It Has Begun...

What's this you say? A second blog post in less than a week? Why yes, yes it is!

I wanted to share one way that we are trying to get healthy this year...today is Day 1 of the Special K Challenge.  (Side note: Robert is being a super-supportive husband and doing the challenge with me, although we are both not quite convinced that he won't be starving every day lol.) 

You can read about the Special K Challenge on the back of the Special K cereals or you can go online and research it.  They have a website where you can sign up and then it generates a two week meal plan for you.  Basically, during this challenge, we will be eating our regular dinners but breakfast, lunch, and two snacks will be Special K items.  They have an incredible variety to choose from for their snack bars, meal bars, crackers, etc.  Add some fruit or a veggie with certain meals, and voila! Keep with it and we should "drop a pant size in two weeks." I really just wanted to change things up and hopefully lose a couple of pounds to get me started for the year.

Here is some more info on how we are doing this: We are still drinking our regular morning coffee, because there was NO way that was gonna go.  From breakfast through afternoon, we are following the plan, and then dinner is a normal dinner, which for us lately is mostly salads. 

One thing I did change up is in the selection of products I purchased.  I checked out the two week meal plan and it listed pretty much EVERY SINGLE cereal flavor they make. Really? There was no way I was going to buy 7 or 8 different kinds of cereal just so we could follow the plan to the T, eating some flavors only once.  So, I went by the type of food that we were to eat for each meal or snack and bought enough of a couple of flavors to get us both through the two weeks. This was probably the most challenging part of the Challenge thus far...figuring out how many boxes to buy of each thing; protein snack bars, protein meal bars, cracker chips, protein shakes, cereal, etc. I won't go in to any more detail here, but let's just say it took a bit of tallying and counting and then counting some more.

Anywho, I will do an update once we have completed the challenge. Wish us luck!