16 days

I have 16 days to do my best with clean eating and exercise before heading to New Orleans.  I want to feel good for my trip and I know that a healthy lifestyle will help me feel good.  I should be able to get 5 strength training classes in and the rest will be running/walking.  I am going to follow the couch to 5K program as I feel it would be my best bet to building up my endurance for running again (and I need to not let it slip again).  I am getting older and I so do not want to spend the rest of my life struggling  with begin unhealthy.  I really need to set a better example for my little man too.  I hear him and see him do so many things that I do and I don't want that for him!!!!

I have the tools and knowledge to lead a healthy lifestyle and I just need the will power.  I need to do this for myself!

The cleanse that I was doing (but didn't last the 4 weeks) did teach me a lot of things and I now know of yummy snacks to have which are healthy and actually filling (one of my fave's from the cleanse that I can see myself using more often is the 1/2 avocado with hemp hearts and pinch of sea salt on a rice cake….so good).

Meal planning and prep will be key in me having success with this and tracking what I eat.  I am hoping to be in a certain weight range come the new year so here we go!!

November

Well I fell of the cleanse wagon.  I had been doing so well and then boom, right on my face.  I have decided for the rest of the year I will just focus on clean eating and then maybe try the cleanse again in January.  I am determined to be in a certain weight range by the new year and can only do that with clean eating and exercise.  I need to get this under control.  I need to also get my house in order too.  I have 3 days off before heading back to work (finally feeling better…2 sick days).

Today I will focus on the Kitchen, make a grocery list, getting groceries and doing laundry.  I need to get better at this.  I can tell it is causing some strain on my poor husband and I need to use my time more wisely.  He has a big even coming up on saturday and will be stressed about it so I need to make sure to have food ready for him and the boys so he doesn't have to worry about that at all.

I am loving our new bedroom furniture so I need to make sure at some point this week I get out and find a paint colour that will look nice with the furniture.

Well I must get going and meal plan for the week.