Diet Time

It's that dreaded word: diet. I have been putting this off for a few months now. Seeing this is a new year, why not start fresh. I hope to lose 15-20lbs in 3 simple steps:

1. Cut all sweetened drinks from my diet. This will be the hardest by far. I love pop, kool-aid, just about anything with refined sugar or high fructose corn syrup.

2. Incorporate more lean protein (i.e. chicken, fish) and veggies into my diet. This will be easy.

3. exercise, exercise, exercise!

I admit I am a little afraid to start exercising again. I haven't worked out since before Gianna was born.

Having a c-section and nearly bleeding to death makes me afraid that doing too much will tear something in me and cause a slow leak. I will go on with my life growing weaker and weaker, totally unaware that I am bleeding to death. Then one night I will go to sleep and never wake up. The cause of my death: internal bleeding due to excessive exercise. My family will be consoled by the doctors saying this almost never happens.

So in that case I'd much rather stay nicely padded with fat and gleefully eat cookies and mashed potatoes all day long. Seeing that has has made my tight jeans even tighter and my face a tad rounder, I have to put my far out fears aside and venture to workout. I am even a little excited. Before I got married I enrolled in boot camp at my gym. It was intense but so amazing. I lost a lot of weight, gained muscle mass and even put a nice little curve in my ever so flat derriere! :) (which I thought was impossible BTW)

Okay! Here I go. Day 1 of my diet has been good so far. When Mark gets home I will bundle up and go for a nice brisk walk. Wish me luck