April Plans

Today is the first day of April which leaves me 29 more days after today to lose 4-8 pounds. That is my goal for the month. It should be quite doable if I get myself back on plan. That means following my food plan and exercising for 30 minutes five days a week along with my stretches. It also means that I need to work on my snacking issues as well. I really need to go back to one "bad" snack a day and all other snacks need to be healthy or next to no calories such as sugar free jello. I also need to work on drinking more water (and less diet pop would be good too). I used to drink two water bottles full of water (or crystal light) by the end of the work day. I've noticed lately I've only been drinking one or one and half if I'm lucky.

I've got my goals and rewards set in place. I have also decided to go back to writing down my goals and giving myself a smiley face sticker if I meet them for the day.

While I was at Menard's this morning, I found some Levi jeans on sale for $15 (I know it is an odd place to buy clothes.) that are just slightly tight. I have hung them up downstairs on my motivation board.

Along with all the journaling, blogging, and rewards, I think I'm tired enough of being in the place I'm at right now. It felt great when I first reached 190 months ago, but it isn't feeling great any more. I'm starting to feel fat and gross again. I guess sometimes after reaching milestones it takes a while to feel you need to keep moving on. I've been indulging in some not so good food such as you can see in the pictures below.

Yes this is a blizzard from Dairy Queen.

This kind of food is fun to eat once in a while, but eating that way too much makes me feel gross and like I have no energy. I think if I can keep reminding myself of that, it will help to motivate me to try harder as I try to get back in my good habits.