Day Before Thanksgiving

It's the day before Thanksgiving, which means it's the start of holiday dinners and eating sweets and over-stuffing your belly while surrounding yourself with family and friends.  This year is going to be different for me.  My grandpa won't be here again this year, my diet has changed to vegan and my family won't see me this Thanksgiving because of work schedules.  You might say that this year would be stressful, but I see the positive in it.  I've been walking for a week and a day.  This is my second week and I've lost 3lbs already (and I'm PMSing)!  That's impressive and it makes me proud to say that I actually worked for it.  There have been times where I would diet and not eat and lose weight but I gained it all back.  That's not work at all.

I was looking up what I could buy with my 100 bucks I won.  I wanted to get some vegan make-up, new walking shoes and a yoga dvd but I quickly found out that most of my money would be spent on 1 thing.  Major bummer.  Maybe I'll add it to my Christmas list. >;-P

Anyway, to update on my walking.  I did 3 1/2 hours last week.  Got tied up Monday and Tuesday but went for 30 minutes tonight.  I am PMSing and have been busy and really tired, but atleast I did a half hour tonight instead of nothing.  I need to do 4 1/2 hours for the rest of the week.  I want my goal to be 5 hours of exercise every week.  I already took my two days off Monday and Tuesday so I cannot slack this week.  I have noticed that my body is starting to crave it.  So that's good.  It's just walking, but it's more than what I've been doing.  I think that I may not weigh myself until I've done it for a month.  If I continue to weigh myself and I gain a pound or two, I'll probably get discouraged and stop.  I'm afraid of falling off the wagon if I get too excited that I lost 3lbs and then start eating all kinds of sweets which is what I did the night I found out I lost a pound.  I ate three crappy meals.  I think it was pancakes for breakfast, mac n cheese for lunch and then taco bell for dinner.  Terrible, terrible food choices.

I have an idea about the holidays.  If I only eat the holiday meal and not over-stuff myself and eat whatever I want within moderation, I can work extra hard those weeks in exercise.  No use in stressing out over it.  It's just food.  If I stress about it, that adds extra weight.  Noooo thank you!

To make a long story short:
The holidays will not beat me.  The food will not beat me.  The weight will not beat me.  Stress will not beat me!