It's been a while--Day 1

Okay so it's been almost 2 months since anything was posted last. Dan and I are trying to get healthier little by little. I feel like baby steps are the only way. (at least today, b/c sometimes I feel like I have to do something radical to help this process.) I checked a book out at the library called the 3 Hour Diet. I know what you are thinking..."how can you lose anything in 3 hours?" I wasn't sure exactly the concept just from the title but I managed to speed read through it and figure out that the premise of this diet is that you eat every three hours thus maintaining a faster metabolic rate which leads to fat burning which leads to weight loss. Of course you need to watch what you eat as well as eat every three hours. I don't really feel like this is a very revolutionary diet it just makes sense. So you eat about 400 calories at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, about 100 calories for your two snack times and about a 50 calorie treat in the evening. There are free foods that you can eat anytime such as cucumbers, some condiments and various other low calorie foods. Today is day one for us. We ate a late breakfast between sick kids being late for school and a much needed run to the grocery store for breakfast food. But we had an egg, cheese & bacon sandwich with some blackberries on the side and a cup of coffee. Then at about 11:30 we had our snack of a granola bar with some water. And now we are going to eat a lean cuisine for lunch with a side salad filled with veggies! I will try to post our daily progress. We will weigh once a week for our official weight check. I am sure I will obsessively be weighing in between but I am going to try not to get on there except for on Mondays. Dinner should be interesting since I am supposed to eat out with a girlfriend tonight at the Mexican restaurant. I will try to be sensible! Until next time! Happy 3 hour eating!!