Day 1 of Forever

The whole idea behind #TheRevolution, is that it's not a diet you do for 30 days, or only until you lose your weight. Those don't work.

#TheRevolution is a lifestyle change.

Today is Day 1, and the process will never stop from here forward.

I have 3 things that I am focusing on for this transformation: food, exercise, and mindset.

Surprisingly enough, starting this blog today is causing me to falter on my new nightly routine (fail!) so I'm just going to wrap up my day and how I feel, so that I can get to sleep!

My Motivation Tools

I log all of my food and exercise on MyFitnessPal. It helps hold myself accountable.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/melfredo7111

I also have a FitBit that I like to use for accountability, and to challenge myself against my friends who have FitBits as well.
https://www.fitbit.com/user/2BK8KB

Both of these have been great motivation tools throughout my journey thus far.

Day 1

The first day is always the hardest. You can pretty much expect to not feel great the first few days of doing something like this.

For instance, I'm giving up all dairy and gluten products. Don't get me wrong, I love my cheese and bread, but it makes me feel sluggish and foggy (and fat!).

My body has reacted to not giving it dairy and gluten today, by giving me this fantastic lingering headache.

Expect something like this the first few days. After 2-3 days, it will go away, and will not come back.

I fought off the headache today by taking one Aleve this morning, and one this afternoon when the headache started to come back.

I should also mention that I suffer from chronic migraines and headaches, and they tend to come about from high intensity exercise and extreme heat, so I will most likely have these more often than someone who does not have this condition will.

I had trouble sleeping last night, but was up bright and early at 4am to have 1/2 of my breakfast before my workout at the gym. Today was strength training and cardio.

Got ready for work at the gym, then it was just over 9 hours of constant focus on a computer screen (yay for massive amounts of work because I was on vacation for 10 days before today!).

My biggest complaint from today was the lingering headache, which should be gone tomorrow.

I didn't have massive amounts of energy, but probably just what I needed to get through my day. I am tired now.

One thing I really enjoyed today that I didn't think I would was the boneless skinless chicken thigh I had for lunch today.

I'm also really enjoying the night-time green tea that is making me sleepy!

I'm afraid if I continue on, my post will only become more incohesive. Tomorrow will be better, I promise.

I'm off to finish this tea, stretch and have some meditation time.

XOXOXO