Personal Challenge: Day 3

Today was Weightless Wednesday and the challenge was to weigh yourself. Easy enough!

I am not up or down from where I was on Sunday when I weighed myself. No real surprise there.

Up next: Thirsty Thursday. Drinking 8+ glasses of water a day (and nothing else to drink!) This will be a big challenge being at work. But if I force myself to drink a small cup (8oz) of water after I finish my morning meds and drink a big glass (16oz) at lunch, plus another 8oz cup before I leave for the day, I'll only have 4 more glasses to do in the evening. It can be done but it will be challenging. Wish me luck!

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Personal Challenge: Day 2

I'm sitting here hungry and grumpy. Today was a harder day for me, but I knew it was going to be. Today was Tiny Tuesday and the challenge was to eat portion sizes (or less). I have a huge problem with portion sizes and it's actually something I want to work on.

Breakfast: 1/2 cup oatmeal, sweetened with Mixed Berry applesauce (note to self: do not feed that to my children anymore, awful!!!!) 1 banana. 1 cup milk.

Lunch: Oh yeah, no lunch..... absolutely no time at work for any sort of break. I guess that's staying within portions.....

Dinner: not enough spaghetti, less sauce than a portion and less cheese than a portion. 1 breadstick. Water. Oh, and since I couldn't have another breadstick even though I really wanted one.... 1/2 cup of ice cream. Lol.


So... I met the challenge. But I'm hungry. And some of it just doesn't make sense -- like the ice cream thing. It would have been better to just eat a breadstick. But I guess the point is that you don't eat anything at all.


Tomorrow will be Weightless Wednesday and the only challenge is to weigh yourself. I think I can handle that...

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Personal Challenge: Day 1

I decided to take the challenge I posted earlier this week from pinterest. I'm only committing to this week so far. Today was Meatless Monday. The Challenge: Obvious as it sounds, to avoid eating any meat for the day. This was by far the easiest day for me. After having avoided eating meat for five and a half years, avoiding it for a day is like nothing. I rarely even choose to eat meat for myself anyway.

For breakfast I had a bowl of Meijer's version of Special K with strawberries. For lunch we had macaroni and cheese with carrots and broccoli. For a snack I had some animal crackers. And I didn't end up eating anything for dinner except for two bites of Jacob's grilled cheese sandwich and one blueberry. I was too busy getting the kids ready and the house picked up some. So all in all, it was an easy "challenge" for day 1.

Tomorrow is Tiny Tuesday and I predict this is going to be a LOT harder for me. Tuesday is about watching your portion sizes -- something I am terrible at doing! I have already measured out my portions for breakfast. And my lunch is packed for at work. I'll update tomorrow evening on how the day goes. Wish me luck!!

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