It doesn't matter what you put on your sandwich as long as you don't have mayonnaise. I repeat NO mayonnaise!

Dinner
- I'm going to have a big salad (they get you full). And be creative with your salad, i find out the more creative you are the more you will want to eat the salad. Sometimes it's boring to just make plain ole' salad. Why throw in some pieces of oranges, or a some almonds! Yummy. And if you can, have the salad with a piece of grilled chicken, or even fish.

Drinks
- Like i mentioned before i'm on a NO juice ban. I don't drink soda so i guess that's kind of a plus. But i find that if you drink ONLY water for a while your digestive system runs more smoothly and you feel better. You have more energy! And water also makes your soft and gives it more moisture.

Well that's my menu for today! And you can change anything you want if these things don't make your taste buds wild. But make sure that your always substituting something healthy for something healthy!

Decisions, Decisions

ok. So i've made a decision that i'm going to get healthier. In the begining it was all about me losing the weight so i can look skinny, and i wanted to lose it FAST. I went to extreme measures to get thin. I tried not eating for most of the day. I tried going running everyday, but i never stuck to a rountine. Why? Because i lacked decispline. Why? because i wanted to lose weight TOO fast and that's impossible. It took me a while to come to that conclusion. But it wasn't until i saw this video on youtube (made by allthatglitters) about how to lose weigth but in a healthy more realistic way. So i decided to put my whole "wieght-loss journey" on the internent. I figured it will help me stay on track and maybe it will even influence other's to do the same.

My Personal Statistics :)

Starting weight: 180
Over-all goal weight: 125

See, my problem was that i wanted to lose all this weight all at once. So i started looking at diet pills and other promised diets that promised that you will lose 30-35 pounds in 1 month. I wanted it so badly, but i'm too young to get started in all those pills yet. So, one day i was talking to my cousin and she too wanted to get to her goal weight. But the difference between me and her was that she set a realistic goal. She wanted to lose at least 10 pounds by this November-December. I told her what my plan was and she helped come up with a more realistic plan.

Here's my REALISTIC-plan

Starting weight: 180
Over-all goal weight: 125
FIRST-goal weight: 140

I want to be able to reach my goal weight by feburary-march. And thats a more realistic goal!
While i'm on my road to get to my goal weight. I'm going to get healthier. Change for life! I'm going to eat healthier and excercise more often. Maybe 5-6 times a week. This is my road to a healthier me!