I think the real new part of this is that I'm gonna hold myself accountable for monthly goals rather than 100 day goals, although 3 months is about 100 days anyway... Like I've mentioned before, I'm going to lose (at least) 5 pounds in January. I'm trying to decide if I should weigh myself more than once a month. I know that I can resist the urge, and this way I'm dropping much bigger amounts per weigh in. We'll see how it goes. Maybe seeing weekly progress will help motivate me.
- I want to really, truly, honest-to-god minimize eating out. It just makes tracking what I eat so much more difficult. I think my only exceptions will be things that are easy to count, like Subway or sushi and only in a bind!
- I'm still staying off caffeine, I'm not sure if staying off artificial sweeteners is all that important...I don't think I necessarily feel better and it was brought to my attention that sugar is not very good for you. Replacing my splenda with sugar avoids adding unnecessary chemicals to my body but is the alternative better? Using nothing would probably be ideal, but for now I think maybe I'll use splenda sparingly.
- I'm pumping up the cardio. Ideally I'd like to do (at least) 5 days a week and burn (at least) 500 calories each time I'm there. This is totally do-able and I've done it before. With a mix of elliptical and jogging I can get it all done in an hour. Once I build my runs back up I can probably bang it out in 45 minutes.
So, all in all, maybe not that much is different. I did pretty well (I think) in December, I can only imagine how much I weighed back after Thanksgiving. I need to work super hard now to feel good later. But I also need to take each day on as it's own individual challenge and knock them down one by one.
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