Plan, Prep and Purge

Plan: As the great Benjamin Franklin said "if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail."  I have been spending lots of time researching new point values for certain foods and making lists of meals we eat that I know are pretty healthy. This Wed I will attend my first meeting to get all my documents and info about the program.
At the end of last year I was really frustrated with the fact that there was no real fitness, food journal out there that was the way I really wanted. I started making one on my computer and toyed with the idea of having it published.  It was full of inspirational quotes, bible verses, spots for meal planning, goals, training, food tracking. I never quite finished it but I had purchased some Erin Condren Life Planners for my Niece and my SIL for Christmas.  I had never heard of them before but I love planners and they were both kind of obsessed with them.  After I got them theirs I started researching them, watched a couple youtube videos and found out that people personalize them with these stickers.  As fast as my fingers could take me I went and looked up stickers on etsy and found like EVERYTHING I could ever want in a planner.  My own Life Planner and it arrives next Wed. I have purchased special stickers for tracking my WW points, my water intake, my budget will even be in here.  I think I may have truly found the planner I've been looking for for years.  I even have stickers to track my C25K and my running and work outs.  After I start using it I'll do a review here and show you how I am using it to track everything.

Prep:  The prep stage will be full of grocery shopping and portioning out my food into baggies  and labeling point values on them, so I can just grab and go.  This is very tedious and time consuming, but every time I've done this in the past I am successful at my diet.  It is because it takes some of the work out of the whole eating healthy.  Lets be 100% honest, I don't eat healthy because I am to lazy to put to work into it.  I know what I should be eating but it is just so much easier to not think about it and grab fast food on the way home.  Dinner and evenings are always the hardest for me it is when I want to snack and when I don't want to cook.  But for the next 4 months I'll be getting off a little earlier so that should help. I just need to be determined to take food out the night before for dinner the next day.  But this too will be on my daily planner. I need

Purge: While this may not be the last step, it'll probably happened at the same time as Prep step and that is to rid my house of foods that are not good for me or are trigger foods.  Get rid of all my go to comfort foods. These foods come at a much higher cost in points now and while I will still be able to have a treat every now and then but for now will be a big detox.  I have my 24 day challenge from Advocare and that includes the cleanse that should help with my cravings.

I am feeling very scared and determined all at the same time.  I am excited for this year, a year ago today my BFF and I finished our first "long run" on our half marathon training. I still can't believe that was only a year ago it feels like forever ago.