Sometimes it's the things you don't do...

It's been a great start with the BWLC.  Assessment earlier in the week shows I am overweight.  Can you believe that?!  In a perfect world, my body would be best suited at about 150 lbs.  I can't say for sure I was ever that weight... from what I can remember, I went from a 100 lb. teenager through to a 200 lb. adult.  Overnight. 

I do know that there was day in my life that I DID NOT have to shop in the "multiple XL" section, I wore a size lower then the high teens/low twenties and I may have even wanted to tuck a shirt in.  It is goal setting time in this challenge and I am not as much thinking about specific number goals, but more the physical goals.  The shrinking out of the 2XL shirts.  Pulling down my size 18 capri pants without unbuttoning them.  Considering clothing in the smallest size, in the chubby lady section, seems like a far off scenario right now, but it is my goal.  Out there for you all to hold me to.  My 4 week goal is to drop 10 lbs.  I am not sure that will get me to the smaller stuff, but it will definitely get me closer. 

This week, we also learned about better nutrition.  All about the things we should be excited about trying, and not focusing on what we are "giving up".  I have a tendency to lean toward the glass half empty... (my friends would be shocked to hear this!) so I was naturally more encouraged by the things I HAD NOT done the past few days. 

I did not:
Eat a Corn Muffin (or 2) with butter for breakfast.
Blow through the McD's drive thru for a breakfast biscuit and orange drink.
Eat the few Nestle Tollhouses left from "my last supper".
Get a bag of popcorn and a fruit punch while I perused the workout clothes in Target.
Stop for lunch at Moe's like my daughter was begging me to.
Eat the remaining cookie dough from said Nestle Tollhouse binge the night before.
  (I actually, while saying a prayer because in my world it is a sin, threw out that cookie dough!)
Turn my husband down when he asked me to take a walk around the block.
Order anything but a fruit cup and a small OJ while having breakfast with a friend this morning.
   (Then promptly avoided the fruit cup, as it was canned fruit, not fresh)
Injest anything "white" at all today - No flour, sugar, rice, pasta.
Wimp out of our first real work out today.

I am going to make this happen.  With every passing day, I am more determined to make this work for me.  I will be a strong competitor in this competition.  I will smash my goals.  I will fuel up properly.  I know the difference between healthy and not, good choices and bad and have every intention of setting it in motion for the long haul.  I AM makin' it happen.