A Year Later

Well, it seems like it has been a year since I have last posted on this little blog. I'm going to try this again, hopefully succeeding this time in committing to daily or at least weekly updates. I want to steal an idea from a friend of mine and try to blog a picture or at least make a blog note of everything I eat and how I feel or what's going on when I eat whatever it is I am eating. I want to do this in order to become more conscious of what I am putting into my mouth. Portion control is a huge problem of mine and I do believe that that is what is holding me back from losing weight. I have been going to the gym regularly (except for the past week or so while my mom has been recovering from surgery) and I always try to eat pretty healthfully. The problem is portions and eating too often. Hopefully this can put me in check and help me cut out extra portions and mindful eating.

At my work we are doing a weight loss competition. It's about three months long and we pay 3 dollars a week so at the end the winner will get about 300 dollars. At the beginning I was doing so good and really hardcore about it. I was keeping my eating under control and going to the gym every day and the first week I lost 6 pounds. THAT FELT GOOD. Then things slowed down a little bit. My mom had a double masectomy so that week was shot as I was at the hospital eating that food and people from our church were bringing food over that was yummy but unfortunately not healthy. After she got home and was settled we had some special dinners like take out and unhealthy stuff because that's what she wanted. I obviously indulged in all of this and lost my exercise routine because I wanted to be there for her to help her out and take care of the house. Well now she is almost all better but not quite. It's time for me to jump back on the healthy bandwagon and win this competition! Tomorrow I am going to try my hardest to get the gym, Thursdays are my long and hated day of the week because I work in the morning and go straight to school for the afternoon so it's hard to make time for the gym on that day but I really am going to try tomorrow just so that I can get back into the habit of it. Tomorrow I will also start taking pictures or writing down everything I eat.

Here's hoping that I can keep this up and I will be back tomorrow with another update!

~Alexa