The Thing of It Is....

I really would like to include pictures on my blog but I haven't the foggiest notion on how to do it!

That's my new challenge to be tackled as soon as possible!

On to the next order of business, diet. It's on... Yet again. I guess if at first you don't succeed try, try again.

I lost a bunch of weight from February 1st, 2010 till August of the same year and I was on cloud nine!!! "Elaine, you look so good!" "Elaine, have you lost weight?" I felt like I was unstoppable! But then I got back from Europe and things went downhill.

I stopped running (yes, I'd begun running), and I stopped attempting any kind of exercise activity! Mistake of enormous proportions-- ask my gut! Fail #1!

Fail #2 was when I stopped eating 6 meals a day, I stopped getting up early for breakfast, to prepare my lunch etc... I instead started eating fast food and pastelitos from when I sell them for my students!

However, all hope is not lost! A new plan has set in motion.

1) I plan to get back on track with my eating schedule starting November 15
2) I have a buddy who has told me she'll exercise with me at the crack of dawn! Which serves two purposes: I will be held accountable for my actions and secondly working out in the morning will serve to burn calories all day!!!
3) I printed on hot pink paper (hopefully the brightness of the paper will serve as a constant. Reminder) a schedule titled "From Couch to 5K" and I intend to follow it through.

How will I dodge the holidays??? I wonder too. But I am thinking this might help me sleep at night: unless my mother cooks something from a recipe book there isn't any holiday food I haven't ingested or don't know what it tastes like... Therefore, there's no reason to shovel cratefuls into my face during these times and I can still taste the holiday feasts and keep on the healthy side!

Good luck to me! Here I go AGAIN!!!