End of Month 1 - Starting Atkins

Well, today marks the first month of my journey to a healthier self. I'm proud that I have continued to lose steadily - I would rather lose slow and steadily, than fast and gain it all back. I will post pictures tonight when my photographer (aka husband) is home from work but my current weight is 230lbs!! So I realize you may think "Oh, she only lost .4lbs last week" and yeah, I admit, at first glance I wish it was a higher number so I could have reached my 10lb goal - BUT it's still a loss not a gain so I'm very happy! This brings my weightloss total after 1 month of monitored eating and portion control to.......................................

-8 pounds

Wohoo!! I'm proud of myself!!

Now, looking at the upcoming week I am trying something different. My husband has decided to get in on this weightloss thing too. When he was deployed he didn't eat very often and was very active, and super skinny. Now that he's home, and not in as stressful an environment, he's gained a few pounds back (nothing darastic) but he wants to lose them before it gets out of control.

 We also are making changes to our eating habits because one day when we're blessed enough to have children, we want them to make healthy decisions from day one and not struggle with their weight. 

So what are we doing? We're going to try out Atkins. I did Atkins when I graduated high school and lost around 25 lbs in the first few months. But then I went off to college, and stopped caring about what I put in my body. SO... Atkins... yay! We read the chapters up through Phase 1: Induction. Then we revamped our shopping list and let me tell you 90% of our list was green - LOTS and LOTS of vegetables. We purchased some things I know I've never tried before. We also bought some cheeses and lean meat. No bread. No pasta. No carbs. >insert crying here< 

I love carbs, partially because they are a comfort food - but mainly because they don't take any thought or time to prepare. 

When we got home from the grocery store last night we decided to get rid of all the "bad" "non atkins approved" food. It wasn't a lot (mainly because we had been needing to re-stock anyway) but when we finished, it looked VERY different. Our pasta rack... is empty and has been replaced with a couple of cans of olives. Our refridgerator is cram packed with romaine, red leaf lettuce, bell peppers, onions, green beans, celery, etc etc etc. It looks great!!!

Alright, the Beer, and Coke is honestly only in there for when my husband's battle buddies come over and play video games - they typically have been or Jack & Coke. Otherwise, there it sits :)

Well, I started today, but unfortunately my husband will have to wait a day to try breakfast/snack/lunch/snack because they unexpectedly went to the range today when we were anticipating him being able to come home and have breakfast/pack his lunch. Hmm. May need to start doing this the night before...  Anyway,

Breakfast this morning went something like this:

1 serving of sausage, 2 scrambled eggs and 1 cup of Almond Milk.

Let me just say, I hope Almond Milk is an acquired taste because this morning it was NASTY! I kept telling myself "it's real milk. it's real milk. it's real milk." when in reality it's real nasty :) I'll try it again later in the week, but it was hard to keep from gagging on it. Guess I'll be living on water ;)

I will continue to post pics of snacks and meals today. Tonight I'll be sure to post a new updated pic to compare to day 1 :-)