Udpate from Barby

I need to get on here and give a shout out to my sister. She has been working really hard and it shows because she looks AMAZING! I am so proud of her. Obviously she is the stronger of the two of us and I don't think I could put the same effort into working out that she does. That's why she wanted us to do the blog, because we are so very different. 

As for me, between school, house hunting, and moving, I have totally fallen off the wagon and am almost back to the beginning. I was using yoga in the beginning to keep my stress level down but it soon became more stressful just trying to find time for it. I have also learned that I am a serious emotional eater, which is going to be a very hard habit to break . I could throw myself into a new diet and workout plan but I still have settlement process and moving to do this month and I can see that going bad quickly. So instead I am going to pick one thing each week to change. My first pick was sweets. Sweets have such a negetive effect on my body and my skin but when things get stressful, that seems to be what I turn to and the more I have, the more I want. So last week I gave up sweets. No cookies. No cake. No ice cream, soda... you get the idea. I ended up losing 6 lbs! (I don't even want to think about how much I was eating to have that large of a loss.) I ate whenever I felt hungry, I didn't count calories, I didn't even work out. I just cut out sweets and it made a huge diffference. It has really motivated me to going because for the first time since March the scale is going down, not up.

I have been doing this to long to think that just cutting out sweets is all I need to do but it was a huge confidence booster. This week I am going to start doing yoga again. My goal is two days a week. I just bought the 21 day yoga challenge but I don't think I am ready for that yet. After all, I still have a lot of packing, a trip to my parents, and settlement. I don't want to over whelm myself and undo what I just accomplished. Two days a week is what I was doing before all this chaos started and is realistic. I am confident I can find two days a week to squeeze in a yoga session.

We'll see if I can continue with no sweets and squeeze in two days of yoga. I am looking forward to the challenge!