And So It Begins

March 18th I began a fitness weight loss challenge. Over this past weekend, I got my meal plan and did all my shopping. I have the first day done and I have learned something about this challenge. It is going to be tough. Tougher than I thought it would be. This is what I ate yesterday:

Breakfast
.5 cup All Bran cereal
.5 cup skim milk
1 scoop protein powder mixed with water

Am Snack
3 rice cakes
1 scoop protein powder mixed with water

Lunch
1 cup salad mix
50 grams of boneless skinless chicken breast (cooked with my new George Foreman Grill!)
3 tbsp of Walden Farms zero calorie dressing

Pm Snack
50 grams of Swai Fillet (white fish)
1 tbsp fat free Greek yogurt
2 tbsp salsa (fresh)
1 cup raw spinach
1 tortilla

Dinner
50 grams of chicken breast
1 cup steamed broccoli

Bedtime Snack
1tbsp all natural peanut butter
1scoop protein powder mixed with water

The only thing not on here is the 3 cups of plain green tea and 100oz of water I drank. If its not on here, I didn't use it. No salt, no cooking spray or other oil, and very little fat. Going from what I was eating, this is nothing. It totaled about 1293 calories. It did help me to realize how much I have actually been eating. Probably double this. Maybe that has something to do with all the weight gain......

The other task I had to do this weekend was meet with the trainer and have all my measurements taken. That was terrible. Luckily she kept all that so I don't have to look at it. I also had to weigh in. Another traumatic event. And send in a picture to her for whatever advertising they will be doing when this is done. She told me to go ahead and put my BIKINI on and send it to her. I told her I don't own a bikini, all the while thinking, can't she see me? I mean, what in the heck would I be doing with a bikini? Maybe as some kind of head scarf....

She settled on me wearing just my sports bra and some old exercise shorts I have had for probably 15 years. It was a pathetic sight. I sent it in very reluctantly. My instinct was to immediately delete that picture. But I stopped myself. I think at the end of all this, assuming I can stick with it, I will appreciate how far I have come. I am still debating on whether or not to post that picture. It's pretty terrible.

There were a lot of numbers taken, but the only one I care about is this one:

Starting weight 194.4

This is a big number to me. I will get the others from my trainer and post those soon. But the weight is the number that sticks with me. It's just a starting point, right? Well it's day two. I am going to keep it going. I will keep you posted :)