God created the heavens and the earth, light, the sky, vegetation, animals and man and woman. He also created chocolate, chicken fajita nachos from Rosa's, chili cheese french fries, cheese burgers, swiss cake rolls, chicken fried steak, loaded baked potatoes... you get the picture. He also created me and I LOVE all the previous mentioned delicacies. My whole life I have always been big. Wait, that's not true. The very end of my senior year in high school and the first couple months of my freshman year in college, I was at about 155lbs. Not bad on a 5'7 frame and curves to boot. I have tried several ways to loose weight and some worked moderately but, most of the time, it was nothing but failure. And failure is NOT something I am good at. Not in my vocabulary.
Fast forward to January 2010. I was at my heaviest and at a crossroads emotionally in my life. A guy I had been dating off and on for 3 years had come back in my life for the millionth time and I was thinking maybe it would work this time between us but, I new deep down it would not. I had joined eHarmony months before after my mom and nagged and nagged me to give it a try. After no serious bites, I quit paying for the service. Little did I know, that my profile was still active, meaning that paying members could see my pic and my profile. Since it was the beginning of the year, eHarmony of course was running a free communication special. I ended up getting an email from a 23 year old guy. Red flag! I didn't date younger guys. I wanted an older, refined man! I read his profile and liked what I read: he was a veteran in the air force, was very family oriented, was going to school at Tech. Ok, maybe I would give him a chance. We started to email back and forth and eventually went on a date, then a second date and then four months later, we were married! Dan was very different from any man I had ever dated but, it was so right. A little less than 4 months later, we found out we were expecting our first child! People always say life changes when you have a baby. Boy were they right! We welcomed Daniel Steven Minor into the world April 21, 2011 at 10:19pm and my life has never been the same. There is absolutely no way to express how much I love my son. I cant even try because there is no way. Its overwhelming. I never though I could love as much and as deeply as I love that little boy!
Once you become a parent, you begin thinking about the future and I thought hard. I thought of all the things that I wanted for my son. and the things I didn't want. Most of all, I wanted Daniel to be proud of me. To tell people, "That's my Momma" and for him to look up to me and admire me. And as shallow as it may seem, I don't ever want to embarrass him. I don't want to be a Fat Momma. Period. By chance, I saw a segment on "The Doctors" about a book called "4 Hour Body". I researched the book and ended up in a bookstore reading the book. It made sense. I could do this. Slow carb. Lots of protein. No sugar or dairy. I talked to Dan about it and he agreed, we could do this together.
So, here we are:
Day 1: Weighed myself. Ouch. Not my heaviest but, close. Nice big breakfast. Eggs will be a challenge for me since I don't really like eggs. Scrambled with homemade hot sauce is the only way. oh, and boiled. Beans and broccoli topped of breakfast. Definitely different. Surprisingly, I didn't get hungry for about 5 hours. Had a big chicken salad with salsa for the dressing and beans. Not bad either. I didn't start to get restless until about 3:30. I wanted to eat! I opted for a big glass of water with a slice of lemon and i overcame my urge!!! Dinner was a chili with lots of means and meat. Also, pretty tasty. I did kind of get hungry about 9pm but, a half cup of cottage cheese(only dairy allowed) and a glass of water got me over my hunger. End of day one and it wasn't so bad!
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