Inaugural Post

For lent I decided to crack down on myself and really start fixing my diet.  I LOVE chocolate, particularly peanut butter M&M's and puppy chow.  Work was really stressful last summer and that started my downhill slide into terrible eating, much more worse than I ever have in the past. Around New Year's I realized that my pants didn't really fit that well anymore.  And it got worse!  Picture me, in the middle of January in the frozen tundra that is Minnesota, standing on the train platform in a dress because I didn't fit into any of my pants comfortably.  It was a very cold winter and I'm lucky my legs didn't freeze off. 

I was a dancer growing up and haven't ever had issues with my weight, so I finally decided it was time to break my M&M habit.  I started a food journal, realized HOW many calories I was eating a day (I'll share that later...it's too depressing to see right now) and figured out how many I SHOULD be eating.  I also decided that the pretty pink food scale I purchased 6 months should probably be used rather than just be a decoration in my kitchen.  So for the past week I've been eating healthier, keeping immaculate track of my calories, and trying to work out more.  I'm not perfect and have gone over calories every day this week, but it definitely would be worse if I ate what I normally ate.  I look forward to your company during my journey!