One Month Down, Eleven More to Go

    I should have actually written this 7 days ago but my life is crazy and I just have not had time.  My apologies.  I successfully completed my first whole month 100% on plan.  No lie the first week was tough.  I was hit by all kind of withdrawal systems but I powered through and the the next few weeks went much better.  Not weighing myself was tougher than I though it would be but I resisted and I am glad that I did.  My official weight loss for the month is 10 pounds!  I also measured myself and I lost an inch on almost every part of my body except my waist where I lost two!  WooHoo!  I am feeling very good about those results.  I did no exercising the first week but amped up my efforts to get my 10,000 steps daily and I did 21 days out of January.  My best day was 14,937 steps!  I hope to continue that this month but do even better.  I love eating the THM way, there is so much good food and I'm rarely hungry.  I get to eat chocolate every day and that makes me happy.  I do have those rough times on occasion where I feel frustrated and just want to grab a bag of chips and a Dr Pepper but thankfully those moments are in the minority.  I am still hoping fervently that doing this for a solid year will result in a change of desire and tastes for me.  Making this commitment and taking it as seriously as I have has helped me tremendously.  There are several times that I could have cheated and rationalized it but I did not because I committed to NO cheats and I do not want to fail my challenge.  This first week of February has been tough on me as I have been feeling a little under the weather and that causes me to want to cut corners and just slack off but I'm trying hard not to.  So there is my update.  Powering on!