Day One - August 15, 2011 (with pictures)

Exactly 2 months before my sister's wedding, which is why I wanted to start on this day.  I had planned to start my blog on this day as well, but it took my a little longer than I had planned to come up with a name for my blog.  I took a couple pictures of myself so everyone can see how I look starting this journey.  There's no sucking in going on in these pictures.

  Anyways, I started my morning with a small glass of green tea before I started getting ready for work.  I stopped at one of the local coffee stands (Human Bean) on my way to work and got a 16 oz. Low Fat Caramel Granita.  This is one thing I need to work on, not getting so many coffee drinks.  It's normal for me to have one every single morning.  For lunch I had an egg salad sandwich on wheat bread.  I actually made the egg salad myself for the first time ever.  It turned out really good too.  Just wish I had come celery to add to it.  I also had a Fuji apple and to drink I had a 16 oz. Nonfat Iced Awake Tea Latte from Starbucks.  Now normally I wouldn't get 2 drinks from 2 different coffee places in the same day, but one of the drug reps at work brought us coffee unexpectedly.  So I just drank the one she brought us for lunch.  For dinner I had a shredded chicken enchilada.  My mother-in-law made them so I'm not 100% sure what was in them but I could tell there was the shredded chicken, beans, olives, the tortilla and enchilada sauce.  Not sure if there was anything else in there.  It was very yummy.  I also had a small handful of tortilla chips with freshly smashed avocado.  And for dessert I had 3 rectangles of a symphony chocolate bar.  Throughout the day I drank 2- 8 oz. glasses of water. Ok I said I wasn't ready to say how much I weigh, but whatever I'm just going to say it.  It's just a number, right?  *Sigh*  I weigh myself every morning and today (Aug. 15) I weighed 241.4.  At the beginning of the year I weighed 248, the most I've ever weighed.  So I've lost 7 pounds since then, but I've also been up and down since then.  So this is the time for that number to go down and continue going down.  I would eventually love to be under 200 lbs., but losing 10-20 lbs. to start is good for me.