Day One of my weightloss journey

So I decided that I NEEEEEEED to loose weight. The other day I was sick and went into the Dr. office and they weighed me. I don't normally share these numbers but as I could use a starting point and some accountability I will share with you I weigh 258!!!!!! WHAT!!!?? Granted I did get pregnant with my second at 245 and during the pregnancy went up to 275. Since having her I have lost 20 lbs in the 4 months she has been here but I need to keep going! When I got married I was 175 and I thought I was FAT!! Looking at pictures I realized that I was actually pretty healthy. Before I met Daniel (my husband) I weighed about 155 (see the photo above is from our engagement session 8 years ago). My hope is to get down to 158 which would mean loosing 100 lbs!! Today I will be planning out some goals for every 10 lbs I loose I will get a reward. I will share those with you tomorrow or later this week.
   Today was my first day to use a suggestion from my sweet Aunt Teresa. It is an app on your phone my fitness pal. I will review it more as I go but so far it is pretty awesome! I was able to put in my weight and goal weight as well as how many times I plan on exercising how long etc and it calculated how many calories I need to eat everyday to loose weight which is drumroll...... 1875! So that comes out to about 625 a meal, totally doable!

  Photo above:  475 calories ( with 60 to spare for lunch or dinner); 3 egg whites, 2 tbs cheese, I slice of bacon, 1 slice of gluten free bread with 1 tbs homemade lemon curd, and a coffee that sucked up over 200 calories. 

Things I learned from this meal....
1. I was eating WAY too much! I need to drink more water to "fill me up" but even now as I type I am pretty full without drinking any water. But "normally" I wouldn't have used egg whites I would have used two hole eggs, two  pieces of bacon, and two pieces of toast to make a sandwich. In other words tooo much!
2. The way I drink my coffee has way too many calories and not sure it is worth it! Maybe I will do it on occasion but from now on I think I will do it in a coffee cup without the extra milk and cut the creamer down to maybe 2 tbs. (this girl loves so creamer! but then again that is why there is so much cream on my body!)
3. Egg whites are not that bad! I sprayed some olive oil spay onto the pan and heated it up to med. heat and just poured it onto the pan. 
4. Eating on a "salad plate" helps to make your eyes think you are full since you are eating a "whole plate". 

CONFESSION OF THE DAY: I set my alarm to go workout in the gym literally 4 doors down from our apartment and I just COULDN'T get out of bed this morning. SOOOO I am going to workout tonight and hopefully get to bed earlier so I can get up in the morning to workout. When I was my smallest my routine was to wake up every morning and go running. So I want to try to get back to that.

So that is one meal down still have lunch and dinner. I feel it in my bones that I can do this, that and I have been forewarned by my Mother that if I don't I will get diabetes and osteoporosis like she has as we are about the same weight. So I need to make changes NOW!  Wish me luck! You can follow me on instagram- jessica_monnich or you can follow my hashtag #watchthismommaloseweight.