I told you they were SMALL changes...

Well, we're going to be stretching it today to find those changes, but there are three of them. My sweet mom sent me and article from her Yahoo home page and one of the tips was to eat 4 grams of fiber with every meal. Here's the article. It's good. Also, if you are not a Dr. Oz watcher, allow me to recommend it to you. I tape it every day and I am nothing less than completely inspired after a Dr. Oz show. He's GREAT!


http://health.yahoo.com/featured/78/7-easy-ways-to-lose-weight-without-starving-or-breaking-a-sweat/


SMALL STEPS FOR JANUARY 31ST

(Our little Montana cowboy's birthday)...Happy 3rd birthday, sweet Hayden!

With my job I have to sometimes jump out of bed and head right out the door. That was me today. Usually I would skip grabbing something to eat, head out, and eat when I got back or eat on the road if I started to feel hungry.
INSTEAD I took five minutes and ate a bowl of Light and Fit Vanilla Yogurt. Yummy. I felt more energetic and I wasn't rushing to quiet the hunger...I was preventing the hunger before it came. Hopefully, this woke up my body and took it out of the fasting mode, which, when you go too long, I hear, can mess up your metabolism.

When I came home to eat lunch today I thought about the four grams of fiber suggestion from the article. Normally, I would have probably thrown a frozen meal in the microwave and just had that by itself.
INSTEAD I heated up a Santa Fe Rice and Beans, chopped up half a head of Romaine, and put the meal on top of the lettuce to make a taco salad of sorts. Delish!


I normally would have a soda with my lunch and soda or wine with dinner.
INSTEAD, I chose water with lunch and milk with dinner.


I cannot wait to start posting pictures. It might be Wednesday before I can. But I at least want to do one a week. I guess I'll weigh in every Saturday since that is when I started. I'll try to post a picture every Saturday! See you tomorrow!