Hello everyone,

I hope all is well with you tonight! I must say that today was the best day I’ve had recently. I felt great and had the best attitude! I hope there are going to be many more days like this one! Just one of those days when everything goes great!

Well, I’m on day 5 now and still going strong! It really feels like we are going to be able to make a permanent change in our new healthy lifestyle! We are so excited! I am already noticing some visual changes but I’m not going to weigh myself til the 7th. I will post my weight loss once per week and then take pictures on the last day of every month. I will post my photo results so you can see how I’m doing.

Last night I slept pretty good. I think I only got up twice to use the bathroom. I’m trying not to drink a LOT of water about an hour before bed but it’s hard. For some reason I have “cotton mouth” right before bed. It doesn’t make sense to me because I drink almost a gallon of water a day. So I know I’m not dehydrated.

Today was our children’s first day back at school from Christmas vacation. So I got them ready for school and then rode the bike on an empty stomach. I find that I need to drink some water before I start or I start to get nauseated during my workout. I rode the bike for 6 miles and burned 150 calories.

For breakfast we had about 3/4 of a cup of oatmeal and a banana. My between meal #1 was a shake.

For lunch, we went to Subway and had an Oven Roasted Chicken Breast on wheat foot long. We asked the lady to cut them into 4ths and ate 1/4th of the sandwhich and a small cup of applesauce (non-sweetened). It was so good and the sandwhich lasted for 4 meals!

For dinner I had 1/4th of the sandwhich and 6 shrimp with a little cocktail sauce. It was so good! Then about an hour before bed I had another shake.

We have been finding some great new receipes and they are sooo good that it almost doesn’t seem like we are “dieting!” It makes it so much easier to stick to. We just be sure to control our portions.

Well, I’m off to bed!

Dream, Believe & Achieve!

Caryn