What's this all about...

I decided to make this blog to help keep me motivated in my health/ weight loss transformation. I lost 10 pounds in the last nine months and gained four of those back. I'm not really sure what happened. I was blaming it on the time change. When we had to "spring ahead" it made it really hard to wake up with enough energy to do a workout before work so I just stopped doing them. That was six months ago.

I recently bought the book It Starts with Food and next week I'll be starting Whole30. My husband doesn't really want to do it but has agreed to try it for two weeks. I'm really hoping he's like some of the people I've read about that feel a difference within the first two weeks and he'll decide to stay with it. I don't blame him for not wanting to do it... I'll ask him tomorrow but I'm pretty sure he is like me and has never been on a diet. We've both tried to cut back on specific things but to limit ourselves this much is something very new a dramatic for us.

This week I've have purchased a few essentials needed but this weekend I'll be picking up the last if it. Also I'll come up with a meal plan for the week for me and my husband and I'll have to remember to take before measurements and such.

I just realized that this program may not work for my husband. He works for a private school which offers free lunch to the staff. Maybe I can get him the read the book and take this seriously.

I'll keep you informed on things such as great recipes I've found or what I'm having difficulty with (I have a feeling it's going to be cravings or coworkers wanting to order pizza). I'm nervous but also excited. If I do this right, the allergies that I've gotten only in my later years, the feeling of always being hungry, bubble guts and the aches and pains in my knees and my heel that just never seem to go away will go away!