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Ready, Set, Go....tomorrow

I am ready.   I have read my 21 Day Fix booklet.  I have sorted out the number of each container I can have in a day.  I have printed out a tracking chart. I have grocery shopped.  I have cleaned, sorted and stored veggies, fruits and other items.   I am ready to go.  

I will be starting tomorrow, March 4th.  I will post my starting pictures, I will weigh and measure myself and I will dive in.  I have looked up recipes on the Internet.   I have looked at the recipes in the book.  I actually have been trying out some of the recipes I found on the Internet for the past week and my family hasn't noticed much of a difference.   My son did comment "are we ever going to eat out again?"  Up until about 2 weeks ago I think we were eating out 3-4 a week.   WHAT!!!!!   Yes it is true...we ate out a lot.  You name it we ate there.   Fast food restaurants, pub style restaurants, Mandarin, Sub places, Montana's, Swiss Chalet.   If it was close we ate there.   I bet we spent hundreds of dollars a week eating crappy fast food.   We justified it because with my Hubby's work, his coaching hockey, my shift work schedule, my son's busy hockey, school, volunteer schedule that there was just no way around it.  Well guess what...our schedules haven't changed and we have managed to eat at home every night for the past 8 nights.    It is dawning on me that we (my husband and I) were not only lazy, we were the King and Queen of Laziness.    

I had started tracking our family budget in January and into February.  It was insane the amount of $$$ we spent on food.  We spent almost $800 in 5 weeks at restaurants.  Add to that the over $800 that was spent in the grocery store.  There are only 3 of us living in this house and 1 is a 14 year old boy.   It was staggering the amount of money we pushed into our gobs.   No wonder both of us are considered morbidly obese.    I had told my Husband that we couldn't afford to buy a new truck because we just didn't have the money.   That's why I had started tracking our budget to see where we could cut back.   Well I think I found it.   Can you imagine the type of truck he could be driving around if we were smarter about our choices!!  Makes me shake my head.

Anyway......

My goals for the next 21 days are fairly simple.  Stick to the eating plan.  Exercise for a minimum of 30 minutes each day.   Drink water, drink water, drink water.  Stay positive.  I'm hoping at the end of the 21 days I have lost 6 lbs. That is 2 lbs a week.  That is my goal. 


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