First weigh-in today ......................................................... and....................................................................................................
I LOST THREE POUNDS!!!!!!!

So three pounds doesn't sound like that much to me either... but I just keep telling myself that you have to start somewhere! I'm just happy that I didn't GAIN weight!! I think I would have been REALLY upset if I hadn't lost anything. It's been pretty challenging for me this last week. I think the hardest part was definitely the food. I thought it was going to be time and just being overly stressed out, but I managed to keep that under control. I did something very out of character and I took things OFF of my "plate" and asked some other people to step in and help with teaching the Jazzercise classes. It was really nice to get my workout in this morning and then shower and go to work and then be able to come home as soon as I was done with work - what a novel idea! I might even explore the option of doing an early morning Jazzercise class (instead of the evening one!) I never really thought of myself as a morning person (and maybe I'm not...) but I definitely like getting up and getting my workout over with in the morning!

Ok, back to the food. :)
So this program only has FIVE recipes each for breakfast, lunch and dinner (there are other "grab and go" and "restaurant" choices). So for breakfast and lunch that's fine because the "grab and go" things work for me - or I just have leftovers for lunch. However, dinner is really the tough one. First of all, one of the recipes is bean soup and Aaron is allergic to beans, so that one is out! Now we're down to four. And Aaron is not a big fan of having the same thing every four nights - I say that, but I'm not really a big fan of it either! So I've decided that for dinners I will make the specified recipes but I will also use other recipes. I have a HUGE book full of "Cooking Light" recipes, so I intend to use them! The recipes in the program book are just recipes from the woman who created this program and there hasn't been any explanation for why we can only eat those specified things. So a tiny part of me feels like I'm cheating - but the other part of me says that I'm modifying the program to fit my family. Anyway... but everything else I intend to stick to!

The workout this morning - SO HARD!! Although our instructor ran a marathon on Sunday - 26.2 MILES. That's pretty cool. It makes me want to run a marathon, but then I start to think about how I feel after running ONE mile. I'm sure I could do it if I had the correct training, etc... however, I don't think I will be adding that to my plate this month... :) But maybe someday in the future... Anyone else want to train with me????