Day 7 - Sometimes one week feels like forever...

I will reiterate that in the beginning it's always hard to get your momentum going. After a week I feel like I've been eating like a bird and working out forever already. This is both good and bad. Coming home and working out feels natural to me, part of my routine. This is good. The bad part is that when you feel like you've been doing it for a while and not seeing any results you tend to feel a little discouraged. I am not going to let those bad vibes kill my flow.

Over the weekend I celebrated my husband's birthday. Of course birthday's are full of yummy food and of course homemade treats. I bet you are prepared to read on that I gorged myself full of food, and fell off the wagon. Well predictable Carey, I tricked you! I stayed around my calorie goal every day (even including treats). This is SO huge for me! It's easy to fall off the wagon, and so much harder to get back on. I am on that wagon!!!

I want to share some positive insights with you blog-reader...I still eat what I want, I just eat less of those things. I think when some people think of diets they think of eating two celery sticks and a glass of water, but I enjoy all the foods that I always have, but I portion control myself.

Part of what encouraged me to start working out and watching what I eat is controlling my budget. A couple months ago (right around my birthday) I decided that it was high time I start being an adult and managing my money better. I was amazed with how into budgeting I was and still am. It's nice to see where all your money goes. I'm sure you're wondering why I am talking about budgeting on my fitness blog, but I promise you there is a correlation. Now when I think about purchasing things, I always think to myself first, "Do I want to spend $X of my $Y budget on this?" I find that when I ask myself this, I spend a lot less money on things I don't need. Now here's where the eating well comes in. I think to myself of my calorie goal as my budget. Z amount of calories. "Do I want to eat that icecream and spend Q amount of my calories of my Z total calories?" Again, the answer is usually no. This put it in a little bit better perspective for me, and I hope it makes sense to you.

Thanks for all the positive encouragement and feedback. I don't know where I would be without it!

**If anyone needs help with budgeting, let me know. I am now a budgeting wiz!**