I started out by setting my alarm clock for 7:30 on Monday. Now you all know I’m no morning person by far but I still got up and out of bed. My plan was to walk 1.5 miles in the morning and 1.5 miles in the afternoon. It didn’t work out too well with my computer issues on Monday & Tuesday, I couldn’t get out of the house. However Tuesday I did do two walks one at 2:30 in the afternoon and one after dinner about 6:30. It killed my body doing them so close together like that. I went back to one walk per day but pushed myself a little further on each walk for a total of about 2 miles per day.

Thursday and today, I got out of bed after 12:00, I gave up on getting up in the morning. Next week is a new week and I’m really going to try to get up and out the door for my first walk of the day by 8:30.

Other than that I’ve been majorly cutting down on my eating which is a good thing but very hard because the walking works up a huge appetite for me.  My new rule was to actually eat 3 meals per day, I normally skip breakfast and lunch which in turns makes me feast at night right before bed. Also, I wouldn’t eat after 6 PM. That didn’t work out to well either.

Next week my goal is to accomplish and stick to my goals for this week, ie make them happen! : 2 – 1.5 mile walks per day; one in the morning after breakfast and one in the evening after dinner.  Eat 1 normal sized breakfast, a large lunch and small dinner. No snacking except for Saturday night and I’ll allow myself a big dinner on Sunday the only day I’ll break from walking.

Next week I also really want to quit smoking, I’ve been talking about it forever and my birthday is next Saturday so I want to quit before my 24th birthday. I’ll quit smoking on Monday, cold turkey. This ain’t gonna be fun.

I have a lot of other little things I wanted to write about, places I figured out to avoid calories and stuff but for now this is a decent synopsis.  I did buy a new domain for this, I’m thinking of setting up a new blog just for my diet stuff as I don’t want to flood this one with it. We’ll see if I get to it over the weekend 

Well, thanks for listening! Anyone else recently start a diet and been successful with it?