If you read yesterday’s post you read that I’ve been re-energized after reading The Shift by #ToryJohnson.  And btw I heard today it is #1 on the Best Seller’s List.  

One of thing I noticed that helped Tory on her journey was writing her goals down. Now this is nothing new, but what I liked that she did was – write it on an index card.  So that is just what I did yesterday – a little more later as to what I have on it.

For more than a year I’ve been focusing on the following:

1. Eat 3 meals per day – this is a well balanced meal with protein, carb and veggies.  No more than 30 carbs per meal – and enough protein to get me to the next meal.  And we’ve adjusted the carbs down to ~25 per meal (and no bread with breakfast) (and I bet most days I’m much lower than that per meal)
2. No fruit – I’m carb sensitive
3. Drink 60 – 80 ozs of water per day.   I’ve added some hydration tabs as my last two blood tests have shown that I’m dehydrated – I sweat a lot when I work out.
4. Limit desserts and sweets in general
5. Exercise 3 xs per week
6. Enjoy my food – so I don’t eat stuff I don’t like!

As I mentioned earlier, I decided  yesterday to create a 30 day plan starting to see if tweaking the above would show any changes to my weight loss (it has kind of slowed down over the last 5 weeks).  One of the things Tory did was go cold turkey not having things.  I’ve always been fairly flexible as I don’t want to feel like I’m missing out on things.  However, I’m curious for one can I do the following and two does being so strict make a difference?  Time will tell.

1. Water, Coffee or Tea only – no Diet Pepsi and no Diet Dr. Pepper.  I really don’t drink a lot of soda but I can tell you the next month I will be tempted with some work and personal travel.
2. No bread at breakfast – I know this is in the above; however, I’ve been known to make exceptions – especially when I’m finished with my 6 week nutritionist appointment – I use it as a reward and know better than to use food as a reward! 🙂
3. Limit my AM coffee routine to 2 cups per morning – and if I want a 3rd cup it needs to be black.  I enjoy light cream in my coffee.
4. No dessert
5. Exercise 4xs per week or more!

I’ll keep you posted on my progress.