Rules/Goals

I have been wanting to post a rules/goals post since I started this blog but never got around to it. So in no particular order, here are my personal rules and goals:

• To do the 30 day shred in 30 days. 10 days of level one (DONE), 10 days of level 2, and 10 days of level 3.
• My goal was to lose 5 lbs during the 30 day shred. I aimed low, because I am often a pessimist and didn't want to overachieve something that seemed unobtainable. But guess what? After 10 days, I'm just 2.6 lbs away from my goal with 19 more days to do it.
• My ultimate goal is to lose 30 lbs and be back at 125...but I don't think I've been that weight since high school, which was about a decade ago! So who knows if I'm even being realistic. It's just a personal goal.
  
• Maybe not so much in weight, if that 125 isn't so realistic, I want to be able to at least fit into my size 6 jeans again. (I hope I didn't give them all away.) That would mean dropping from a current pant size of 10 to a 6.
  
• No eating after 8 PM.
• Drink only water, and when that gets boring, some unsweetened hot or iced tea.
• Limit my damn carbs. I love carbs....rice, cereal, pasta, bread, all very yummy. But I have it all the time.
• Eat more fruits and veggies. I was never a veggie lover. I've always been a picky eater. So this is tough. I can do salad mixes, but all the other stuff always doesn't sound too appetizing. I can do a few, like asparagus, carrots, broccoli, bok choy, corn to name a few. Trust me, my likes on the vegetables list isn't too big.
• Sweets, oh my how I love sweets. But thankfully, I have had the strong will and determination to stay away.
  

On top of these rules and guidelines, I also plan to update my twitter account. I'm very new to this whole twitter thing, so excuse me if I just suck at it. I'll be sure to catch up quickly. I will use my twitter account mostly as a food journal. I started off with a tweet what you eat diary, but I quickly got lazy to update it every time I had a meal.