For now, I think this will be a great way to keep track of the small details of life I will forget along the way and since I ALWAYS have a lap top with me but not a pad of paper, maybe this will be my journal.
BECAUSE no one is going to be reading my random, one post blog I figure even though this is public, its basically private and I will start with a subject I have been trying to work on but can't hold myself accountable for. Being that technically its public, MAYBE that will help me stick to my goals.
SO, this weeks goal (more like this month or in the months to come) is to lose 10 pounds. Being a new flight attendant, my weight has taken the biggest hit (or gain). You are always in airports or in airplanes. Either place, not so healthy. Peanuts and cookies don't help my waist, and CPK or expensive places to eat inside the terminal don't help my pocket book OR love handles. I don't lose weight very easily...never have. But I have to prove to myself I can do this! Or how else will I know I can lose the baby weight when that day comes (sounds vain, I know but baby weight is a hard thing to handle!)
PLAN OF ATTACK: I have a few recommendations from family and friends and these are the 3 I'm going to try to simultaneously insert into my life.
1) Choosing (and packing) healthier food - how? I'm going to use Weight Watchers.
I started it a week ago and it has TRULY opened my eyes as to WHY I have gained all this weight. When you have to grab breakfast on the run because its 5 am and you are in a different time zone than your own, cereal isn't easy but a bagel is. (Plus as the HOARDER I am, you can grab a second one and have a free lunch. Its a fun job but you don't make a ton of money and so you do what you can do to keep expenses low when you are on the road all the time). Well the cereal with milk is around 4 points but the bagel??? 8! and that is with out cream cheese! (Who has a bagel WITHOUT cream cheese?? - not me)
When you are on a plane all day at high altitudes, carbonation literally distends your stomach. One day after I had Fresca all day instead of water, I look down and realized I literally looked like I was 4 months pregnant (or however many months you are when you have a perfect little round bump that isn't big but just there). It was so crazy and even hard like a baby was in there that I made my friend feel it. They could SEE it but I wanted them to FEEL it wasn't even soft and mushy like my fat. LOL So, what is my point? Well I never used to drink juice but when soda does that to you?! and you still want some flavor with your food (I have a hard time drinking plain water with food) you start to grab OJ. OJ has calcium and stuff at least, right?! ONE GLASS OF OJ (there are 2 glasses in a can on the airplane) is 4 points. (8 points total!) I only get 29 points in a day. 8 points is usually a meal not a drink to go along with a meal!
So, I think at the least, this will help me make wiser choices and understand my intake.
2) Hydroxycut: I have a friend that is a personal trainer and SHE used this product. I came back from a summer and she had shrunk a COUPLE sizes! (Exactly what I would LOVE to do). She said she took this pill that helps you burn double the calories and then started running a lot more. Do I LOVE running!? Not really but I love how it seems to melt of the fat and inches! haha so I have decided I will.....
3) Train AND run a half marathon: Same friend texted me today and says she is running one in May. KIND OF freaks me out. I'm not going to lie. She is fit. I am not. And that is not much time to train but MAYBE it will be my motivation to go at this full force. (CAN YOU SEE? I'm trying ANYTHING! Blog, paying money to run around a block, etc) :) I've got to make myself do this.
I'm excited. We will see how this process goes and yes...I will keep you (me, myself, and I) posted on this thing :)
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