So far...its a blessing!

If I was being honest with all of you I would have to tell you that I was scared of September 1st. I came up with the 30 mile challenge while looking at my calendar for September and thinking "30 miles in 30 days" and wondering if people would think that was just another one of "Erin's Crazy Ideas!". And honestly...I have had MANY! I would be the first to admit it.

So...as the day came closer and closer I honestly doubted whether or not I could do the 30 miles much less encourage others to do it along side of me, and I am SO BLESSED to be doing this. I have found out that not only are there people who are doing the challenge(16 to be exact) but those people have encouraged me to push myself furthur than I have been pushed.

I did great today! I walked this morning with Beth, Hollie and Alicia and was blessed to have been asked to participate in the walk. I wasn't however blessed by the mosquitos!!! And I had to cut the park time short because the baby is still too young for bug repellent.

I also walked this evening with my favorite sister in law! How encouraging it was to hear that she would join me for a jaunt around her neighborhood when I called to ask, especially when she is getting ready to back to school and teach on Tuesday! It was a great walk filled with great conversation and great sweat!!! Who would have thought that I would be so blessed!!!

I also ate SO well today! I switched to the CORE plan with Weight Watchers because I was beginning to worry that I was stressed out too much with the "points". I was eating too far under my points for the day and feeling starved when I should have been eating...so I switched.

In a nutshell when you join weight watchers you pick from two eating plans.

The most popular is FLEX where you figure out your DAILY POINTS TARGET for the day based on a survey that you complete. You can eat whatever you want as long as you don't go over your daily points. You also get 35 points per week to be used as overflow and earn activity points.

The other plan is CORE. There is a core food list(basically if God made it or it is fat free you can eat it)and you can eat as much food on the core list as it takes for you to feel satisfied. You still get your 35 points per week but those are used for anything that isn't on the core list. i.e. ice cream isn't on the core list so you would count those points and take them from your 35 for the week. You can still earn activity points and eat those if you choose.

OK...wow that was alot of info! So...because I was feeling like I was starving thinking about my points(I was thinking..."If I don't eat those 10 points then I will lose extra weight"), I switched to CORE which is all about eating healthy foods and listening to your body saying "I'm full". This is a good plan for me because I enjoy eating fruits, vegetables and lean meats anyways! It is probably a bit more expensive of a plan though...so we will see what happens.

So was it a good day for you? Sorry to be "braggy" but this was a small victory for me today. You have all blessed me!!!! THANKS SO MUCH!!! I MEAN IT!!!!