Day 1: Because today is as good as any day to start

Backstory:

I've entitled this little experiment "My Brand-New Old Self," because I want to share my journey of becoming the person I used to be. I'm fighting that age old battle of weight loss after having a baby. My little youngin is 16 months old now, and it's been a struggle. The day I gave birth, I weighed 209 lbs... I had gained roughly 70 lbs during pregnancy. For about a year I leveled out at about 195.

At my healthiest and best I was 133 lbs, I rowed on crew, I played soccer, rode my road bike to work, I could do over 50 pushups or 100 situps in a minute, and I could run more than 2 miles without stopping. This was less than 5 years ago.

My husband left for deployment and I had worked my way down from 185 to 176. Then holidays struck. I'm now 180 and I have until April to meet my goal of losing 30 or more pounds. I want to surprise him with my brand new old self.

Day 1: Morning wiegh-in 180.6

I hope I have better luck with this than I have with other motivational techniques. I suck at self-motivation. I'm hoping that If I have to hold myself accountable to others, and not just myself, I'll be able to stick with it.

Today I've had a Special K protien shake, one of Harris Teeters soup bowls, and a Coke. That works out to about 600 calories. I'm sticking with a goal of 1300-1500 calories a day. I know the Coke is my worst enemy, but it's also my biggest weakness. I couldn't even give it up during pregnancy. I have managed to limit myself to 1 a day for about a week now. I drink water or 0 calorie tea instead.

I haven't been to the gym since Saturday because I woke up Sunday with a wicked sore throat and it hasn't gone away. I always start off my workouts with a run, and I just wouldn't be breath through it. I hope to go tomorrow, but if I still have a sore throat, I'm going to take my kiddo and the dogs to the park for a walk instead. Maybe I'll do both.