Family Picture Day.

Well we did it. Family pictures. I tried to prepare myself for them but it still was hard not to wince as I saw them. I really had thought maybe I could take one that isn't so terrible. Maybe they will have good angles & I will not have that bad of a double chin.  Well I've gotten to the point where that is no longer an option. People say that the pics turned out really good and I can see my smile behind those chubby cheeks but it really isn't me.  Not the me I am inside & want to be.  Thank God my husband loves me just as I am but I know it would improve our relationship, if I lost weight.  Mainly because of my confidence.

Anyways, So back to needing a plan. I talked to DH about my 30 day plan and how I think I am going to limit my options as well. Every time I've lost weight it has been allot of repeat eating. So like I eat grilled chicken and broccoli every

    night for dinner. I need my choice taken away for the first 30 days. He is on
board and understands that if I need this he will eat the same thing as I do as many days a week as needed. I talked to him about GreatWolf in the middle of my 30 days and he doesn't think we need to pack the Foreman grill but I just need to make myself order grilled chicken.  I have to look at the menu and see if that will work.  So start date is officially Friday Dec 27th.  I have over two weeks to plan it comes right after payday so meal planing will be done. Yet to be decided is how to start. If I am going to do the 10 day cleanse or if I am going to just do a two day juice, or if I will just start counting calories. I feel like I need to do something at the start to get a clean break.  I've never completed the Advocare 10 day cleanse and I think that is why I shy away from it but I feel like a 10 day break would be a better start than just a 2 day juice and I plan on using Advocare vitamin packs. I need to psych myself up so I can make it through the whole 10 days. It isn't any super strict diet just whole grains no processed flours or sugars. So I can have potatoes and I was thinking about boiling up a weeks worth to put in my lunches so I can not feel like I am missing out on carbs. I have allot that I need to do in the next 2 weeks. Not just to make sure everything is in order for my diet, getting up early (this means putting an alarm clock across the room), get my house in order and cleaned, stuff knitted and wrapped for Christmas. So much to do but it'll be worth it if I can get this all under control once and for all.