January First - Some success, some not...

Well there I was...I've lessened my Seroquel dose at night because it makes me a zombie until noon, where I can't even get up to get my cups of coffee started.  And I want to lessen my coffee intake, so the dose has to go - hopefully it doesn't affect my mood stability negatively.

So, there's no excuse for the first action of the day to be a failure.  My third day with half the dose and I'm actually quite alert in the morning, but there I was brewing a full pot of coffee again.  I'm only supposed to have one rather than 3-4.

Relax Nat, it's New Years Day.  Yeah right.  Who am I kidding?  How the hell am I ever going to reach my goals, and it's a pretty simple non-aggressive one in my opinion?!

Gulp gulp gulp.

"Is that number 3?" Stephen says.

Crap.  Ok ok...let's see what the rest of the day holds.  1700 calories later...ugh.  Kaitlin had a playdate and I made them homemade mac and cheese, sub angel hair for the mac.  It was NOT heart healthy.  But I tell ya, it was delicious.  And the baked potato with the leftover cheese sauce was awesome.  The chocolate and chips leftovers from Christmas went down so smoothly.  Like koolaid.  Wrong analogy?  Oops.

"Hey Nat, what'd you eat today?" My answer?  "Nothing really." Uh yeah.  Ok...

Normally the day would be lost in my opinion and I would just give up and put it off til tomorrow.  But what successes happened today?  There were a few:

1. Began my Biggest Loser game on the Wii.  Started my profile, entered my goals, weighed in and worked the workout chosen for my program.
2. Joined a Biggest Loser app on Facebook - thought that was kinda neat.
3. Made and ate a beautiful salad, chicken, romaine, spinach, mandarins, blueberries, carrots, tomatoes, feta cheese
4. Drank two glasses of water - that's two glasses more than I've drank in 4 months.
5. Took my measurements which are posted below.
6. Took some pictures of me in a bikini I bought for my wedding trip, as well as my current workout clothes.  One word for ya: GROSS.  The back view ain't so pretty and my ass used to be my hot spot.  *sigh*
7. This is the first New Years ever in my life where I did not put things off completely until Jan 2nd, or the first Monday of January.  It certainly wasn't a perfect day but look at what I did on Jan 1st!  Yahoo!

From my sales training, I was always taught to think of the Top 5 of whatever people give two shits about...well lookie there, I came up with 7 for today's actions.  And look at that dayum good salad below.  Mmmmm, I could eat that every day!

Measurements:

• Boobs - 40.5 inches
• Belly Button - 38.5
• Hips/Butt - 43.5
• Body Fat % - 30.5 (we don't know exactly how accurate this is, as we are not used to using Calipers, but I feel that this is probably right based on my past measurements at the gym "back in the day.")

Yuck - I'm painting a picture of a straight and shapely in the wrong way body.  

Ok, I know that I said I wasn't going to post before pics.  But to make this more real for me and to make me more accountable I'm going to have to suffer some embarrassment pain.  I apologize for those who view them.  I don't think these pics are that attractive. 

The first set of pics I'm wearing the bikini that I bought for my wedding trip in Vegas and California.  It is very tight now and I thought that the strap was going to break off.  That would be a shame because I love this bikini and I want to be able to wear it to the beach again.

The second set of pics are me in my more realistic clothing that actually fits me.