I got through my first day!

Wow - my first day - and I have done well! I almost blew it tonight already. Mike was taking longer at getting his list of things done today and I had to get my centres ready at school. It was already 5pm and I was still at school. I almost called him to say "let's go to East Side Marios". After all, he IS going to Vancouver tomorrow and it WAS late. But then, I thought, NO, we will go home. (good girl, aren't I? :-) So, my report for today is a positive one (as long as you don't count my thoughts!). Today's menu was as follows: Breakfast - smoothie, snack - orange, lunch - turkey, cheese, tomato, pickled beets and lettuce sandwich, snack - cherry yogurt, supper - breaded chicken (dipped in yogurt and dijon mustard and then in bread crumbs and sesame seeds), chicken flavoured rice, carrots and peas. I had water to drink throughout the day (that was one thing I forgot to mention earlier - the need to drink 2 litres of water each day. It used to be easy when I wasn't teaching kindergarten - I would drink 1/2 litre from morning 'til lunch and then 1/2 a litre at lunch and then another 1/2 litre in the afternoon and then 1/2 a litre when I exercised after school). Today, I managed to drink 1 litre and so I think that I am going to have to be more conscientious about drinking more during the day at school. I was able to get my lunch together last night and my breakfast as well in preparation for today. Earlier today, I got my lunch for tomorrow ready and now have to get my breakfast organized before I go to bed. Mike and I did some pilates tonight - boy are those exercises hard - especially on the tummy - but, I can see how they are going to be really helpful in getting us back into shape. The exercises were difficult, but we are being smart about it and taking it slowly. I think that for the first little while, we are going to have to take a short walk before doing the exercises so that we get in enough activity for the day. All I want to do right now is lay down and sleep. :-) However, I have some school work to do and so will get on that before hopefully going to bed by 10pm. I didn't do too well on that last night (got to sleep about 11:30pm), but it didn't really count since I really started this plan today (at least that's my take on things. :-)