Day two and cleaning out the pantry...

This was my breakfast.

All this for lunch. 

I had this for an after work snack. 

This was dinner. 

I can't seem to get the photos to line up correctly, but there you have it. Everything I ate yesterday. I had a HUGE lunch and it wasn't very healthy at all! I was super hungry and working alone so I felt the need to rush. So today I made a lunch to avoid the panic. I packed a individual oatmeal for breakfast and a Special K Protein Bar for lunch. If you've never had those, they are pretty awesome. They fill you up for at least 4 hours no matter how hungry you are. 

Last night I cleaned out the pantry so I would know how close we are to needing to buy stuff for the Four Hour Body Slow-Carb Diet. I also wanted to know what we need to buy in order to finish off what we have. Turns out we have a ton of rice (one of the specific no-no's for the 4HB) and a ton of spaghetti. I told my boyfriend we would be having fried rice with chicken tonight. I'm going to buy another bag of chicken because even if we have left over chicken when we finish off our pantry that will be fine because chicken is an acceptable food on 4HB. I'm getting really excited about this diet. It boasts losing 20 lbs in the first 30 days.

I talked to my aunt on Monday about getting back in the gym since we have been slacking off. I proposed that we make two days a week mandatory gym days. We will pick a time and if you don't make it to the gym you will owe the other person a dollar. It is only a dollar but I feel like that will motivate both of us to start going again. 

I did exercise at home last night but not much. All I did were "hip rotations" which basically is hula-hooping without a hula-hoop. I read that hula-hooping for just ten minutes a day for a week will drop 1'' from your waistline. After reading that, I did a bit more research and found personal accounts where individuals had started hula-hooping and toned up after a few weeks! Now, they were using weighted hula-hoops and probably didn't have a lot of fat, but that is still promising. Doing something rather than nothing is always a step in the right direction. 

Hip rotations are boring though! So I try to do them while watching something or cooking (waiting on a pot to boil or something like that). I also don't do it for very long. I do it in spurts of 3-5 mins. I try to get in a total of 10-20 mins a day but yesterday I only did 3 mins. On Monday, I did a solid 10 mins and Tuesday I could feel it. I wasn't so much sore as I could just tell I had worked something. That's fine though. I love when I "feel it" the next day. It is a subtle reassurance that I'm doing something in the right direction. 

Here. We begin.

I suppose this post will serve as an introduction and declaration of my intentions. My name is Ashley. I need to lose 112 pounds. I am setting a completion goal of 12-31-11 just so this doesn't go on forever. That is a weekly goal of 2.24 pounds a week. Currently I am 232 pounds and my BMI is 36.3. I am under a doctor's supervision and have a standing monthly appointment. I am 5' 7'' tall and my goal BMI is 18.8.

I plan on changing the way I eat and my overall lifestyle to achieve this goal. I am a member of a gym and I have a gym buddy. I also have a new(ish) boyfriend who loves outdoor activities so we plan on doing a lot this spring. I'm really excited about all the changes in my life and hope that I can stick to it all.

I will be sharing pretty much everything in this blog. The good, bad, and ugly. I will be open and honest about every food I eat and every exercise. I'm trying to get in the habit of taking photos of my food before I eat it so everything will be chronicled.

My boyfriend and I will be trying out the Four Hour Body program. We are going to empty our pantry first. We are poor kids (lol) so we don't want to just throw away all the groceries we bought just days before discovering the program.

Good luck to me and good luck to you!