“Nuevo” Plan
Because saying it in Spanish makes it seem less like 100th nuevo plan I’ve come up with.
I’m mini-Atkins-ing it this week. Mini because I’m not setting myself up for failure by assuming I can easily Atkins through Thanksgiving at my in-laws. But, with luck I’ll at least be in enough of an Atkins mindset to take it easy on the carbs for once.
So, 3 days of the 2-week part of Atkins, then Thanksgiving, then I’ll Atkins for real until Christmas with my family, then Atkins until I have my diet & exercise under my own control (with holiday & other exceptions). It works, I know it works, it’s just so dern hard to get started with Atkins &, apparently, too dern easy to stop.
But I need a kickstart here, so it’ll provide that at the very least.
Figure I want/need to lose about 60 pounds before a week-long vacation with a ton of grad school friends in the Wisconsin Dells. I picture me by the pool looking younger & healthier than ever, me & hubby riding our bikes everywhere, me & the gang hiking like crazy, and the best overall summer of my life. Big dreams. Now to go about getting there. Step one is Atkins. Step 2 is exercise. Step 3 is to repeat steps 1 & 2 over and over again.
XOXO
Hey, glad to see you back! And I love the idea of writing the nuevo plan in Spanish. Makes it seem exotic
I’m going to steal your Atkins approach to get through Thanksgiving. Even though nothing will be low-cal, I’m going to focus on turkey and veggies. We can do this.