30 Day Weight Loss Challenge

So they say you should create weightless goals and then blog/write about them to hold yourself accountable and to have some viability to your success. So it begins...

I'm a pretty active person. I usually work out 5 times a week, and lately twice a day. Mostly low impact cardio (thanks to a running injury I'm still recuperating from).

I wanted to start this blog for a few reasons. To see where my problems are, to recognize them, learn, and move on. Here are my current dilemmas.

1.) My boyfriend moved here about 9 months ago and since then, we've been eating every delectable food and drinking all kinds of amazing wine. Enjoying ourselves yes... but because we're together all the time now, we don't workout as much as we did when we were apart.

2.) I work full time and go to school full time. So working out twice a day is becoming a bigger task than even I (queen of time management) can handle.

3.) I LOVE Carbs...

4.) I LOVE Carbs and chocolate anything.

So now that I've listed my problem areas, I'd like to set sight on some goals. I've gone on Southbeach Diet before and for 2 weeks managed to take all sugars, carbs, and starches out of my diet. I wasn't able to workout very much because you don't have really any carbs to fuel your workouts, but since I have about zero time lately, this diet is going to be perfect. To get to my target weight and as quickly as I'd like (hey... I'm an instant gratification kind of girl), I'm going to TRY (real hard) to maintain this diet for a full 30 days, starting Feb. 22nd. From Feb 22nd to March 22nd, I'll be drinking zero alcohol, eating zero sugar, and absolutely no white flour carbs.

Most people do Southbeach Diet in phases, and there's 3. This if if you have a lifelong goal of changing the way you eat. I eat pretty dang healthy and workout like crazy, so I'm not really concerned about that part as much as I am about loosing weight pretty fast. The first phase is the most difficult and the most intense, hence you loose the most weight. Most people do this phase for about 2 weeks and then move onto Phase 2 which introduces some light carbs back in. I'm going to stretch this out to maximize my results.

I will be creating food lists of things I'll be eating, keeping a food diary, and hopefully find some interesting stuff to make this 30 days blaze by.

http://www.southbeach-diet-plan.com/food_list.html