a lobster man's wife

Happy July!

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Token Fat Girl has a very inspiring post today. She talks about how cleansing it can be to start a new month. She has great goals for the month of July. I listed a few goals a few weeks ago, and I'm going to amend them and list some more!

1. No television in my own home.
2. Very limited meat.
3. I will listen to sermons on my commute home from work.
4. I will weigh myself only on Mondays.
5. I will log everything I eat on FitDay.
6. Of the 5 work days in a week, I will bring my lunch on 4 of them.
7. For everything I buy, I will get rid of 2 similar things.
8. I will do some sort of exercise 3 times a week.

What are your goals for July? We can do anything for a month! And we'll create healthy habits along the way!

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So today, after all that vacationing, I am officially back on track.

I have set the following goals for today through July 18:

• No tv in my house. If I am visiting someone or at the gym, I will not be a social outcast and deny myself. I just won't have it on in my house.
• I am eating very little meat. Kinda the same principle. Not in my house. If I'm out and there is no meatless option, it's okay to indulge. Fish is okay. But I am ingesting very limited meat.
• I am eating very limited processed foods. Only frozen lunches as a last resort. Not much of it.
• I am starting the Couch-to-5K this weekend. And I am doing it outside.
• I am listening to a sermon every day on the commute home from work.
• I am still allowing myself my daily starbucks drink. Too much change to try to change that as well.

Okay. There it is. I said it. I feel good about it. I am using fitday.com as Aimee suggested. Thanks!

Today was really good foodwise. Actually, it was great all the way around.

Breakfast: Starbucks drink, 1 tbsp peanut butter, 1 slice 35 calorie bread

Lunch (at the Fudgery): peanut butter, banana, and honey on whole wheat. They even gave us ice cream to take home (for free!), but I dropped it off at my previous place of employment.

Dinner: 2 whole grain waffles with pumpkin-yogurt sauce. I tried to make pumpkin pancakes, but the recipe called for add-water-only pancake mix, and I didn't read that and I bought normal whole wheat pancake mix. So no matter what I added, the consistancy wasn't right. It's no big deal, I'll try again next week.

Snack: banana popsicle and a handful of reduced fat potato chips.

I feel really good about it all.

I'm off to make lunch for tomorrow. New day, new job!!