Step 1 & 2

I can't believe I went over a month without blogging.  I suppose I can as I went over a month without going to the gym and without buying any groceries.  I have been surviving these first 6 weeks of school with a couple of my favorite ladies.  Phoebe's, (near Syracuse Stage) and Wendy's (en route to/from Oswego).  Miraculously I have not gained horribly.  A couple pounds that come and go depending on the week.  I definitely wasn't tracking and I have yet to make it back to the gym.  Basically I have been living EXACTLY like I used to live before I started this adventure.  Finally this weekend I decided NO MORE!  Step one (in no real order) was to go to the store and stock up on food for meals.  Step two was to start tracking again.  Step three is in motion which is to prepare my meals ahead of time and be ready for the days I'm not home to cook (which are many) and maybe even cook on a day I am around so I have some meals handy, and then step four will be to get back to the gym.  I have found some times to try and go and this week I plan to use them.  Until I leave work and go to the gym and not home I will not see how possible it is for me to do.  I don't have the time for 4 times a week, which is what I'd really like, but 2-3 is better than 0.  So in my head I thought I wouldn't blog again until I had gone to the gym so I had more to share than "yeah, I've been pretty useless this last month and a half" but the preparedness I feel with having food in my cupboards is awesome.  I have food to make dinners both healthy and yummy, and a few of my favorites that may not be the most WW friendly but that's why I have the roll over points.  Now that I have so much stuff to help me out with tracking and portioning, I can better gauge how much I can use on dinners.  I will say I'm a little hungry right now.  But it's also been 3 hours since I've had any snack and it's the first day I haven't given in to any and all cravings I've had.  I am amazed that I have maintained which holds true to what I knew before, maintenance won't be too difficult, it's losing it that is the challenge.

I cannot tell a lie to my blogosphere.  I researched some diet supplements.  I feel so ridiculous now and can proudly say I did not purchase any, but I looked.  They make it seem so easy, that by adding one pill to your day or right before you eat, that you can boost your weight loss by more than double.  (With diet and exercise.)  It is so unhealthy and I would learn nothing.  So though the temptation to look was there, and I looked, I did not follow through and will continue to do this my way, with WW, the gym and all of you, my wonderful support team. 


Now, if you could all be so kind as to help me get motivated for DMA applications and repertoire work I would greatly appreciate it. 

To bed!!