Day 1 to my road to a healthier lifestyle

Well today started out great.  I got up and did some housework and searched the internet.   Some of the things I have decided to do to go towards being healthier and lose this extra weight.  

1- Limit the portions I eat

2-Cut down on pop, go from having pop all day to only 3 cans or 2 20 oz bottles.  Then Water the rest of the day.  

3-More exercising and acitivitie

4- Taking a one a day vitamin that enhances metabolism and gives energy

5- Accessing websites to help motivate me and give ideas.  

Two websites I am using to aide me

http://apps.facebook.com/thebiggestloserapp/?ref=ts

http://www.sparkpeople.com/

Both these sights encourage you to lose weight first one is on facebook and is the biggest loser move it to lose it challenge where you can create a team and challenge ea other.  You put in your starting weight and your goal weight and then log your workouts as you do them.  You have to do so many workouts to move up levels, I just started so I am at level 1.

The other one is more in depth you join for free, and you put in your info name, state, weight, goal.  With this one you log in what you have eaten and it will figure out calories and you also log in how much water you drink as this is one very important part of losing weight.,  You can join challenges as well as groups there are hundreds of different groups search your location where you live and I am sure you will find one for your area if not you can start one and encourage your friends and neighbors to join, who does not want to get healthier and with the support of those you know you can help each other out.  This site is great it really gives some ideas for workouts and recipes.  

When starting a workout healthier lifestyle I want to recommend to see your physician see if he recommends not doing something or ideas to help. This is a very important part, but if you are like me with no insurance to do this I highly recommend not going full speed to start out slow and work yourself up.  

For me I am gradually cutting out pop from my diet, and portioning my meals to smaller amounts,.  I am going to walk daily but start out walking a mile and work myself up to my goal of 5 miles.  

Today 5/25/11

-Starting weight-170

-have had 2 pops and 2 waters and drinking water as we type.

-had subway for lunch and a salad and sandwich for dinner.  

-Walked one lap around the Civic Center which is a mile 

-Did 10 squats, 20 situps and 10 push-ups 

-plus all the housework and picking kids up and walking in their school.  

Another thing I am going to do is try to work in exercise even when I am out and about, I am researching this more and will write more about what I find and where next time. 

I want to wish you all good luck you your road to a healthier lifestyle.  This is all for today will post more tomorrow on what I have accomplished and any tips that I find.