I am EXCITED to announce...

I will be beginning SBD on Monday!!!  My husband and I ate like CHAMPIONS this week and all of the white food is out of the house!  Well, except for those homemade lasagnas that are in the freezer.  They will just have to stay there until I am skinny again!  There are a few chocolate chip oatmeal pecan cookies left, but they WILL be gone by Monday!

I am excited to be getting back on the right track again!  I also have an encouraging story for all of you out there who get frustrated with exercise.  I am a teacher and I teach first grade in an inner-city school.  My job is stressful and tiring, but it is also one of the most rewarding things I have ever done.  Yesterday was our second day back from Winter Break and I was EXHAUSTED!  All I wanted to do was just go home, eat some carbs and curl up into a little ball, but I knew that I needed to exercise.  I didn't want to.

Exercise and I have a bad history.  I hate exercising.  Going to the gym and getting, oh horror of horrors, sweaty is not my idea of a good time.  So I have to trick myself into doing exercising.  Colorguard is a great example.  I was having so much fun perfecting routines and performances that I didn't notice that I was working out.  Actually, when I started Marching Band and Colorguard, in High School, my doctor thought that I was either starving myself or puking because I lost so much weight!  It was over 20 pounds!

A few years ago I discovered Zumba.  In my opinion Zumba is the greatest thing to happen to exercise since I don't know what.  And with a great instructor you can have so much fun and feel so sexy that you really do forget that you are doing something good for your body.  But yesterday I was tired.  I REALLY didn't want to, but when I got home instead of putting on my flannel pj's I put on my dance pants and dragged my butt to Zumba.  Boy howdy!  Was I glad that I did!  Somewhere in the midst of the Latin rhythms I got this huge burst of energy.  I felt like I had gotten 8 hours of sleep!  I also felt good about myself and what I had done.  I started to think, "I really CAN do this skinny thing!"  It reminded me of Legally Blonde when Elle says,"Exercise gives you endorphins!  Endorphins make you happy!"  Listen to Elle, she got it right.

Now for the things I ate.

Yesterday

Breakfast
--Two snack sized bags of sun chips
--1 cup of coffee with 2 sweeteners and non-dairy creamer

Lunch
--lasagna
--sunchips
--apple
--6 chocolate chip cookies

Dinner
--Roast Beef
--Brussel Sprouts
--Mashed Potatoes
--Cranberry Juice mixed with Water

Today
Breakfast
--Plain Bagel and Cream Cheese
--2 cups of coffee with half-and-half and splenda

Lunch
--Turkey and Cheese Sandwich on Wheat Bread with mayo and mustard
--Baby Carrots
--Milk Box

Dinner
--Chips, Salsa, Queso
--Carne Guiso (Mexican Pot Roast)
--Mexican Mashed Potatoes
--Ranchero Beans
--Margarita on the Rocks
--Water