Hi all
I'm new to this board and thread, but not to SB. I was fairly successful with this 5 years ago til I got lazy and began not watching what I was eating. Since that time I've gained 30lbs back of my loss, but I'm still a bit below my original SB starting point.
I won't be officially starting until Tuesday, May 26th, and right now I'm figuring out my menu for the week, creating a shopping list and getting in the right mental state. I'm also figuring out how to make this menu work for my handsome lean husband who could stand to gain about 10lbs without creating two different menus.
What helped me with SB in the past was taking an entire Sunday afternoon and cooking/prepping as much of the meals for the week as possible.
I cooked all the mini-quiches for breakfast and froze them, and did the same for lunch and dinner. I also tried to have snacks all bagged and ready to go so that all I had to do each day was pull stuff out of the freezer/refrigerator and go. It was a huge help.
I'm also planning to begin walking around the block again after work each evening. That's about 1.2 miles a day. As I get back into walking, I'll be doing some exercises that I found in a book by Chantal Hobbs titled "Never Say Diet".
It's encouraging to see so much progress here - I hope to join all of you in that