Eric & Noelle: 21 Days

*** As a quick disclaimer, I love the BeachBody products, but I absolutely hate how sneaky they are. You buy one thing and then they automatically sign you up for all sorts of non-sense that you didn't ask for, but they expect you to pay for it. Luckily, I read all the fine print and had to spend a half hour trying to cancel everything before they had a chance to charge me, but still... so dumb***
So after having carried around 20 extra pounds of baby weight for the past 6 months, I decided to do something drastic!

I've been working out pretty regularly since Hallie was about 3 months, and I've gotten better at cutting out a lot of fat and sugar out of our meals... but that darn scale has just not budged. Literally... I've been the same weight since Hallie was 2.5 months old.

I'm not super self-conscious of it or anything, and if the scale didn't tell me I was 20 lbs heavier... I probably wouldn't believe it. 10 lbs... easy, but 20?!

So a couple of weeks ago, I was invited to a 5 day clean eating challenge. Just 5 days of no processed foods, no sugar etc. Straight up "clean" foods only.

And I loved it! I realized that as a family, we really do eat clean most of the time. We aren't big into boxed/canned food and we hardly ever get fast food (except our newly acquired tradition of getting a family size papa murphy Cowboy pizza every other weekend... whoops.)

Anyways... I really liked that clean eating group because it kept me accountable for the foods I was eating and it gave me a ton of great healthy recipes! It also made me down water, which is something that I'm terrible at. It was during that time that I realized, yes I was eating good foods... but I was eating waaay too much of them.

I so needed to get my portions under control. And thus, the 21-day fix appeared into my life. One of the ladies of the clean eating group posted about a discounted price for the 21-day-fix program. I usually automatically tune out when it comes to diets, especially diets that cost money, but this was one that I just couldn't get out of my head.

It's 21 days of clean eating, but it's portion controlled. Just what I needed. It helps you to know how much of each type of food to eat everyday and when to eat them. It also comes with a 21 day workout program that has 30 minute work outs for everyday.

I'm only on day two... but so far I love it! I love again, that I am accountable (to the group and to Eric who was very reluctant to let me spend that money :) But I think the fact that it did cost me money, makes me that much more dedicated to working super hard and not giving in to temptation.

Anyways, I never post anything like this on here, but I'm hoping that these 21 days are a turning point and get me back on track with healthy eating and exercising habits. I'm not expecting to lose a ton (or any weight for that matter) by the end of this, I'm just hoping to try and train my body to make smarter choices and eat smaller portions.