Wednesday (2/8/06)

So my plan is to work out at the gym 5 days a week. Today I had some other commitments so it was not one of my gym days. I’m keeping a food journal and planning smart choices for food. One of the changes that really is making a huge difference is the gallon of water a day. It’s helping me cut back my coffee. I’m one of those mom’s who makes a pot of coffee in the morning and sometimes my husband takes a cup before he leaves for work. Sometimes he doesn’t, yet by mid-morning I’m turning off an empty coffee pot! No wonder I’m so hyper. It takes me a while to wake up in the morning and the coffee really helps, but it’s all the creamer and sweetner that I add to it that really add up. I counted out how much creamer I usually use and found that I normally put in 50-80 calories of creamer into one cup of coffee. Multiply that over at least 4-5 cups of coffee and you’ve got something that adds up quickly. But I’m finding that with starting the day by drinking 20oz. of water before I drink my first cup of coffee helps so much that all I usually want is that first cup! One bad habit down and 10,000 more to go!