My Weight Loss Journey

Welcome to my weight loss journey...
The long road ahead will be a windy and difficult journey. But one I am finally willing and am ready to face.

I just wanted to thank everyone that has come to my blog, all are welcome, all are welcome! I'm having a lot of fun planning the idea, and putting everything into motion finally. It's been a long time coming. So without further ado, I present to you my newest idea. I have a number of blogs, but this is my favorite idea so far. It's also my most recent idea.

Anyhow, the idea struck me one evening while I was trying to enter to win a Blendtec and was making up some smoothies. I love my smoothies, in fact I have been making them for about 26 years now, since before I had heard them called smoothies. When I first started making them they were called yogurt drinks. So the idea struck me, what if I create a weight loss plan around my favorite thing in the world? Smoothies! I think I could use a Blendtec in every meal I make and have great success with my diet.

Unfortunately, there aren't too many smoothie diets out there. So I realized what I wanted to do. I want to create my own weight loss plan around what I drink. So I am going to work on the idea a bit more yet and call it "My Blendtec Weight Loss Journey".

My first step is to work out the plan a bit more. The plan in a nutshell will be to use my Blendtec in every meal I make. From the research I have done Blendtec does so much more than just blends. You can make smoothies, soups, you name it. I plan to make just about anything with my new Blendtec. Next step?

What will I be drinking? Zero water. I got one of those pitchers and I plan to drink as much water as I can. And then for everything else? Everything else will come from what I make with My Blendtec. Ok, the hard part is done. Now, what about my diet?

So since my focus is going to be on my fluid intake. I also don't drink much water right now. So at first diving in from 0 glasses a day to 8 is going to be tough. To compensate? As I slowly increase my water intake I will also get extra fluids by getting in lots of fruits and veggies every day to increase my water consumption through food.

I know sounds weird right? But if we are 90% water we should probably also be eating foods so that combined with the 8 glasses of water everyday so that what we eat/drink is also 90% water. I love fruits and veggies, and now that spring has sprung it's easy to find all sorts of fruits and veggies. There is a Euro Market right by my office that has the best fruit salad. It's a great mix of all perfectly ripe fruits. I hate getting a fruit salad where all the fruit is under ripe, or worse yet 90% of it is canteloupe. This place rocks, not only is it all fresh, and perfectly ripe, but it's the perfect mix. So I plan to get all my smoothie supplies there. I can just grab a fruit salad on the way home each day. And then lunch? That's going to be a bit trickier, but I think I can use it the night before to make up some soup and I can bring that to lunch. Alternately I may need to start working from home. That won't be a problem really. Dinner can be just about anything I want it to be. But with my health in mind. And of course, made with My Blendtec! I plan to listen to my body and balance out my dinner from the rest of my day. And the last step?

The exercise program of course. That I'm still working on and might still be changing that so I will be waiting until I have solidified this part before posting about my workout program. I start Monday April 18. This week has been full of real life and I don't want that to be an excuse, but sometimes the real world is more than the body can bear. Illness has reared it's ugly head but I seem to be getting better rather than getting worse so this week will be a light gym week. More to come...
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