A new me!

Ok....so as the day has gone on here I have been doing the whole "eating without thinking" thing. It's gotta stop! I have a few more pounds to lose after having Cole. I believe to be at my before weight I have about 8 or so lbs. to lose. I would like to get back to that weight and get back into shape. I have one more week until my 6 wk. check up with the Dr. and hopefully will get the green light to start exercising again. I am destined to get back into shape and look good because so many people have said to say good bye to my body and what not after having Cole. I'm all set and ready to prove them all WRONG! Hopefully by writing this it will keep me motivated since I've shared the notion with whoever decides to read this. So I will need your help to keep me on track. I know I can't start working out quite yet, but I can start eating better. As hard as this is going to be for me, I need to give up candy (yes including my beloved Mike and Ikes...so sad). I don't really want to follow a "diet" because I'm such a picky eater. I'm just going to try and cut out most sugar (again not going to be easy for me) and eat more veggies (I don't have an issue eating my fruit, yum!). If anyone has any tips or recipes (simple please) please feel free to share with me. I get bored easily, so variety is good for me. I haven't been having too much for pop lately, but I am going to cut it out completely. I however can't cut out my new discovery, coffee. However I don't drink too much, just enough to get me going in the morning and maybe 1/2 cup mid day to keep me going.

Now once I get the green light to exercise I want to get back into running. I have pictures from 2005 (5 yrs ago already!) when we were in Hawaii and I was in what I believe the best shape. I would love to get back to that. I was at that time running only about 2 1/2 miles 5 times a week. Now then I had more time to do so, but with the nicer weather I can take Cole with me if need be. Unfortunetly I won't be joining a gym to help with variety, but I will just have to find different paths around here that I can go on.

Ok now enough of this babble and let it start tomorrow...wish me luck!
Now I'm going to go and eat my last box of Mike and Ikes I have in the house here!