After All<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\nThe truth is, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t planning on posting about our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s get healthier!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dramas, because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so been there, done that, both on this blog and in the rest of the world. In fact, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a funny story. In December, a colleague told me about a diet she and her husband were currently on, amid all the holiday temptations. When I complimented her strength, she explained that, among other things, she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to wait to diet until January, and thus become, as she put it, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153one of those people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Appropriately, I took the opportunity to tell her then that I had plans to become \u00e2\u20ac\u0153one of those people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m kind that way.<\/p>\n
And now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m one of those people<\/i>. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so bourgeois.<\/p>\n
There are those who would say that a health and diet post for the new year is timely thinking on the part of the An Island Mom staff.<\/p>\n
Maybe.<\/p>\n
But the truth is that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m posting on this for one reason, and one reason only. If I make it public, my odds of success go up. Seriously. In my other life, the one where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a three- dimensional person that walks the earth, failure just means I keep wearing my more generously sized clothes and live in the land of denial and good chocolate.<\/p>\n
But in this life, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to have to post an update or two, thus revealing my success or lack thereof.<\/p>\n
So basically, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m using y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all to increase my odds of success. I appreciate your assistance in this matter.<\/p>\n
Except when I want chocolate.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
It bears repeating that I am anything but a health expert, so do not follow any of my advice. My success rate is laughable. But here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done.<\/p>\n
In true NHR form, we began with some pre-diet food. Last time, I made a cheesecake for the pre-diet diet. This time, I made molten lava cake which I topped with ice cream. I also dumped M&Ms in a large bowl of Chex Mix, mixed it up, and ate the whole bowl for breakfast<\/i>. LCB focused his efforts more on the red meat food group. I forgot to take pre-diet food pictures this time, so use your imagination here.<\/p>\n
The day the non-fun portion of the NHR began, we painfully shifted gears. On the couch-avoidance front, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing a half hour to an hour of cardio work every day, as well as weights, crunches, and lunge-like movements on an every-other-day schedule. In an exciting development, LCB took his first walk for non-transportation purposes today. Diet-wise, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve cut out some carbs, most sugar, and all chocolate (again, the Swiss Miss beverage is discounted) while adding fruits, veggies, and proteins. Yes, we calorie count.<\/p>\n
As of press time, LCB has pulled his usual antics and has lost about ten pounds in just under a week. (Yes, I know some say this is not scientifically possible. I guess we got ourselves a miracle husband.) (This is also why, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve mentioned before, when we do these things, that man is not my friend.) Yours truly, after gaining two pounds the second day (I heart water weight!), has now lost those two pounds. I may have lost an additional pound, depending on whether or not the strategic placement of one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feet on the scale actually works or not. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always so inspiring when this happens, after several days of serious calorie reduction, better food choices, and increased exercise.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll keep you posted. Demotivation starts here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had chocolate for almost seven days now. Okay, technically, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not true. I did have Swiss Miss diet hot chocolate, but chocolate connoisseurs know that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pseudo-chocolate. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s totally pseudo. Why, you ask? In short, LCB and I have resurrected the New Health Regime. We are officially dieting and exercising in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1648,1651,1649,1650,1646,1647],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-demotivationing-weight-loss-plans","tag-dieting-on-an-island-seriously","tag-dieting-with-your-husband","tag-exercising-with-your-husband","tag-new-years-diets","tag-new-years-health-resolutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}