I made it through my first week!

Well, that was the hardest part, I think. Being able to make it through a week of eating healthy and making time to make meals after I have been really slack for so long, takes a lot of willpower. I am not perfect, or rather was not perfect, this week, but I made a lot of headway. I have learned that I am good at making yummy meals (low fat). I am not so good at drinking enough water every day. I am okay at getting exercise every day (made four out of six this past week). I am pretty good at going to sleep at 10pm. This week, I am going to focus on getting at least 6 glasses of water into me each day. I would like to get to 8 glasses each day, but since I was getting only 4 each day in this past week, I think aiming for 6 cups each day is a good place to start. The menu today: breakfast - oatmeal, snack - yogurt, lunch - soup and tuna sandwich, snack - fruit salad, supper - garlic mashed potatoes, Apricot Honey Grilled Chicken, corn and peas. The chicken only took 16 minutes to grill and was moist and yummy. I have made my breakfast and lunch for tomorrow. I talked with Char today and when I told her how much fat and calories there were in my pancakes (frozen), she told me about hers - she makes them fresh from a pancake mix and there are way less calories in them and 1/12 the fat. I immediately wrote down the mix on my grocery list - I sure hope I can find them tomorrow (makes my mouth water just thinking of yummy fresh pancakes). I did some more pilates today - I did the same 5 exercises as last week and I am pleased to report that I was able to do better at them this week. It's quite a sight to watch me do them as my stomach muscles are very weak and you must use them to complete the exercises effectively. But, I will persevere and do my next set on Thursday. My goal right now is to do the first five exercises twice each week until I can do them fairly competently. Then, I can move on to the next one. A friend at work and I were competing last year for who could lose the most weight each month. She won every month (she is a big girl and so I figured that she would lose more weight). She wants to start again (she really likes the $5 Timmy's card I gave her each month for winning :-) So, we are doing the weigh-in this week since it's April 1st on Wednesday and the contest is on again. I would like to win at least one month before the end of the school year. :-)