Our first day...

  


 I have never blogged before in my life. This is a fact which should be  readily apparent by this feeble attempt to record the exhilarating highs, the tragic lows and the (more likely) mind-numbing mundaneness of the Great Home Care Weight Loss Project. (Or the official government approved acronym which can only be pronounced in Welsh,GHCWLP.)
 
  To kick off the beginning of this ambitious endeavor (backed by a wad of cash) , I offer up my personal experience on our first day of kicking weight loss a$$. (Which is better than kicking my weighty a$$... but I digress.) This is my first day of eating healthier, attaining some measure of physical fitness and drooling longingly over self-enforced missed chocolate moments.

  Breakfast today was lite yogurt, two pieces of toast with butter and hot tea. This added up to around 300 calories. Got to the office just in time for the weekend review.I poured myself a cup of coffee with a bit (Okay, a bit more than a bit.) of creamer. My husband is so proud of me for finally growing up and drinking coffee. I've always been a tea and hot chocolate kinda girl, so he now feels like I've graduated to the Big Leagues of caffeinated breakfast beverages. What he doesn't realize is that I'm only drinking it in a roughly 3:1 ratio. The 3 being anything that can be used to mask the flavor of the coffee. Then  because the challenge hasn't "officially" begun ("official" being the moment we all stepped onto that ugly, lying thing called a scale), I also nab five pieces of peppermint bark candy which total about 100 calories. (I know, I checked.)

  I meet my honey ("honey" being Rob, my partner in happy,domestic bliss. Not some illicit lover named "Rolando") for a very quick lunch at Subway. Subway is healthy. This is a fact proven by various fit athletes and previously overweight persons who tell us that in commercials. They all say it, so it must be true. Subway is surely the epitome of healthy fast food. (I know...an oxymoron.) The Subway guy asks us what we want to eat and I check out the nutrition guide on the glass case. I notice that the healthiest choices are not necessarily the cheapest..er..least expensive items on the menu. Therefore, my newly appointed Healthy Conscience is warring with my inner cheapness...er...frugality. Sorry, Healthy Conscience. You mess with Frugal Bone and you will lose EVERYTIME. I order a 6" Cold Cut sandwich with swiss cheese on Italian/herb bread. The lite mayonnaise goes a long way toward easing that increasingly annoying Healthy Conscience. I also grab a bag of chips and fill my cup with diet Coke.

  This is also a concession to our challenge. Before today, I would've filled my cup with 3/4 diet Coke and 1/4 regular Coke. That way I'd get less calories with 1/4 of the taste. Today, I am a good girl due, in part, to that suddenly unbelievable loud and obnoxious Healthy Conscience which is really looking like a prime candidate for a good beat down. Anyway, the total calories tabulate to around 610, according to the website caloriecount.about.com .

  No snacking during the day (yay!), but when I get home I forego hot dogs and mac and cheese for a medium piece of leftover lasagna which (according to recipe) should equal about 400 calories. Unfortunately, I've gotten home too late for my chosen form of physical activity...such as it is. But that's a story for tomorrow. My total caloric intake today works out to about 1500. I'm good with that.  Oh, and the title of the blog? Blame Cindy. When I asked her for ideas on what to name it, she said "I'll get back to you later on that." As you all know, whatever Cindy says, goes.;-)

  So now it's your turn. Here's the place to talk about our achievements, challenges and that incredibly ANNOYING Healthy Conscience that will probably intrude just when we're eyeing that delicious cheesecake the DME company has dropped off at the office. At least for the next three months....oh, fine! For every day of my life after this! (Yep, a good ol' conscience beat down is looking very promising right about now.)