Motivate Me Monday!

Okay, so I know I always say I'm going to work out, and be healthy and blah blah blah and I NEVER do it. Well, those days are behind me. For the last 2 weeks I have been going to the gym Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with my best friend Roy after work. It has been amazing! I also cut out soda completely! Not one drop for a week and a half, which yeah I know- not that long, but if you only knew me, and know how much soda I consume on a day to day basis that is amazing. I haven't even had my usual headaches either. AND I've lost 6 pounds! I am so happy about it I can barely breathe. But it totally makes me more consious of what I'm eating and drinking. I decided I wasn't going to spend 4 hours a week at least a the gym and come home and eat crap! Its been so great. Some days are really hard though, I really struggle if I'm feeling sluggish and want to go home and change into sweats and watch Desperate Housewives. But then I remember that I can't ditch Roy and I drag my sorry butt to the gym.

Anyways, I'm sure that everyone these days is on pintrest and has seen these pins about how strong is the new skinny and such, and healthy is the new skinny and blah blah, can I just say thats crap.I mean really being healthy is really a lot better than skinny, but who doesn't want both? Really, you don't go to the gym and work your ass off getting flat abs to say "Oh look I'm skinny, shoot I just wanted to be healthy." Yeah I don't think so! But I think that if you are healthy you'll probably be skinny too, so it works, but make no mistake, just because you are skinny does NOT mean that you're healthy.

I am so guilty of this its sad. I looooovee food. Its delicious, but I'm not a dog so I don't need to reward myself with it. But like I said, this is so hard for me not to just eat Wingshak every day of my life.

Yeah one flipping pound at a time. I've lost 6 which is great, but I want to lose 34 more. I made a deal with myself and my parents that I was going to buy myself an iPad after I lost 30 pounds because I want one so bad I can hardly contain it, like I made sure Roy didn't let me go to the Apple store while we were shopping Saturday because I knew I would buy one if I went it. But I bumped it up to 40. I figured why not just lose the extra 10? I want to lose 40 all together anyways and I think thats the motivation I need to do so.

I have been drinking more water lately (at least 72 oz a day) and it helps! I love water, sometimes it gets a little boring but its been great. My dad told me I look like I've lost tons of weight (which coming from him is the biggest compliment of my life) and I think a lot of it is because I cut out soda and replaced it with water and got rid of all the freaking bloating that soda was giving me. I really never want to go back to it, but I probably will at some point lets be honest, but I don't crave it so good news there :)

I just need to remember this. Its going to be hard to wrap my head around that its not instant but I just need to remember I didn't put it on overnight and I can't loose it overnight. I try to read all these quotes so that I don't want to kill myself when I get on the scale and haven't lost anything or I don't see results in my jean size. I just need to remember to keep going and that I'll be okay.

My goals this week are:
1. No white bread
2. Gym 4 times
3.Water, Water, WATER!
4. Eat breakfast every day (killer)