Making a New Start!!!

Here I am again.  I can’t believe a month has already passed.  But life happened – new job (making $10,000 more a year YEA!!!!!) and my son has moved back home to help me with my husband (and to get his life straight).  With this new job, I am back in the classroom with children on the THIRD FLOOR.  I cannot keep going up the stairs with all this extra weight.  NEW INCENTIVE!! 

So, here I start September 1 at the weight that I have been hovering over for the last 4 months (238 lbs.).  My goal for this month will be and for every month this time forward – 5 lbs. I want to lose it slow and this way it will stay off.

My goals:

1. Eat on plan everyday with no cheats.
2. Make a plan to stay on plan – plan my menu the day before and follow it.  (No matter how tired I may be – prepare my breakfast and lunch the night before for work.)
3. Follow the plan as outlined – Mediterranean and Paleo flair to Atkins
4. Jumpstart the eating plan by following more an Atkins ’72 type eating style for at least a week.
5. In following the first four steps above, I should expect to lose weight, not just maintain as I have in the last 4 months.

I am going to wait at least 4-6 weeks or until I have lost 18 pounds before I start an exercise plan.  I do climb 2 flights of stairs several times a day due to my job so I will get some exercise to start, just nothing more organized.

I will have a new insurance plan so I will postpone my blood work until the Christmas holidays so that I do not have to take off of work.  In addition, it will give the eating plan a chance to improve my lipid numbers.  Starting cholesterol was 229 in May.

Food choices today:

Breakfast: 2 eggs cooked in 1 T. butter
Lunch: small salad with olive oil and vinegar dressing, pulled pork
Dinner: hamburger with cheese and bacon (no buns); small salad with olive oil and vinegar dressing

GOAL for September: 5 lbs.  (233.8 lbs.)

9/1 – 238.8