March March Baby......

Hello March! So as of today I am 17 days in on my challenge and i'm doing good, as I said before i'm not going to measure myself until I hit day 30 but I can definitely tell a difference in the way my clothes are fitting which has been nice, but of course the only downside is that my favorite and only pair of Miss Me jeans are starting to get a little baggy which means I have to constantly wash and dry them to get them to shrink a bit but of course by the end of the day they've stretched out again :( But of course its a small price to pay and i'm sure I can sell them on eBay and then just buy a new pair. Thankfully I have my AE jeans in sizes 4, 6, and 8 so hopefully it'll be an easy transition. Anyways back to the topic at hand, on top of finishing my challenges, starting my new workout and doing my running challenge on Nike I am also going to be drastically changing my dietary habit this month. I was planning on starting today but well I woke up this morning and literally forgot what day it was and that it was a new month and I ended up having a soda and club sandwhich with my friend up at OHSU today which means it will start tomorrow. So what is the change in my eating habits you ask? Well first off i'm going to start counting calories again, I did it awhile back and I did pretty good with the weekdays but when the weekends came I used them as cheat days and well all the weight I lost from calorie counting just came back on plus some. Since I am going to be doing weight training 3x a week and running 2x a week (or more) i've determined that 1500 calories a day is the goal I am going for. I was doing 1200 the last time I started doing it but I wasn't working out, and obviously if I feel like my I need to up my calories I will do so but this is a starting point. Besides counting calories i've also decided to seriously restructure my diet, i'm doing better than I have been in the past but there is always room for improvement, I've decided to start The Perfect 10 Diet i've told you guys about in the past, so for the first 3 weeks I will not be eating any grains such a bread, pasta, cereals...you get the idea, I also will no longer be drinking soda and since I rarely and I mean rarely drink alcohol i'm not worried about that not being allowed. I have 4 months left to lower my cholesterol before i'm rechecked in June and well I want to be thin and fit before I turn 30, before summer would be even better but there is no quick fix to become toned and fabulous and although i'm inching closer to my goal weight I feel like i'm not going as fast as I could be. I've got the fitness bug and i'm itching to get more and more accomplished. I can't wait to see how I look and feel at 90 days. Now until my gym membership is unfrozen i'll be doing my workouts at home but either way i've made sure that my workout routine can be done at the gym or at home and i'm planning on making all of my workouts that way so if I don't feel like driving all the way to the gym or i'm not in the area I can easily do it as soon as I get home. Maybe i'm so much more motivated because I really want a new Triangl bathing suit that costs $79 each and I have atleast 2 minimum colors I want. Idk lol,  either way i've found my motivation and even though there has been days where i'm tired or frustrated or whatever and I don't want to do my challenges i've sucked it up and i've done it. Lets face it suck it up now and I won't have to suck it in later! i'm kind of stoked because by eliminating grains and soda etc for 3 weeks I will lose up 14lbs in 21 days and well that puts me over my first goal of 20lbs! It would actually put me at approximately 26-28lb loss which would be absolutely fantastic. So ready.....set.....GO!!!