The core update...

Since you asked, Christina, I'll update.

Core is freakin' hard.

Not impossible as I had thought, just harder and much more disciplined.

What's core like and what do I like/dislike about core...

#1 - I can drink as much milk as I want. I freakin' love milk and I hardly drank it while on flex because I was never willing to spend points on milk unless it was in my cereal and even that I hardly ate.

#2 - Cereal. I love cereal and hardly ate it and this week I got to have cereal and milk everyday. Now Fiber One isn't as good as Coco Pebbles, but it's also not as bad as say dirt either...

#3 - I've had a baked potato almost every day with dinner. I'd say this is a positive and a negative, because my only side is veggies and a baked potato with spray butter. I'm a little bored, as I think Gary is too.

#4 - Keri's kick ass fruit chocolate smoothies. Totally core for the entire cup (and it's a big cup). Kinda tastes like ice cream, but NO points!! Bonus!!

#5 - I think I might be down at least 2 pounds. Now anything can change between now and Saturday, but KICK ASS, I'm down TWO pounds!! I needed this!!

Core sucks because...I feel like I can't just grab anything to eat. I've had to limit my snacking and if I want to snack it's pretty much a vegetable or a fruit.

Since I'm such a damn picky eater, I need to use my bonus points for things I eat in my everyday meals. Such as my freakin' coffee, tortilla for lunch, string cheese. I feel like I can't spend points on anything big and let's just forget about ordering pizza this week. That'd take up half of my weekly points and I can't afford that. Maybe on Saturday after my weigh in and we will see how many points I've got left.

I feel like I'm hungry all of the time. I don't know why, but the damn cucumbers don't fill me up for very long. Neither does yogurt or a banana. I feel like I'm hungry every hour now.

I KNOW that core is the healthy persons ideal way of living. There should be NO snacking. No cookies, cake, ice cream, chips, etc, etc. But THAT is life and I need to figure out a healthy balance of implementing core into my lifestyle while not feeling like I'm on a diet. Because that's how I feel this week. I'm on a diet and next week if I don't do core, I'm going to suck and I'm going to gain.

Now, I know I'm gung-ho and doing core to the maximum this week because it's week 1. I just feel like I don't have as much wiggle room (aka cheating) without feeling completely guilty.

I hope I don't scare the shit out of you, Christina. It's really not THAT bad...LOL. I'm am super excited that I'm down and that's what is keeping me motivated.

Oh yeah, and I LOVE not writing everything down. That's another huge perk of the program!!